London, 11 April 1884 

Dear Kautsky, 

Have got yours and Ede’s letter. I hope to be done with Morgan 
next week !74; cannot do much at the moment as Schorlemmer and 

* Harry Quelch-” See this volume, pp. 125 and 129.-° educated numbskulls - 
4 in public 

Moore are here. This will be my last job for some time; it is no joke 
making a résumé of so meaty and ill-written a book. If Tussy can find 
the letter, I shall also include an assessment of Richard Wagner by 
Marx ?°7; what the connection is you must find out for yourselves. 

Thereafter work will proceed uninterruptedly on Volume II* as 
well as on revisions of: 1) your Poverty, !! 2) notes and preface to 
the French ditto, 3) revision of the English translation ** which 
ought now to forge ahead. Besides that, 4), more Diuhring? and 
whatever else may be sent me from France for revision. 

Fabian has been going for me with a persistence he would be quick 
to drop if he knew how much entertainment we over here derive from 
it. Some years ago he had suggested that we should write for a period- 
ical to be founded by him and another great thinker, ” and this on the 
basis of a philosophical programme they had laid down ready cut and 
dried and consisting in a crabbed and misconstrued fourth generation 
Kantianism. After that he went for my dialectical approach to math- 
ematics and complained to Marx that I had defamed ./—1.?°9 And 
now the fun is beginning all over again. Let him roam the world arm 
in arm with von der Mark; he will not be read by me. 

The Condition of the Working-Class. The last news J had about it . 
from Liebknecht was that Freytag had told him that I was still bound 
by my contract with Wigand. You can’t go by what Liebknecht says, 
and what he has done in this matter amounts to nil. ° I shall write to 
Freytag myself; it is the only thing to do. *° 

However much Geiser may abuse the atheists, Bismarck certainly 
won't do him the favour of repealing the Anti-Socialist Law. 3’ 
Whoever may have harboured any illusions on this point hitherto will 
doubtless now be rid of them, Bismarck having thrown in his last re- 
serve, that old jackass Lehmann, in order to preserve it. ?!° 

How delicious that the parliamentary group should have forbidden 
Liebknecht to write for a paper. *?!! That beats the old Prussian cen- 
sorship. Well, if Liebknecht stands for that, things have come to 
a pretty pass. 

Rodbertus,* etc., received, many thanks; will be returned next 
week. The relevant note in Capital is in the 2nd edition, p. 552‘ and 
* of Capital- Wilhelm Ludwig Rosenberg-* See this volume, pp. 19-20 and 
102.- Berliner Volksblatt-© K. Rodbertus, Offener Brief an das Comité des Deutsch- 

en Arbeitervereins zu Leipzig.-' See K. Marx, Capital, Vol. I, Part V, Ch. XVIII 
(present edition, Vol. 35). 

will, in the 3rd edition, be considerably qualified by me in an ad- 
dendum; kindly attend to this. 
You must now excuse me, as I still have to write to Ede. 

Your 
F.E.