“Vogt’s attack on me — he is obviously seeking to represent me as an insignificant and rascally bourgeois blackguard is intended to be the grand coup of bourgeois vulgar democracy — and likewise of the Russo-Bonapartist riff-raff — against the party as a whole. Hence it must likewise be countered with a grand coup. Furthermore, the defensive does not suit our purpose. I shall sue the National-Zeitung. I've now made up my mind to do so.” [Letter from Marx to Engels, 3rd February]