London, 8 January 1895 
41 Regent’s Park Road, N. W. 

Dear Friend, 

I have had your various letters of 6 Sep., 16 Dec. and the 1* of this month 
and have passed on your message to Aveling. “° 

Many thanks for the trouble you have been to over the preface to the third 
volume of Capital. It in quite a good thing that it should come out in the 
Rassegna “”’ since it will enable people in Italy to see that abroad Loria’s 
spurious greatness is viewed in a very different light from what it is at home. 
On the other hand I can understand that at present Turati should consider it 
better tactics not to attack the man as vehemently as I do.” When we had the 
exceptional laws '° to contend with in Germany, our tactics were different in 
many respects, and individual opponents whom we have since mercilessly 
attacked were temporarily spared for one reason or another. In cases such as 
these I must rely to a very large extent on the judgement of men who, like 
Turati, are in the thick of the fray; those men may not always do what I, from 
my standpoint over here, would consider best or most important, but 
nevertheless they are doing something, are doing their duty to the best of 
their knowledge, and are prepared to take the consequences. If the 
government didn’t find Turati and his Milan friends exceedingly 
objectionable, it would not have put them under domicilio coatto’ for three 
months or five. 

* See present edition, Vol. 37, pp. 876-82 - ° house arrest 

Admittedly neither of the two chapters of the third volume of Capital 
solves the kind of question relating to the theory of value that might be raised 
by any old bourgeois economist. There is nothing of the sort in one chapter 
or the other of the book. But those aspects of the subject that could not be 
developed in Volume I are elucidated in Parts 1-4 of Volume II I. 

Two or three copies of your translation of the preface will amply suffice 
me. 

I most sincerely reciprocate your good wishes for the New Year and 
remain 

Yours, 
F. Engels