Ramsgate,'?' 24 May 1876 
3 Adelaide Gardens 

Dear Moor, 

I have just received the two letters enclosed herewith.” The 
curse of paid agitators, of the semi-literate, lies heavy on our party 

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in Germany. If things go on at this rate the Lassalleans will soon 
be more lucid than anyone else because they assimilate less rubbish 
and Lassalle’s writings provide the least noxious form of agitation. 
I wonder what this man Most really wants of us and what we 
should do to satisfy him. Obviously, these people imagine that 
Dühring, by his scurrilous onslaughts upon you, has rendered 
himself invulnerable vis-a-vis ourselves, for, if we make fun of his 
theoretical nonsense, it will look as though it’s out of revenge for 
those personalities! The ruder Dihring is, the more humble and 
propitiating we are to be, and can, in fact, thank our stars that Mr 
Most, besides requiring us to point out Mr Dühring’s howlers 
kindly and privily to him (as if nothing more than howlers was 
involved) in order that he might eliminate them from the next 
edition,’ shouldn’t ask us to kiss his most worthy of posteriors. 
This fellow— Most, I mean—has contrived to do a résumé of the 
whole of Capital’** without understanding a word of the thing. Of 
this the letter provides striking proof while showing up the fellow 
for what he is. All such nonsense would be out of the question if 
only, instead of Wilhelm,’ there were at the top a man with some 
modicum of theoretical insight, someone who wasn’t eager to print 
every and any kind of nonsense—the crazier the better—and 
commend it to the workers with all the authority of the Volksstaat. 
Enfin,” the business has made my blood boil, and the question is 
whether it isn’t about time we seriously reconsidered our position 
vis-a-vis these gentlemen.” 

So far as that silly ass Wilhelm is concerned, all this is simply a 
welcome pretext to dun us for manuscripts. What a party leader! 

I enclose an interesting news item from Constantinople in 
yesterday's Daily News‘; one is all the more prepared to credit the 
man in that the softas’ revolution °° goes very much against the 
grain with him. The affair in the east is about To come To a HEAD; the 
Serbians’ renewed attempt to raise a loan, likewise their suspension 
of bills of exchange and the fresh demands of the Herzegovinian 
insurgents’*’ are all evidence of the extent of Russia’s machina- 
tions there. I am curious to see what turn things will take. 

We’ve had our first rainy day here; yesterday there was only a 
brief shower. I hope all continues to go well with Jenny.’™ Lizzie 
and I send our love to all of you, the Longuets and Lafargues. 

Your 
F. E. 

a Wilhelm Liebknecht - > In short - © ‘The Revolution in Constantinople’, The Daily 
News, No. 9386, 23 May 1876. 

I have just noticed that Wilhelm has sent me the whole of Most’s 
manuscript’ in a wrapper. Who knows whether that is interna- 
tionally admissible and hence whether it will arrive? Would you go 
and see some time if it’s there and, If so, send it to me? I shall be 
staying here until the Friday of next week.“ Mrs Leeson will show 
you where she keeps any papers, etc., that arrive for me.