ENGELS TO MARX[1]
IN LONDON
Manchester, 7 January 1868
Dear Moor,
Herewith returned the Dühring[2] and the Beobachter[3] The former is highly amusing. The whole article is embarrassment and FUNK. You can see that the worthy vulgar economist is frappé au vif[4] and can find nothing to say except that it will only be possible to judge the first volume when the 3rd has come out,[5] that determination of value by labour time is not undisputed, and that there are people who have some modest doubts about the determination of the value of labour on the basis of its costs of production. You see that for this genus[6] you are by no means learned enough, for you have not confuted the great Macleod[7] on the decisive point. At the same time, there is the fear in every line that he may be exposed to a treatment à la Roscher.[8] The fellow was happy when he had finished the thing, but I am sure he carried it to the post with a heavy heart.
Kugelmann and Wilhelmchen[9] I shall return tomorrow. If there is anything in the copied letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Seubert which could be useful to me for a further Swabian article,[10] please enclose it.
I could do something for Vienna too. Richter could perhaps be asked about the Internationale Revue, he is supposed to know the situation there.
Wilhelmchen's PAPER[11] is just too lovely—everything ready except the security bond, and so it cannot be published. Incidentally, if Wilhelm should go to Vienna then the fuss about the Austrian agent would really get going.[12]
How are things with Beesly, Lewes & Co. and the Fortnightly Review?[13]
Best greetings to the LADIES and the Doctor amorosus.h
Your
F. E.
- ↑ Part of this letter was published in English for the first time in Karl Marx & Frederick Engels, Letters on 'Capital', New Park Publications, London, 1983.
- ↑ E. Dühring, Marx, Das Kapital, Kritik der politischen Oekonomie, 1. Band, Hamburg 1867', Ergänzungsblätter zur Kenntniß der Gegenwart, Bd. 3, Hildburghausen, 1867, S. 182-86.
- ↑ F. Engels, 'Review of Volume One of Capital for the Beobachter.
- ↑ cut to the quick
- ↑ According to the arrangement with the publisher that Marx mentions in his letter, he planned after the publication of Volume One of Capital (appeared in September 1867) to publish Book Two and Book Three as Volume Two, and Book Four, which contained a critical history of economic theories, as a concluding Volume Three.
After Marx's death, Engels prepared for the press and published manuscripts belonging to Book Two and Book Three as Volumes Two and Three of Capital; he died before he could prepare for the press Book Four, Theories of Surplus Value (Volume Four of Capital) and have it published (see also Note 227).
- ↑ sort
- ↑ H. D. Macleod, The Theory and Practice of Banking....
- ↑ Engels has in mind the critique of Roscher's views in Vol. One of Capital.
- ↑ Wilhelm Liebknecht
- ↑ In his letter to Engels of 30 November 1867, Kugelmann asked him to write several reviews of Volume One of Capital by Marx. Kugelmann was going to arrange for their publication with the help of Lieutenant-Colonel Seubert, a writer and an official of the Württemberg War Ministry, to whose daughter he was giving treatment. Seubert promised his assistance in getting the reviews published in such newspapers as Der Beobachter, Staats-Anzeiger für Württemberg and Schwäbischer Merkur. For the first two Engels wrote reviews.
- ↑ Demokratisches Wochenblatt
- ↑ In a letter addressed TO MARX's daughter Jenny of 3 January 1868, Liebknecht said that he would like to ask Marx what he thought of his possible removal from Leipzig to Vienna.
- ↑ Engels wrote the review of Volume One of Marx's Capital for The Fortnightly Review much later, in May and June 1868. As can be seen from their subsequent correspondence, Marx and Engels exchanged opinions several times on the content and form of the article.
In spite of Professor Beesly's request, the review was rejected by the editorial board and has only been preserved in manuscript form (see present edition, Vol. 20).