Letter to Friedrich Engels, November 27, 1882

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 27 November 1882


First published in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 4, Stuttgart, 1913
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 46


MARX TO ENGELS

IN LONDON

[Ventnor,] 27 November 1882

DEAR FRED,

Enclosed Lafargue's letter. In my note to you[1] I had already given vent in advance to my vexation over Lafargue's and Guesde's foolish-ness, and thus discounted it. Inconceivable that anyone at the head of a movement could place everything at risk in so frivolous, to put it bluntly, in so inane a way—pour le roi de Prusse[2] ! Lafargue's article on the spellbound Ministry of Finance was very well done.[3]

As regards the Paris 'syndicates', I know from impartial reports I received from Paris (while staying at Argenteuil) that the said syndicates are a great deal worse, if such a thing be possible, than the London TRADES UNIONS.

Your verification of the role of the second power when energy is transmitted with change of form is very pretty and I congratulate you on it.

Salut.

Moor

  1. ↑ See this volume, pp. 374-76.
  2. ↑ for the King of Prussia, i.e. for nothing
  3. ↑ See this volume, p. 384.