Such a rumor, Marx wrote the work "Mr. Vogt" to stop the shameful attempt

In the late fifties and early sixties of the nineteenth century, Marx and Engels wrote many articles for the People's Daily, the New York Daily Tribune, and various other newspapers and periodicals expounding his views on the road of the German people's struggle for national unity and what steps must be taken first. Struggles were fought whenever foreign countries, then mainly Bonaparte France, interfered in germany's internal affairs; to abolish feudalism; To stop divisions within the nation; To liberate the people oppressed by Prussia and Austria. All this is the programme of action of the proletarian revolutionaries.

Not surprisingly, all those hostile to the democratic unity of Germany – from French Emperor Napoleon III to Prussian Juncker – united against this revolutionary national programme. In opposing the Communists, even those "feuds" acted in unison.

Napoleon III used the former German petty-bourgeois democrat Carl Vogt to spread rumors against Marx, and the Prussian Juncker and the Liberals could not wait to spread such rumors everywhere in their press. They said that Marx extorted money, secretly informed the revolutionaries, and even said that he printed counterfeit money. When Marx wanted to prosecute these rumor-mongers according to law, they refused to admit guilt.

So Marx had to refute Vogt's anti-communist rumors in his polemical work, Mr. Vogt. Vogt wanted to isolate the Communists from the rising popular movement. By writing this treatise, Marx put an end to this shameful attempt. He conclusively pointed out who among those who had fled Germany had truly contributed to the cause of progress; Who, even when persecuted and living in extreme difficulty, still firmly defended the national interests of the German people. Vogt, on the other hand, served Napoleon III and supported Napoleon's policy as a political commentator aimed at opposing the democratic unification of Germany.

Ten years later, after the overthrow of the Second French Empire, in Napoleon's documents, a receipt for forty thousand francs was found. The money was received by Vogt from Bonaparte's secret fund in 1859.

(Gemkov's "Marx" reading notes)