[Worthing, 22 August 1884] 

[...]* index for Capital would be highly desirable.? But why not 
all at one go when the whole thing is done? That will be next year for 
sure, provided I don’t collapse, of which there is no prospect at pre- 
sent. For your own information, The History of Theory has also been 
largely completed. The ms. of A Contribution to the Critique of Political 
Economy of 1860-62 contains, as I think I showed you when you were 
here, approx. 500 quarto pages on Theories of Surplus Value, a great 
deal of which must, it is true, be deleted because it has since been re- 
written, but there will still be enough of it.17! 

In his Schulze-Bastiat, Lassalle cited Rodbertus in a connection 
that might in anyone else’s case have earned him intense hostility, i. e. 
as the authority for and/or discoverer of a trifle. The Briefe” may, it is 
true, have contributed to the Rodbertus cult. But what has done so 
more than anything else is, firstly, the desire among non-communists 
to set alongside Marx a rival who is himself a non-communist and, 
secondly, those people’s unscientific confusion. To all those who loiter 
on the state socialist fringes of our party, make sympathetic speeches 

@ The first part of the letter is missing.- > The reference is probably to Rodbertus’ 
Briefe und Socialpolitische Aufsaetze. 

11]. Engels to Kautsky. 30 August 1884 189 

but nevertheless want to avoid the hostility of the police, His Excel- 
lency Rodbertus is a godsend. 

The move of the Neue Zeit to Hamburg may after all be only the 
prelude to its end.? Of course I know nothing about those presently 
in charge of the Hamburg office. 

Last Tuesday* we had a revolution here in Worthing. A shop be- 
longing to a Salvation Army fanatic was attacked and broken up; the 
man fired his revolver, wounding three people. Next day windows 
were smashed in the lock-up; that same evening 40 dragoons and 50 
police moved in (the little place has about 10,000 inhabitants) to 
clear the streets, whereupon the good citizens, knowing themselves to 
be innocuous, refused to budge and in several instances received 
a merciless beating; now all is calm. Really, the tomfoolery one wit- 
nesses. Both sides, Salvationists and Anti-Salvationists, are secretly in 
the pay of the bourgeoisie. 

Your 
F. E.