(London,] 24 Jury 1869 

Dear Frep, 

I can only write you a few lines today. The thing is in full 
suppuration, so very painful, but will also soon be over. The 
swilling of arsenic will have to begin again. 

This morning I received the enclosed screed from Liebknecht. 
Which is the more extraordinary, the stupid impudence or the 
impudent stupidity? This honest fellow regards official lies, such as 
that about non-existent resolutions of the General Council, as 
permissible in his own mouth, but as highly reprehensible in 
Schweitzer’s. And why did he achieve a_ reconciliation with 
Schweitzer the Monster in Lausanne? And his theory of action! 
This consists of giving Mr Wilhelm the right to make ‘arbitrary’ 
use of my name and that of the General Council wherever he 
considers appropriate. And the courage of this honest fellow! He 
claims to be against Lassalle, and so takes the part of the ‘true’ 
Lassalleans against the ‘false’ Lassalleans! Bracke, his man, after all 
accuses Schweitzer of declaring Lassalle’s theory of state credit to 
be simply an agitational tool, and of not believing in panacea. He 
had involved me in ‘battles’! In ‘scandals’, I wrote to him.*% 

Salut. 

404 

Your 
K. M. 

I regret that I did not know the book Die Werkzeuge und Waffen, 
thre Entstehung und Ausbildung, von Dr Gustav Klemm, 1858, before 

a F, Engels, Karl Marx. See this volume, p. 325. 

the publication of my first volume.* What I indicated in the section 
‘Labour Process’ and later ‘Division of Labour’ is here proved 
with abundant material.