Letter to Peter Imandt, March 30, 1871

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 30 March 1871


First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 33, Moscow, 1964
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 44


MARX TO PETER IMANDT

IN DUNDEE

[London,] 30 March 1871

Dear Imandt,

The 'letter' is a product of that trashy Paris paper, the Paris-Journal, in its issues of 14 and 19 March. 71 A statement from me in reply appeared in The Times on 22 March (a notice in small print just after the leading articles).[1] That lousy paper has direct connections with the Prussian police. Its rédacteur en chef,[2] the notorious Henri de Pêne, received two bullets in his body as a reward for his participation in the 'peaceable' procession of the parti de l'ordre.

Regards to Bourbaki junior.[3]

Curiously enough the entire reactionary press in France printed the pseudo-letter. To give it more spice, the Paris-Journal published it under the high-faluting title: Le Grand Chef (translation of the Stieberian 'Hauptchef'6) de L'Internationale'. Salut

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ K. Marx and F. Engels, 'To the Editor of The Times'.
  2. ↑ editor in chief
  3. ↑ Robert Imandt