[London,] 15 September 1860 

Dear Lacaatle, 

I am writing very briefly to make sure this note still finds you. 

1. I wrote to Freiligrath (day before yesterday)** about an 
answer to your question.*’4 None arrived.¢ Answering such 
questions conflicts, of course, with his duty to his office. 

2. As regards the book on Vogt*: After trying this, that and the 
other, I have come to the conclusion that printing in London is the 

* See this volume, p. 189. - » inanity -  Bürgers (see this volume, p. 189). - 4 See this 
volume, p. 195. - © K. Marx, Herr Vogt. 

only possibility. By the by, deliberately written so as not to be 
confiscable. Although uot printable in Berlin, it would, like any 
other book, be distributed in Germany from Leipzig; in Switzer- 
land, Belgium, America direct from here. Engels is paying for one 
share, I for another. But the thing’s expensive since a sheet costs 
4'/, pounds sterling over here. You must contribute a share if you 
can. I have optimistically arranged for printing to begin not later 
_than next week. If the money has not been collected, nothing will 
be lost, save the sum to be paid for what has already been printed. 

3. Garibaldi shared my opinion of Bonaparte’s mission,* just as 
Mazzini did. I have actually seen letters of Garibaldi’s on this 
score. However, the past is no longer of any concern. As soon as 
Garibaldi has divested the Italian cause of Bonaparte (and such is 
his object, expressly stated in a letter he wrote to an English 
acquaintance of mine, Green),” all disputes within the revolutionary 
party will cease. But what is important now is that we should come 
to an agreement on a programme. If you would care to make a 
brouilion,© Engels, Wolff and I will agree possible modifications 
with you. The time is approaching when our ‘small’ if, in a certain 
sense, ‘powerful party’ (inasmuch as the others do not know what 
they want, or do not want what they know) must devise its plan of 
campaign. That we in particular (here in England) should adopt a 
national stance seems to me tactically correct—quite apart from 
any inherent justification. 

4. As for our attitude towards Russia, I think you are mistaken. 
The view that I and Engels have formed is a quite independent 
one, having, I may say, been laboriously evolved over many years 
from the study of Russian diplomacy. True, Russia is hated in 
Germany and, in the very first issue of the Neue Rheinische 
Zeitung, we presented an anti-Russian war as the revolutionary 
mission of Germany. But hating and understanding are two 
altogether different things. 

5. Your praise of my book“ gave me great pleasure, coming as it 
did from a competent judge. I think that Part II may very likely 
come out before Easter. It will take a somewhat different form, 
more popular ‘ro some pecree. Not, of course, as a result of any 
impulse from within myself, but, first, because Part I] has an 
expressly revolutionary function, and, second, because the condi- 
tions I describe are more concrete. 

4 See this volume, p. 171.- » ibid. - © draft - “A Contribution to the Critique of Political 
Economy 

In Russia my book has caused a considerable stir, and a 
professor in Moscow has given a lecture on it.'** Moreover, many 
Russians, in particular, have written to me very kindly about it. 
Ditto German-speaking Frenchmen. 

6. Ad vocem* H. Bürgers.”’” How like the gentle Heinrich. He 
was, it is true, nominally co-editor of the N. Rh. Z., but never 
wrote for it, except for one article,” of which I deleted one half 
and rewrote the other. So enraged was he about this (it happened 
during the early days of the paper) that he asked for a general 
vote. This I conceded as an exception, at the same time explaining 
that a newspaper office should be ruled dictatorially and not by 
general vote. Universal suffrage went universally against him. 
After that, he wrote nothing more. Prison, by the by, is said to 
have had a very moderating effect on him. Give me Casemate 
Wolff* any day. Admittedly, his temperament is diametrically the 
opposite of Burgers’. 

What has vexed me more than Bürgers is that Miquel, a 
Gottingen lawyer and a very gifted and energetic member of our 
party, has joined Bennigsen. 

7. Polizei-Silhouetten by Dr Eichhoff published in Berlin. Badly 
written, but contains some delectable things. Throws a fine light 
on the liberal ‘police’ and the ‘law-courts’ in Berlin. Was instantly 
confiscated. One copy arrived here safely. 

8. I must confess my complete ignorance of Prussian legal 
procedure. I never imagined I should get material justice. But I did 
think the procedure was such that I would at least succeed in 
getting as far as a public hearing. That was all I wanted. 

Under (old) Rhenish procedure, did a private action for injurda 
or libel also depend on prior permission being obtained from 
officers of the judiciary, i.e. the government? 

Salut. 
Your 
K. M.