Marx lifted whole passages from Engels’s private letter into his public journalism
Evidence
- So cursory was Marx’s knowledge of the facts and so offhand his attitude towards the journalism, that he simply lifted entire formulations from Engels’s letter of 6 June 1853, and inserted them into his own dispatch of 10 June. As luck would have it, some of those epistolary/journalistic amalgams became overly famous. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 739
Categorization
- XREF: Undermines the canonical status of Marx’s India writings by showing they were recycled private correspondence — relevant to the book’s broader argument about Marx and India.