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per, during his absence, had specifically attacked his pet proposals
for a Tauschbank and Kommerzstunden, which he regarded as the
very essence of his "system."
In January, 1846, the harassed champion of Utopian commu
nism made his last speech in London. In it he recapitulated and
rephrased his familiar criticism of settling issues by the democratic
counting of noses, contrasted the relative advantages of republics
and monarchies, and referred in passing to the accomplishments
of Napoleon I toward unifying Europe. Two weeks later, the
society voted to discontinue the discussion and to turn to the con
sideration of Friedrich Feuerbach's Religion of the Future, and of
any scientific question which any member might like to introduce.
The vote clearly indicated a victory for Schapper, Bauer, and
their group. In due time the Marxians won further control over
the London group, and, in turn, Schapper, August Willich, and
several others broke with Marxian orthodoxy after a number of
factional fights in the 1850's. Weitling meantime had departed for
Brussels, where his decisive conflict with Marx was about to take
place.^11
(^11) On these factional battles in London, see Max Nettlau, "Londoner deutsche
Kommunistische Diskussionen, 1845," in Archiv fur die Geschichte des Sozialis¬
mus und der Arbeiterbewegung (Leipzig, 1922), X, 362-91; Carl Grünberg
(ed.), Die Londoner Kommunistische Zeitschrift und andere Urkunden aus den
Jahren 1847/48 (Leipzig, 1921), passim; Gwenda David and Eric Mosbacker
(trans.), Boris Nicolaievsky and Otto Maenchen-Helfen's Karl Marx, Man and
Fighter (Philadelphia, 1936), passim.