Letter to Karl Kautsky, February 13, 1894

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 13 February 1894


First published in Aus der Frühzeit des Marxismus. Engels Briefwechsel mit Kautsky, Prague, 1935
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 50


ENGELS TO KARL KAUTSKY

IN STUTTGART

[Eastbourne], 13 February 1894

Dear Baron,

Am back in Eastbourne 333 again because of my usual lame leg, but it's already on the mend. Shall remain here until at least the 23rd of this month; if you should write, the address will be 28, Marine Parade, Eastbourne. Victor has snatched the Critica Sociale article away from under your nose and is translating it. 334 At the moment I've got no time at all since I am having to proof correct the whole of the rest of Volume III[1] and page proofs rain down on me as inexorably as blows in the Cameroons. 335

Ask Dietz to send the 8 marks with the next larger consignment to Vienna.

282

I do not consider the term 'communism' suitable for general use today; rather it should be reserved for cases in which a more exact description is required, and even then it would call for an explanatory note, having virtually fallen out of use for the past thirty years. 336

At the moment I consider Burns to be better and Jaurès to be less important than commonly made out to be.

Warm regards from one household to the other.

Yours,

F.E.

  1. ↑ of Capital