Letter to Friedrich Engels, February-March 1875

Author(s)	Karl Marx
Written	February 1875

First published in: Marx and Engels, Works, Second Russian Edition, Vol. 18 (Note 444), Moscow, 1961
Published in English for the first time in: Marx and Engels, Collected Works (present edition, Vol. 24, Note 44)
Published in English in full in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 45

MARX TO ENGELS^[1]

IN LONDON

[London, February-March 1875]

Go to it, but in jovial fashion. So stupid, that Bakunin may have contributed. What Peter Tkachov is above all trying to tell his readers is that you had treated him as an enemy, and he therefore invents all manner of disputes that never occurred.

↑ Marx wrote this letter on the cover of Tkachov's pamphlet Offener Brief an Herrn Friedrich Engels, Zurich, 1874. Tkachov's work was written in reply to Engels' third article in the Refugee Literature series carried by Der Volksstaat on 6 and 8 October 1874 (see present edition, Vol. 24, pp. 19-28). In his letter to Engels of 1 February 1875 Wilhelm Liebknecht proposed that Engels write a refutation to the pamphlet. Marx may have read the pamphlet in February or March and passed it on to Engels with his comments. A short while later, Engels wrote articles IV and V in the Refugee Literature series, which were printed by Der Volksstaat on 28 March and 2, 16, 18 and 21 April 1875. This letter was published in English for the first time in: Marx and Engels, Collected Works (present edition, Vol. 24, Note 44).

[1] Marx wrote this letter on the cover of Tkachov's pamphlet Offener Brief an Herrn Friedrich Engels, Zurich, 1874. Tkachov's work was written in reply to Engels' third article in the Refugee Literature series carried by Der Volksstaat on 6 and 8 October 1874 (see present edition, Vol. 24, pp. 19-28). In his letter to Engels of 1 February 1875 Wilhelm Liebknecht proposed that Engels write a refutation to the pamphlet. Marx may have read the pamphlet in February or March and passed it on to Engels with his comments. A short while later, Engels wrote articles IV and V in the Refugee Literature series, which were printed by Der Volksstaat on 28 March and 2, 16, 18 and 21 April 1875. This letter was published in English for the first time in: Marx and Engels, Collected Works (present edition, Vol. 24, Note 44).

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