{London,] 23 October 1877 

Dear Bracke, 

Your news is bad but was readily predictable. I have already 
suggested on a number of. occasions that you should kick out the 
gracious Isolde.* However much corrected, her product remains 
an abortion.” Add to that the waste of time, waste of money, etc. 
There can be no legal objection to that person’s being ‘kicked out’ 
since she does not, and is unable to, perform what she 
contractually undertook to do. Blos had at one time proffered his 
services (unfortunately not until after Isolde).’™ 

The review, Zukunft, is by no means satisfactory, its main 
endeavour being to substitute ideological catch-phrases such as 
‘justice’, etc., for materialist knowledge. Its programme is 
wretched! Promises, what’s more, to peddle phantasms of the 
future structure of society. This, the first result of a bourgeois? 
buying his way into the party, is not a happy one—as might have 
been predicted. 

The Vorwdrts, too, is publishing a mass of immature, stereotyped 
essays by aspiring and presumptuous striplings.© I shouldn’t have 
thought the proletariat’s money was intended to provide a 
dumping-ground for such exercises. 

I trust your health is improving. I myself have been suffering 
from influenza for several weeks,— most disruptive of work. 

Yours, 
K. M.