Engels to Marx

in London

Manchester, 7, Southgate, 11 Feb. 1868

Memorandum from Engels to Mr. Mohr[!

I received your letter and that of your Honourable Secretary! and am returning herewith the Vienna clippings and Meyer’s letter. That is indeed a terrible misfortune at the Weydemeyers’!! I am of the opinion that an article should be sent to the debate (via Richter) and that one must strike while the iron is hot. It should go off this very week.[! The “specialist critique” of the “Frankfurter Börsenzeitung” is extremely amusing! It is characteristic that these Viennese literati, thorough-paced Jews washed in all waters, who know the whole business inside out, regard the non-Austrian German press as bona fide.

Dühring amuses me greatly. The attacks on Roscher, Mill, etc. were naturally a welcome windfall for him – but how different the embarrassed tone of the review from this impertinent manner of the brochure!

I also do not believe in war, if only because the Peace League depicts it as inevitable; Sadowa has in any case made it impossible for Bonaparte to start a war with Germany without great alliances. And since, in the best case, he only gets Austria (England would, as always or more than ever, count for nothing militarily) and would have Prussia and Russia against him, the business is very rotten. Italy also delivers nothing, and on top of that he has ruined the affair himself. He is floored. Even the great Karl Schurz, ex-student General Furz, confided this to Bismarck in secret. !]

It is nearly 7 o’clock, and I haven’t eaten yet. Must first run home, so enough for today.

Yours
F.E.

Karl Marx