Letter to Karl Kautsky, March 13, 1895

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 13 March 1895


First published in: Aus der Frühzeit des Marxismus. Engels Briefwechsel mit Kautsky, Prag, 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

[London,] 13 March 1895

Dear Baron,

Just to inform you in all haste that Plekhanov has misread or misun- derstood my letter. I have no intention whatsoever of concerning myself with Loria, and have written to tell Plekhanov 25 that he should not allow himself to be put off. Loria has written a reply to the preface[1] and only if absolutely necessary shall I write a few words in return, but that is all. Everything the chap has published has been sent me from Rome.

I should be grateful if you were to send me Platter's thing 541—I have already got W. Sombart's—it is good.[2] I'm glad you should have used it as an excuse to stave off Enrico Ferri since the man's quite incapable of writing about Volume II I.

My preface has come out in Italian and is said to have made quite an impact. 467

Yours,

F.E.

  1. ↑ Loria, 'L' opera postuma di Carlo Marx'. In: Nuova Antologia, Anno XXX, fascicolo II I —1 febbraio 1895
  2. ↑ W. Sombart, 'Zur Kritik des ökonomischen Systems von Karl Marx'. In: Archiv für soziale Gesetzgebung und Statistik. Bd. 7, H. 4