{London,] 15 September 1853 

I have today received the latest number of the Reform 
containing your piece from Quebec,’ and Kellner’s apology of the 
self-same Poesche,” whose insipid wou.p-Be jokes about the ‘cranky’ 
proponents of the ‘class struggle’* appeared in the Neu-England- 
Zeitung of 3 September, which reached me at the same time. You 
started sending me extra copies of the Reform at the very time I 
began to get them again regularly; on the other hand, I haven’t 
been receiving the Tribune regularly and it is important that I 
should. For example, I haven’t got the article in which I refer to 
the exchange of diplomatic notes on Denmark,* or the article in 
which I characterise the relationships of landed property’~. 

I think it is time you made a fresh start in the polemic and 
picked a few holes in the jejune arguments of Goepp-Poesche, 
discoverers of the material view though their materialism is that of 
the man-in-the-street. Our opponents are becoming uppish, 
something which could not have happened at least in the days of 
the Neue Rheinische Zeitung. That pedant Schlager, who more or 
{less} took to his heels at the time of the “48 revolution and 
hawked his genius in America, still regularly sends me his N.-E.-Z., 
no doubt in order to demonstrate ad oculos' what fine fellows they 
are. Has there ever before been a rag in which stupidity and 
vanity were so nicely coupled with presumption? 

Kellner is too much of a slow-coach, he seems unable to 
understand that polemics are essential to any journal as long as it 

a [A. Cluss,} ‘White Mountains (Summit-House), 21 August 1853’, Die Reform, 
No. 44, 31 August 1853. - > In the article ‘Die neue Welt’ published in the same 
issue of Die Reform G. T. Kellner gave a review of The New Rome. The United States 
of the World by Th. Poesche and Ch. Goepp. - © Th. Poesche, ‘Die“Klassenkamp- 
fer”’- 4 K. Marx, ‘In the House of Commons.—The Press on the Eastern 
Question.—The Czar’s Manifesto.— Denmark’, - © K. Marx, ‘The War Question.— 
Doings of Parliament.—India’. - § unmistakably 

has to struggle. On top of that he has an unfortunate proclivity 
always to praise his enemies 2 days before they regale him with 
kicks. Thus Heinzen and Poesche; the latter, by the by, used his 
sorry article on the circulation of money to convey the sort of 
information one gets from encyclopedias...*”° 

At any rate I find that things have begun to move sooner than I 
should have liked (I think the commercial pownra.t will begin in the 
spring as in 1847). I had always hoped that, before that happened, 
I might somehow contrive to withdraw into solitude for a few 
months and work at my Economy.” It seems that this isn’t to be. I 
find perpetual hackwork for the newspapers tiresome. It is 
time-consuming, distracting and, in the end, amounts to very little. 
However independent one may think oneself, one is tied to the 
newspaper and its readers, especially when, like myself, one is paid 
in cash. Purely learned work is something totally different, and the 
honour of figuring beside an A.P.C., a LAby CORRESPONDENT and an 
archbishop is certainly not to be envied. 

Carl Wilh. Klein (of Solingen, a working man) has asked me to 
put you in touch with him. His address is—-—-—He’s a capable 
chap. He set up a Working Men’s Association and, from what he tells 
me in his letter, the Gradaus has come under its influence.*** Pieper 
writes to him from here and, if you can possibly find the time, you 
must give him support from Washington. 

Papa Blind is continuing his”... articles with much fervour in the 
N.-E.-Z. and congratulates himself and his editor and vice versa on 
the unexampled achievements which cannot fail to inspire respect 
in Briggemann of the Kélnische Zeitung. 

Only a few lines today. Events there have been none, if you 
except the onset of cholera morbus in London: 

Your 
K. M.