London, 15 February 1872 

Dear Liebknecht, 

Letters from Germany about enrolment are still not forth- 
coming.*" If the dear Germans again will not go beyond promises 
and fine phrases, we shall never get anywhere with them. 

I cannot procure for you the data about the roor.rates ”* for the 
moment. We are being kept busy by the reply” to the Jura 
circular,’ which is very urgent, and local statistics are the sort of 
thing one must collect oneself from the sources. For the time 
being, do not mention the reply to the Jurassians in public. 

You will be aware that Albert Richard and Gaspard Blanc were 
the chief supporters of Bakunin & Co. (see the report on the last 
meeting).**° 

a K. Marx, ‘Inaugural Address of the Working Men’s International Association’. - 
b K. Marx and F. Engels, Fictitious Splits in the International. 

Re the Misére de la philosophie, steps will be taken soon. Marx has 
signed the contract for the French translation of Capital and it will 
soon start to appear in instalments. (Between ourselves for the time 
being).**° As soon as some have come out, it will be the turn of the 
Misére de la philosophie. 

The Manifesto will follow, in German’ and probably in French 
and English (having appeared in an English and a French 
periodical in New York ay. 

You see that things are in full swing here. But it all makes for a 
lot of work. 

The Lassalleans here have been thrown out, as you know.’ If 
they go on kicking up a fuss in the Neuer Social-Demokrat, send us 
the paper when you have finished with it—it doesn’t get sent to 
the Workers’ Educational Society anymore. The Lassallean 
gentlemen here had the impertinence to go on behaving as if they 
were ‘The Society’ and sent Scherzer as their delegate to the 
General Council, where he was turned back without further ado. 

You will have received the 800-odd stamps from Marx. You stick 
them on the top of the back of the title leaf of the Rules, of which, 
I hope, we shall soon receive the 3,000 copies, together with the 
bill? Cf. the relevant Conference resolution, which is clear 
enough.*”° 

Enclosed find a Prussian loan-certificate for 10 thalers in 
settlement of the accompanying invoice, for which I should like a 
receipt. Use the balance as you think fit. 

Furthermore, 4 reports on meetings” from The Eastern Post and 
a few lines to Hepner.” 

Cuno is behaving very courageously but has lost his job and is in 
a very bad way.‘ 

I had guessed that your Italian could only be Stefanoni. Now 
just pay attention to this: 

1. Libero Pensiero No. 18, 2 November 1871. Programme of the 
Societa Universale dei Razionalisti, setting up a rival association 
to the International. According to its programme rationalist 
monasteries are to be established, a colossal sum of money to be 
invested in land is to be amassed and a marble bust of every 
bourgeois who donates 10,000 francs to the society is to be placed 
in the congress hall.*”! 

2. There follow, in Nos, 20 & 21, increasingly virulent attacks on 
the International for repudiating atheism, as conceived by the 

a See this volume, p. 297.-> of the General Council -¢ See this volume, 
p. 305. 

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Alliance, and on the General Council for its tyrannical ways, etc. 
3. After an interval, this is followed in No. 1 of 4 January 1872 
by a lengthy abusive article about the General Council, in which all 
the slanders of Schneider and Weber from the Neuer Social- 
Demokrat** appear in translation and are accompanied by equally 
outrageous commentaries, e. g. on the Communist trial.'* 

4. This is followed in No. 3 of 18 January by a letter from 
Wilhelm Liebknecht of 28 December, in which the latter promises 
help to Stefanoni and offers to publish his contributions and to 
lend his support, without seeing it, to the programme of this 
honest society at the Saxon provincial assembly.* 

5. This is followed in No. 4 of 25 January by another abusive 
article about the General Council in which the slanderous 
allegations about Marx by Messrs Schenck and Winand are once more