Letter to Eduard Fischel, May 8, 1860

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 8 May 1860


First published in the language of the original (German) and in Russian in the journal Voprosy istorii KPSS, No. 3, Moscow, 1959
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 41


MARX TO EDUARD FISCHEL

IN BERLIN

[London,] 8 May 1860

Dear Sir,

Many thanks for your letter and for your trouble. I shall shortly be sending you a letter from little Faucher on the subject of Mayer.[1]

As for the proposed newspaper, I would not be averse to becoming involved in it.[2] Only I would first have to know something more about its establishment, political outlook, etc. As regards foreign policy (and this, as from England, would no doubt be the main thing), I believe that we are in substantial agreement. On the other hand, there might well be considerable differences of opinion in regard to internal policy. The main thing, of course, is to know what attitude the newspaper intends to adopt in Prussia. If it eschews an emphatically one-sided party viewpoint, I should say that, at the present time, when Germany is in danger, people of varying political views could work together against foreign foes, without making any mutual concessions.

Yours very truly,

K. Marx

  1. ↑ See this volume, pp. 131 32.
  2. ↑ On 2 May 1860, the German journalist Eduard Fischel, a supporter of David Urquhart, the English conservative political writer, invited Marx to contribute to the Deutsche Zeitung, which was to be published, with Fischel's participation, in Berlin. For this, see Marx's letters to Fischel of 8 May and 1 June 1860 (this volume, pp. 136-37 and 143-44). For Marx's view of Fischel and the Urquhartites in general, see his letter to Lassalle of 2 June 1860 (this volume, pp. 152-55).