Ramsgate,’ 25 July 1876 
11 Camden Square 

Dear Moor, 

Have written to Lafargue asking him to let us know what day he 
is arriving, Friday or Saturday.” 

Herewith Wilhelm’s* letter with enclosure by Most. You see 
what sort of people they are—both of them. Take Wilhelm’s 
portentous attitude to the ‘attempts at a rapprochement.” As 
though one—that is anyone—could become involved with canaille 
who have been convicted of such treason! And as though any kind 
of rapprochement could lead to anything! What is supposed to 
happen when they have effected it? If, circumstances being what 
they are and the situation what it is, these people want to resume 
the role of the International, LET THEM PLEASE THEMSELVES AND BAD MANNERS 
TO THEM! 

The co.rarse of the Serbs is stupendous.'”° The campaign was 
intended to set the whole of Turkey in flames, and everywhere the 
tinder is damp— Montenegro has betrayed the campaign for her 
own private ends, Bosnia has absolutely no intention of rebelling 
now that Serbia proposes to liberate her, and the worthy 
Bulgarians aren’t lifting a finger. The Serbian army of liberation is 
having to live at its own expense and, after a swashbuckling 

 Wilhelm Liebknecht’s - » See this volume, p. 184. 

offensive, withdraw into its robber’s lair without having been 
seriously defeated anywhere.—No doubt that will also serve as a 
lesson to the Romanians, in which case the Russian plans will be 
pretty well in the soup. 

For the rest, I console myself here with Dihring’s philosophy *— 
never before has anyone written such arrant rubbish. Windy 
platitudes—nothing more, interspersed with utter drivel, but the 
whole thing dressed up, not without skill, for a public with which 
the author is thoroughly familiar—a public that wants by means 
of beggar’s soup” and little effort to lay down the law about 
everything. The man is as if cut out for the socialism and 
philosophy of the milliards era. 

Your 
F. E.