have just received the prospectus [H. Bürgers, ‘Prospectus for the Founding of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung'] along with your letter. There’s damned little prospect for the shares here. [Wilhelm] Blank, to whom I had already written about it [221]
and who is still the best of the lot, has become practically a
bourgeois; the others even more so since they became established and
came into conflict with the workers. All these folk shun the discussion
of social questions like the plague, calling |