Karl Marx (50 page)

116.
‘
Completely unopposed, I got them to entrust me …
’ Letter from FE to KM, 25–26 October 1847.

117.
‘
What is communism?
’ From ‘Principles of Communism’, by Friedrich Engels,
MECW
, Vol. 6, pp. 341–57.

117.
‘
Marx was a born leader of the people …
’ From ‘Before 1848 and After’ by Friedrich Lessner, in
RME
, pp. 149–66.

118.
‘
aims at the emancipation of humanity …
’ From
Gründungsdokumente des Bundes der Kommunisten (Juni bis September 1847)
, edited by Bert Andreas (Hamburg, 1969).

118.
‘
The aim of the League is the overthrow of the bourgeoisie …
’ From
Die Communisten-Verschwörungen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts
by Karl Wermuth and Wilhelm Stieber (Berlin, 1853).

119.
‘
The Central Committee charges its regional committee …
’ Quoted in
The Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
, edited by David Ryazanov (Russell & Russell, New York, 1963).

120.
‘
a lyrical celebration of bourgeois works …
’ From
All That is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity
by Marshall Berman (Verso, London, 1982).

125.
‘
Our age, the age of democracy, is breaking …
’
Deutsche-Brüsseler-Zeitung
, 27 February 1848.

126.
‘
What an ass Flocon is!
’ Letter from FE to KM, 15 November 1847.

126.
‘
Good and loyal Marx …
’
MECW
, Vol. 6, p. 649.

127.
‘
The German workers [in Brussels] decided to arm themselves …
’ From ‘Short Sketch of an Eventful Life’ by Jenny Marx,
RME
, p. 223.

127.
‘
When Jenny appeared in court the next day …
’ See ‘To the Editor of the
Northern Star
’ by Friedrich Engels,
Northern Star
, 25 March 1848, and
letter from Karl Marx in
La Réforme
, 8 March 1848.

131.
‘
There’s damned little prospect for the shares here …
’ Letter from FE to KM, 25 April 1848.

131.
‘
The most bitter complaints about Marx came from Engels …
’ From
Erinnerungen eines Achtundvierzigers
by Stephan Born (Leipzig, 1898), translated in
KMIR
, p. 16.

133.
‘
For a fortnight Germany has had a Constituent National Assembly …
’
Neue Rheinische Zeitung
, 1 June 1848.

135.
‘
He could not have been much more than thirty years old …
’
The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz
(London, 1909), Vol. 1, p. 138.

136.
‘
A characteristic feature of the Rhineland …
’ Reported in the
Neue Rheinische Zeitung
, 13 September 1848.

137.
‘
Indescribable rejoicing broke out …
’
Neue Rheinische Zeitung
, 9 September 1848.

138.
‘
Name:
Friedrich Engels;
occupation: merchant …
’
Kölnische Zeitung
, 4 October 1848.

138.
‘
It is clear from this that the Belgian government …
’
Neue Rheinische Zeitung
, 12 October 1848.

139.
‘
this newspaper, with its inventive maliciousness …
’
Neue Rheinische Zeitung
, 29 October 1848.

140.
‘
What country in Europe can compare with France …
’ From ‘From Paris to Berne’ by Friedrich Engels,
MECW
, Vol. 7, pp. 507–29.

140.
‘
I am truly amazed that you should still not have received any money …
’ Letter from KM to FE, first half of November 1848.

141.
‘
I have devised an infallible plan …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 29 November 1848.

142.
‘
The overthrow of the bourgeoisie in France …
’ From ‘The Revolutionary Movement’,
Neue Rheinische Zeitung
, 1 January 1849.

144.
‘
In political trials the government nowadays has no luck …
’
Deutsche Londoner Zeitung
, 16 February 1849.

144.
‘
becoming increasingly more audacious now that he has been acquitted …
’ Letter from Colonel Engels to Oberpräsident Eichmann, 17 February 1849.

145.
‘
Relaxation of discipline must have gone very far …
’ Letter from KM to Colonel Engels, 3 March 1849; see also letter from FE to Karl Kautsky, 2 December 1885.

146.
‘
Wonder was expressed …
’ From ‘Marx and the
Neue Rheinische Zeitung
’, by Frederick Engels, published in
Der Sozialdemokrat
, 13 March 1884.

147.
‘
that the much-vaunted bravery under fire is quite the most ordinary quality …
’ Letter from FE to Jenny Marx, 25 July 1849.

147.
‘
For all that, never has a colossal eruption …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 7 June 1849.

147.
‘
If my wife were not in an
état par trop intéressant
…
’ Letter from KM to FE, late July 1849.

148.
‘
I need hardly say that I shall not consent to this veiled attempt on my life …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 23 August 1849.

148.
‘
all Aliens who are now on board my said ship …
’ HO 3/53, Public Record Office, London.

148.
‘
You must leave for London at once …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 23 August 1849.

6 The Megalosaurus

149.
‘
Implacable November weather …
’
Bleak House
by Charles Dickens (Chapman & Hall, London, 1853), p. 1.

150.
‘
Sur, May we beg and beseech …
’
The Times
, 5 July 1849.

151.
‘
I am now in a really difficult situation …
’ Letter from KM to Ferdinand Freiligrath, 5 September 1849.

153.
‘
in view of the inimical relations …
’ Letter from KM to Louis Bauer, 30 November 1849.

153.
‘
all in all, things are going quite well here …
’ Letter from FE to Jakob Lukas Schabelitz, 22 December 1849.

153.
‘
Herr Heinzen, so far from serving as a shining light …
’
Northern Star
, 1 December 1849.

154.
‘
I did not know what a private parlour was …
’ From
Karl Marx: Biographical Memoirs
by Wilhelm Liebknecht, translated by E. Untermann (London, 1901).

156.
‘
The
Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Politisch-ökonomische Revue
…
’
Westdeutsche Zeitung
, 8 January 1850.

156.
‘
I have little doubt that by the time …
’ Letter from KM to Joseph Weydemeyer, 19 December 1849.

156.
‘
What succumbed in these defeats was not the revolution …
’ From ‘The Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850’, translated in
MECW
, Vol. 10, pp. 47–145.

157.
‘
the whole was tactfully seasoned with pungent attacks …
’ From
Karl Marx: A Study in Fanaticism
by E. H. Carr (J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1934).

157.
‘
I beg you to send us as soon as possible any money …
’ Letter from Jenny Marx to Joseph Weydemeyer, 20 May 1850.

157.
‘
Pray do not be offended by my wife’s agitated letters …
’ Letter from KM to Joseph Weydemeyer, 27 June 1850.

158.
‘
Let me describe for you, as it really was, just one day in our lives …
’ Letter from Jenny Marx to Joseph Weydemeyer, 20 May 1850.

160.
‘
My husband and all the rest of us have missed you sorely …
’ Letter from Jenny Marx to FE, 2 December 1850.

161.
‘
I am writing today just to tell you …
’ Letter from FE to KM, 25 November 1850.

161.
‘
With such a salary, all should be well …
’ Letter from FE to KM,
c
. 6July 1851.

161.
‘
last year, thank God, I gobbled up half of my old man’s profits …
’ FE to KM, 10 March 1853.

161.
‘
Really, Sir, we should never have thought …
’
Spectator
, 15 June 1850.

163.
‘
The murder of Princes is formally taught and discussed …
’ FO 64/317, Public Record Office, London.

163.
‘
this report is oddly convincing …
’
Marx
by Robert Payne (W. H. Allen, London, 1968).

166.
‘
A complete office has now been set up in our house …
’ Letter from Jenny Marx to Adolf Cluss, 30 October 1852.

167.
‘
A few minutes before, he was laughing and joking …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 19 November 1850.

167.
‘
For two whole days …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 23 November 1850.

168.
‘
For the letter you wrote yesterday …
’ Letter from KM to Eduard von Müller-Tellering, 12 March 1850.

170.
‘
He leads the existence of a real bohemian intellectual …
’ Report of anonymous German police spy, in
KMIR
, pp. 34–6.

171.
‘
I know from General [Engels] himself that Freddy Demuth is Marx’s son …
’ Original in International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam; first published in
Karl Marx
by Werner Blumenberg (Rowohlt, 1962; English edition published by Verso, London, 1972).

173.
‘
there can be no reasonable doubt that he [Freddy] was Marx’s son …
’ From
Eleanor Marx: Volume One, Family Life 1855–1883
by Yvonne Kapp (Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1972).

173.
‘
possibly by Nazi agents …
’
Friedrich Engels: His Life and Thought
by Terrell Carver (Macmillan, London and Basingstoke, 1989).

174.
‘
Research into the life of Frederick Demuth and of his relations …
’ Letter from Terrell Carver,
Sunday Times
, London, 27 June 1982.

176.
‘
I, of course, would make a joke of the whole dirty business …
’ Letter from KM to Joseph Weydemeyer, 2 August 1851.

177.
‘
If only there were some means …
’ Letter from FE to KM, 20 April 1852.

7 The Hungry Wolves

181.
‘
Byron and Leibniz rolled into one …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 22 April 1854.

181.
‘
I can’t conceive what you still need him for …
’ Letter from FE to KM, 1 June 1853.

181.
‘
he kept his rendezvous with the old cow …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 13 February 1856.

181.
‘
her entire person green …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 10 April 1856.

182.
‘
I am,
hélas
, once again saddled with Pieper …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 27 July 1854.

182.
‘
It transpired that his “indispensability” was merely a figment …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 23 April 1857.

182.
‘
The combination of dilettantism and sententiousness …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 7 January 1858.

183.
‘
I find myself in a fix …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 21 June 1854.

184.
‘
The sea is doing my wife a lot of good …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 13 August 1858.

184.
‘
I for my part wouldn’t care a damn about living in Whitechapel …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 15 July 1858.

184.
‘
It is true my house is beyond my means …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 31 July 1865.

185.
‘
Though I’ve racked my brains …
’ Letter from FE to KM, 16 July 1858.

185.
‘
I wish some of our lads in London …
’ Letter from FE to KM, 11 January 1853.

186.
‘
I would long ago have been obliged …
’ Letter from KM to Ludwig Kugelmann, 25 October 1866.

186.
‘
Engels really has too much work …
’ Letter from KM to Adolf Cluss, 18 October 1853.

187.
‘
The Parliamentary debates of the week offer but little of interest …
’
New York Daily Tribune
, 15 March 1853.

187.
‘
Days of general election …
’
New York Daily Tribune
, 4 September 1852.

187.
‘
There is something in human history like retribution …
’
New York Daily Tribune
, 16 September 1857.

187.
‘
What he aims at is not the substance …
’
New York Daily Tribune, 19
October 1853.

188.
‘
so far advanced that I will have finished …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 2 April 1851.