Oct 14, 2026 · 37 min · 7 segments
Audiobook of a “Circular Letter to August Bebel, Wilhelm Liebknecht, Wilhelm Bracke and Others”, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in September 1879. Read it online: https://bit.ly/c-lett-2…
Circular letter from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to August Bebel, Wilhelm Liebknecht, Wilhelm Brücke and others.
Written September 1879.
Liebknecht asks Höchberg if he will take over the editorship of the party organ, which is to be newly established in Zurich.
Höchberg wants information as to the finances of the paper, what funds are at its disposal, and who provides them.
The first, in order to know whether the paper will be bound to fade out after a few months, and then to make sure who holds the purse strings and with them the ultimate control over the line of the paper.
A discussion had taken place between Wierich and us in which it had been felt that your position, owing to the differences which you had with individual comrades when you were a Laterner, lantern, a newspaper man, would be made rather difficult.
But I do not attach much weight to this objection.
Not a word about the financing.
Höchberg replies by return on July twenty-sixth with the question as to the material position of the paper.
What comrades have pledged themselves to cover the deficit, up to what amount and for how long? The question of the editor's salary plays no part at all here.
All Höchberg wants to know is if the means are insured for guaranteeing the paper for at least a year.
Any deficit will be covered by voluntary contributions, of which some are already subscribed.
To Höchberg's remarks about the line he thought of giving to the paper dealt with below, he replies with disapproving remarks and instructions on which the supervisory committee must insist all the more since it is itself in its turn under control, that is responsible.
On these points, you will therefore have to come to an understanding with the supervisory committee.
An early and if possible telegraphic reply desired.
Thus, instead of an answer to his legitimate questions, Höchberg receives the information that he is to edit the paper under a supervisory committee seated in Zurich, whose views differ very essentially from his own and whose members are not even named to him.
Justly indignant at this treatment, Höchberg prefers to come to an understanding with the Leipzig people.
His letter of August second to Liebknecht must be known to you, as Höchberg expressly required that you and Wierich should be informed.
Circular letter from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to August Bebel, Wilhelm Liebknecht, Wilhelm Brücke and others.
Written September 1879.
Liebknecht asks Höchberg if he will take over the editorship of the party organ, which is to be newly established in Zurich.
Höchberg wants information as to the finances of the paper, what funds are at its disposal, and who provides them.
The first, in order to know whether the paper will be bound to fade out after a few months, and then to make sure who holds the purse strings and with them the ultimate control over the line of the paper.
A discussion had taken place between Wierich and us in which it had been felt that your position, owing to the differences which you had with individual comrades when you were a Laterner, lantern, a newspaper man, would be made rather difficult.
But I do not attach much weight to this objection.
Not a word about the financing.
Höchberg replies by return on July twenty-sixth with the question as to the material position of the paper.
What comrades have pledged themselves to cover the deficit, up to what amount and for how long? The question of the editor's salary plays no part at all here.
All Höchberg wants to know is if the means are insured for guaranteeing the paper for at least a year.
Any deficit will be covered by voluntary contributions, of which some are already subscribed.
To Höchberg's remarks about the line he thought of giving to the paper dealt with below, he replies with disapproving remarks and instructions on which the supervisory committee must insist all the more since it is itself in its turn under control, that is responsible.
On these points, you will therefore have to come to an understanding with the supervisory committee.
An early and if possible telegraphic reply desired.
Thus, instead of an answer to his legitimate questions, Höchberg receives the information that he is to edit the paper under a supervisory committee seated in Zurich, whose views differ very essentially from his own and whose members are not even named to him.
Justly indignant at this treatment, Höchberg prefers to come to an understanding with the Leipzig people.
His letter of August second to Liebknecht must be known to you, as Höchberg expressly required that you and Wierich should be informed.
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