Letter to Hermann Jung, September 14, 1868

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 14 September 1868


First published in: G. Jaeckh, Die Internationale, Leipzig, 1904
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 43


MARX TO HERMANN JUNG

IN LONDON

London, 14 September 1868

Dear Jung,

The Times today carries Eccarius' reports of the 9th and 10th.[1]

In the debate on machinery, he makes Lessner's SPEECH worse; it was much better in The Daily News. Lessner quoted my book,[2] as you have seen in The Daily News.[3] Eccarius suppresses the quotation.

Yet even better. In The Daily News the resolution about machines, etc., was noted as a proposal from the GENERAL COUNCIL. In The Times, Mr Eccarius converts this into his personal proposal.

This is a point on which you must collar him. His egotism needs a Cuff TO SET HIM RIGHT AGAIN.

Yours

K. M.

  1. ↑ [J. G. Eccarius,] 'The International Working Men's Congress. (From a Correspondent)', The Times, No. 26229, 14 September 1868 (see also Note 136).
  2. ↑ the first volume of Capital
  3. ↑ 'The International Working Men's Congress. From Our Special Correspondent. Brussels, Sept. 9', The Daily News, 11 September 1868.