MARX TO JOSEPH WEYDEMEYER” 

London, 25 March 1852 
28 Dean Street, Soho 

Dear Weydemeyer, 

Good luck to the new world citizen! There is no more splendid 
time to enter this world than the present. Come the day when 
people can travel from London to Calcutta in a week, both our 
heads will long since have rolled or started to loll. And Australia 
and California and the Pacific Ocean! The new world citizens will 
be unable to comprehend how small our world once was. 

If you did not receive the final instalment* enclosed herewith a 
week ago, your total silence is to blame. 

Now in the pamphlet,” too, I would like my article to be divided 
up as it was sent to you, under headings I, H, III, IV, V, VI, VII. 
These figures serve as sign-posts for the reader. They take the 
place of titles. At the end of V, add the following words: ‘But 
Bonaparte answered the Party of Order as Agesilaus did King 
Agis: “I seem to thee an ant, but one day I shall be a lion.” But the 
thing must, of course, be brought out now all at once in its 
entirety. 

Where my wife has failed to leave space enough to indicate the 
paragraphs, I have marked them with a [. 

Cluss’ statement is splendid. 

Why not—it strikes me as a good idea—include Ernest Jones’ 
letter in your first issue?**? A couple of introductory words would 
suffice to explain it. 

Maintenant”: Cluss will already have told you about the Szemere 
business.” First a publisher will have to be contacted through me 
and arrangements made for his pamphlet—some 10 sheets—on 
Kossuth, L. Batthyany and Gérgey—to be brought out in German 
and later in English. You might, if it can be managed, publish the 
German original as your second instalment without, of course, any 
other additions. But the publisher must pay for the thing if you 
don’t publish it yourself. 

a of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, VII - > Now 

When this has been arranged—and perhaps even before 
that—the Revolution will receive 500 dollars from this source, on 
condition that Bangya comes in as co-editor, i.e. only in the sense 
that part of the paper is allotted to the Hungarians and run by 
Bangya, Szemere’s agent. But you'll have no difficulty in getting 
on with him, car il est bon homme.’ 

I am very glad to hear that you have found employment as a 
surveyor. You will be able to operate with greater confidence and 
peace of mind. 

One of these days I shall be starting on Mazzini. Whereas Mr 
Kinkel, whose wisdom, by his own admission, derives from nursery 
tales, now chooses to see nothing but unity among the ‘great men’, 
he finds on his return the battle raging optima forma.” For Ledru 
and Mazzini have bought the Brussels daily La Nation for 10,000 
fr. drawn from the Italian loan. Mais voila que‘ il Signore Mazzini 
looses off an opening article, in which he vents all his infamous 
anti-French, anti-socialist inanities about the initiative lost by 
France," and this so wildly that Ledru now feels compelled—and 
has, it seems, made up his mind—to take issue with him 
personally. On the other hand, the socialists L. Blanc, Pierre 
Leroux, Cabet, Mallarmet, etc., have joined forces and published a 
venomous retort composed by dear little L. Blanc. At the same 
time the majority of the French émigrés are violently incensed 
against Ledru, whom they rightly hold responsible for Mazzini’s 
stupidities. Fire has broken out in the very midst of their camp. 

Should you happen to get hold of Der Tag ist angebrochen, a 
book by that miserable cleric, Dulon, who fancies himself as a 
Lamennais, mind you give the cur a good dusting. 

Dronke has been arrested in Paris where he lingered too long 
on his way here from Switzerland instead of hurrying through. 

I like your selection very much. Pieper’s article might do well 
enough for a newspaper. For a pamphlet it was dashed off too 
hastily and perfunctorily. 

Can you not get news of Edgar’ from Braunfels? We have 
heard nothing from the lazybones and this is causing his mother * 
great anxiety. A crazy lad! 

Cluss’ protest” was greeted with general applause at the League' 

a for he’s a good fellow -» for all it’s worth - © But now - 4 See this volume, 
p. 59. - © W. Pieper, ‘Die Arbeiter Assoziation in England’. - £ Edgar von Westpha- 
len - 8 Caroline von Westphalen -» A. Cluss, ‘An den Garanten-Congress des 
deutschen Anleihens in Cincinnati’. -' the Communist League 

meeting here, and both we and Stechan’s society” found your 
Revolution to our liking. 
Warm regards from my family to yours. 

Your 
K. M. 

In case the infamous reply from Willich’s society to Pfander’s 
statement'” should appear in some paper or other (e.g. Weit- 
ling’s*), I am sending you Pfander’s 2nd statement. 

What can red Becker? be doing? Has he, too, become a 
Kinkelian? 

Apropos. Some of the engineering workers have come to their 
senses and sent apologies to Jones. By now the English workers 
have collected sufficient money for Jones to bring out a big stampep 

weekly '”' in addition to his Notes. The jackass who is to convey 
these to you has still not left.