Manchester, 29 April 1870 

Dear Moor, 

I wrote immediately to Borkheim,” addressed to 10 Brunswick 
Gardens, Kensington W.? If that is not correct, be so good as to 
notify him. 

I would, in fact, have been glad to come over to see Schapper, 
and would still do so, had not your letter led me to assume he was 
already dead. There was always something so elementally rev- 
olutionary about him, and even if the poor fellow.has to go 
sometime, I am pleased at least that he is behaving so finely to the 
end. If, as the result of the pleurisy, he has contracted 
consumption, then there is nothing to be done, and it will happen 
very quickly. 

Bakunin’s letter is really very naive.”’ What hard luck for the 
world, were it not a ghastly lie, if there were 40,000 revolutionary 
students in Russia, without a proletariat or even a revolutionary 

« See this volume, p. 500. - > Ibid., p. 496. 

peasantry behind them, and with any career ahead of them except 
the dilemma: Siberia, or emigration to Western Europe. If there 
were anything that could ruin the West European movement, it 
would be the importation of these 40,000+* educated, ambitious, 
hungry Russian nihilists; all of them officer cadets without an 
army, which we should provide them; a marvellous piece of 
impertinence that, in order to bring unity to the European 
proletariat, it must be commanded in Russian! Yet however 
greatly Bakunin exaggerates, it is as clear as day that the danger 
exists. Castaa Pycb” will spit out a certain number of these 
‘careerless’ Russians every year, and, with the excuse of the 
principe international, they will creep in everywhere amongst the 
workers, swindle their way into leading roles, carry their private 
intrigues and brawls—unavoidable amongst the Russians—into 
the sections, and then the Genera. Councit will have its work cut 
out. It has already struck me that Utine has already found a way 
to obtain a position with the Genevans. And these Russians moan 
that, back at home, all positions are occupied by Germans! 

I have had it out in all friendship with Wilhelm on various 
points, both about his previous attitude and also about his present 
attitude in the Reichstag. Bonhorst was arrested in Eschweiler 
because he lacked legitimation papers, after the Reichstag had 
passed the Passport Abolition Law, yet Monsieur Liebknecht 
misses the chance to interpellate the government about flagrant 
illegality and to force it to confess that such laws are in no way 
intended to apply to workers. And the jackasses expect the 
workers to re-elect them. Incidentally, I have also written to 
Bracke, who approached me for money for the ‘Party’, saying how 
necessary it is that they should nominate worker candidates and 
force them through everywhere.° Wilhelm is capable of saying that 
this is not necessary at all. 

The Spanish papers and the Flag‘—received with thanks. When 
I travelled past Majorca in 1849 I would not have dreamed that, 
in 20 years, we would have a paper‘ there. At the time that hole 
was regarded as a Corsican wilderness. 

Pigott remains the same ambiguous figure. In Ireland they must 
have a ‘Republic’, but the French should remain under Bonaparte. 
They will pass over my book‘ in silence when it appears, just as 
they do now with the Irish articles in the Marseillaise 

a more or less - & Holy Russia - © See this volume, p. 499. - 4 The Flag of Ireland (see 
this volume, p. 497) -¢ El Obrero-' F. Engels, The History of Ireland - 8 Jenny 
Marx’s articles on the Irish question.