Letter to Karl Kautsky, September 25, 1893

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 25 September 1893


First published in Aus der Frühzeit des Marxismus. Engels Briefwechsel mit Kautsky, Prague, 1935
Printed according to the original
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 50


ENGELS TO KARL KAUTSKY

IN STUTTGART

Berlin, 25 September 1893

Dear Baron,

I cannot possibly allow the letter in question to be launched upon the world without an introduction.[1] Our opponents would at once gleefully set about both writer[2] and recipient[3] and it's going to cause enough of a scandal as it is. But not having the letter here, I cannot write an introduction. You people ought to have seen to this beforehand; I shall not be able to do anything about it before the 30th or the 1st of October.

Regards,

Your

F.E.

  1. ↑ 260
  2. ↑ Heinrich Heine
  3. ↑ Karl Marx