[London,] 7 December 1867 

Dear Kugelmann, 

If there were 6 people of your calibre in Germany, we should 
already have overcome the resistance of the mass of philistines and 
the conspiration de silence of the experts and the riff-raff of the 
press, at least to the extent that serious discussion would have 

begun. Mais il faut attendre!? That phrase contains the entire secret 
of Russian policy. 

a [G. P.] Cluseret, ‘Mentana’, Le Courrier frangais, No. 173, 7 December 1867. - > But 
we shall have to wait and see! 

I enclose a letter (which you will be so kind as to return to me) 
from a German-Russian worker’ (tanner).*? Engels rightly ob- 
serves that the autodidactic philosophy—pursued by workers 
themselves—has made great progress in this tanner, when 
compared with the cobbler Jakob Bohme, ditto that none but the 
‘German’ worker is capable of such cerebral production.? 

Borkheim asked me yesterday who wrote the article in the 
Zukunft‘ (he subscribes to the paper). He said it must originate 
from our side as you had sent him a copy. I said I did not know. 
N.B.! One must not let others see through one’s game! 

Heartiest thanks to your good wife’ for the trouble she has 
taken in copying the letters. You should not exploit her so for 
‘surplus labour’. 

As I told you, if I am not mistaken, Bucher has actually asked 
me himself to become economic correspondent for the ‘Koniglich 
PreuPische Staats-Zeitung.* So you see, if I wished to avail myself of 
such sources, I could do so without the mediation of any third 
party.>°9 

I am suffering from the same illness as before. Nothing 
dangerous to it, but a nuisance. 

With best compliments to your good wife and Franzchen.' 

Yours 
K. Marx