Letter to Karl Kautsky, January 28, 1892

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 28 January 1892


First published in Aus der Frühzeit des Marxismus. Engels Briefwechsel mit Kautsky, Prague, 1935
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 49


ENGELS TO KARL KAUTSKY

IN STUTTGART

London, 28 January 1892

Dear Baron,

Your omission of Bebel and Liebknecht ALL RIGHT.[1] It makes no difference at all to the thing.

Six Centuries, etc.[2] would probably be worth translating, more so at any rate than the same author's Economic Interpretation of History, most of which he undoubtedly cribbed from Capital; it is somewhat pedantically written although it does contain individual insights. In Six Centuries there is much that is unknown in Germany—genuine material but a number of false interpretations, as is inevitable with a bourgeois. But I should have thought you'd have found writing works of your own pleasanter and more necessary than translating.

Kindest regards from

Your

General

  1. ↑ 398
  2. ↑ On 26 January 1892 Kautsky informed Engels that J.H.W. Dietz had requested him to translate James E. Thorold Rogers' Six Centuries of Work and Wages. The History of English Labour (London, 1886). In this connection Kautsky asked for Engels' opinion of the book.