{[London, 22 December 1883] 

If you have still got The Labour Standard, will you please send it to 
Lafargue straight away; he gave Shipton’s remarks a lambasting in the 
Cri du Peuple, and wants to have the original as the thing is creating 
a furore.'? i wouldn’t be able to get hold of another copy before 
Monday, not to say Thursday* (and perhaps not even then). 

Have been up again since Saturday” but still very wobbly. 

You gave von der Mark his deserts all right! The fool imagines peo- 
ple should take account of what he understands by ‘State’! 1*° Just as 
Rodbertus criticised Marx for supposing capital to be real capital, 
rather than Rodbertus’ ‘notion of capital’.!°! German to the core. 

Kautsky back? 

Regards, yours, 
F.E.