The First Socialist Schism by Wolfgang Eckhardt

Author:Wolfgang Eckhardt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 2016-02-29T16:00:00+00:00

Apparently Utin made a similar request to Lopatin, who wrote to Bakunin

that I was asked urgently for the letter of the Committee and documents relating to it for some purpose. I refused to hand these things to whomsoever without the permission of L[yubavin]. […] I wrote to L[yubavin] that in no case he should agree with that […] Believe me: I will never wish to soil my hands with mud just to have the dubious satisfaction to fling that mud on you.182

‘In a letter to me’, Lopatin added, Lyubavin ‘declared most categorically himself against publishing the documents sent to him’.183

More than two years had passed since these events when Marx, on the search for ammunition against Bakunin, turned to Nikolai Daniel’son (1844–1918), who translated most of Capital into Russian after Bakunin stopped. Marx wrote Daniel’son on 15 August 1872:

Bakunin was once charged with the Russian translation of my book, received the money for it in advance, and instead of giving work, sent [!] or had sent to Lubanin (I think) [Lyubavin] who transacted for the publisher with him the affair, a most infamous and compromising letter. It would be of the highest utility for me, if this letter was sent me immediately. As this is a mere commercial affair and as in the use to be made of the letter no names will be used, I hope you will procure me that letter. But no time is to be lost. If it is sent, it ought to be sent at once as I shall leave London for the Haag Congress at the end of this month.184

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