Karl Marx (52 page)

247.
‘
If I were quite free …
’ Letter from KM to Antoinette Philips, 13 April 1861.

247.
‘
I myself feel small longing for the fatherland …
’ Letter from Jenny Marx to FE, beginning of April 1861.

247.
‘
a very distinguished lady, no bluestocking …
’ Letter from KM to Antoinette Philips, 24 March 1861.

247.
‘
It is now quite plain to me …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 30 July 1862.

248.
‘
The fact that I have already spent what I brought back …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 19 June 1861.

249.
‘
Every day my wife says she wishes she and the children were safely in their graves …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 18 June 1862.

250.
‘
Since I last saw him a year ago he’s gone quite mad …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 30 July 1862.

250.
‘
He was almost crushed under the weight of the fame …
’ From ‘Short Sketch of an Eventful Life’ by Jenny Marx, translated in
RME
, p. 234.

251.
‘
Is there to be an outright split between us …
’ Letter from KM to Lassalle, 7 November 1862.

251.
‘
which perhaps you’d have to envy me!
’ Letter from Lassalle to Bismarck, 8 June 1863, translated in
Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution, Volume IV: Critique of Other Socialisms
by Hal Draper (Monthly Review Press, New York, 1990), p. 55.

253.
‘
Such a thing could only happen to Lassalle …
’ Letter from FE to KM, 4 September 1864.

253.
‘
Heaven knows, our ranks are being steadily depleted …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 7 September 1864.

253.
‘
he died young, at a time of triumph …
’ Letter from KM to Sophie von Hatzfeldt, 12 September 1864.

254.
‘
A fine Christmas show …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 24 December 1862.

254.
‘
If only I knew how to start some sort of business!
’ Letter from KM to FE, 20 August 1862.

254.
‘
It is a curious and not unmeaning circumstance …
’ From ‘The Socialism of Karl Marx and the Young Hegelians’ by John Rae,
Contemporary Review
vol. XL, October 1881, p. 585.

254.
‘
too scientific for the English
Review-reader
…
’ Letter from KM to Collet Dobson Collet, 6 September 1871.

255.
‘
cheap publications containing the wildest and most anarchical doctrines …
’
The Times
, 2 September 1851.

255.
‘
In May 1869 he joined the Royal Society …
’ See ‘The “Red Doctor” Amongst the Virtuosi: Karl Marx and the Society’ by D. G. C. Allan,
Journal of the Royal Society of Arts
, Vol. 129 (1981), pp. 259–61 and 309–311.

256.
‘
Of all dreary concerns a
conversazione
certainly is the dreariest …
’ Letter from Jenny Marx (daughter) to FE, 2 July 1869.

257.
‘
Now we had enough of our “beer trip” …
’ From
Karl Marx: Biographical Memories
by Wilhelm Liebknecht, translated by E. Untermann (London, 1901).

258.
‘
by 1860 Marx was not interested in acquiring English disciples …
’ From ‘The Introduction and Critical Reception of Marxist Thought in Britain, 1850–1900’ by Kirk Willis,
The Historical Journal
, 20, 2 (1977), pp. 417 459.

258.
‘
I myself, by the by, am working away hard …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 18 June 1862.

259.
‘
I was delighted to see from your letter …
’ Letter from KM to Ludwig Kugelmann, 28 December 1862.

9 The Bulldogs and the Hyena

263.
‘
Dear Marx, You will find it quite in order …
’ Letter from FE to KM, 13 January 1863.

264.
‘
It was very wrong of me to write you that letter …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 24 January 1863.

265.
‘
Thank you for being so candid …
’ Letter from FE to KM, 26 January 1863.

265.
‘
Fate laid claim to one of our family …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 2 December 1863.

266.
‘
all my books furniture and effects …
’ From ‘
Last will and testament of
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Wolff
’, Manchester Probate Court, Register No. 1 (1864), Folio 606.

267.
‘
Your philistine on the spree …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 25 July 1864.

268.
‘
I have, which will surprise you not a little, been speculating …
’ Letter from KM to Lion Philips, 25 June 1864.

268.
‘
had I had the money during the past ten days …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 4 July 1864.

268.
‘
Salut, ô connétable de Saint Pancrace
!
’ Letter from FE to KM, 28 June 1868.

269.
‘
I should tell them that I was a foreigner …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 27 June 1868.

271.
‘
M. Adolphe Bartels claims that public life is finished for him …
’ From ‘Remarks on the Article by M. Adolphe Bartels’ by Karl Marx,
Deutsche-Brüsseler-Zeitung
, 19 December 1847.

272.
‘
whereas you are a
poet
, I am a
critic
…
’ Letter from KM to Ferdinand Freiligrath, 29 February 1860.

273.
‘
When you come back to England from any foreign country …
’ From
The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius
by George Orwell (Secker & Warburg, London, 1941).

273.
‘
People are beginning to understand …
’
Northern Star
, 19 June 1847.

274.
‘
As soon as the Hyena entered the brewery …
’ For accounts of the Haynau affair, see
The Chartist Challenge: A Portrait of George Julian Harney
by A. R. Schoyen (Heinemann, London, 1958);
A History of the Chartist Movement
by Julius West (Constable, London, 1920);
The Common People 1746–1938
by G. D. H. Cole and Raymond Postgate (Methuen, London, 1938); and Harney’s editorial in
Red Republican
, 14 September 1850.

275.
‘
a curious amalgam of political and industrial action …
’ From
The Age of Capital 1848–1875
by E. J. Hobsbawm (Abacus, London, 1977), pp. 134–5.

275.
‘
the working men themselves spoke
very well indeed
…
’ Letter from KM to FE, 9 April 1863.

275.
‘
Marx’s contempt for humanity …
’ From
Marx
by Robert Payne (W. H. Allen, London, 1968), p. 322.

276.
‘
Marx’s sceptical view of the proletariat’s ability …
’ From
The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx
by Shlomo Avineri (Cambridge University Press, 1968), p. 63.

276.
‘
You will search the works of Marx …
’ For a thorough dissection of Avineri’s errors, see the appendix to
Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution – Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
by Hal Draper (Monthly Review Press, New York, 1978), pp. 635ff.

277.
‘
The author of this article is himself a
worker
…
’ From the
Neue Rheinische Zeitung, Politisch-ökonomische Revue
, Nos. 5–6, 1850.

278.
‘
the most tragic thing …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 9 February 1859.

278.
‘
is again going to pieces in his sweatshop …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 18 May 1859.

279.
‘
By way of demonstration against the French monsieurs …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 26 September 1866.

279.
‘
Citizen Marx did not think there was anything to fear …
’ All quotations from the minutes are taken from
The General Council of the First International
, a five-volume collection of the Council’s record-books, published by Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow.

281.
‘
a fearfully cliché-ridden, badly written and totally unpolished preamble …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 4 November 1864.

284.
‘
That damned boy Lafargue …
’ Letter from KM to Laura Marx, 20 March 1866.

284.
‘
our friend Lafargue, and others who had abolished nationalities …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 20 June 1866.

285.
‘
What a waste of time!
’ Letter from KM to FE, 13 March 1865.

285.
‘
Moor’s life without the International would be a diamond ring …
’ Letter from FE to Laura Lafargue (née Marx), 24 June 1883

285.
‘
I have always half-expected that the naïve
fraternité
…
’ Letter from FE to KM, 12 April 1865.

286.
‘
There is
nothing
I can do in Prussia at the moment …
’ Letter from KM to Ludwig Kugelmann, 23 February 1865.

287.
‘
If we succeed in re-electrifying the political movement …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 1 May 1865.

289.
‘
For two months I have been living solely on the pawnshop …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 31 July 1865.

290.
‘
My dear Lafargue …
’ Letter from KM to Paul Lafargue, 13 August 1866.

291.
‘
Lafargue has the blemish customarily found in the negro tribe …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 11 November 1882.

291.
‘
You know that I have sacrificed my whole fortune …
’ Letter from KM to Paul Lafargue, 13 August 1866.

291.
‘
a great relief for the entire household …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 6 March 1868.

291.
‘
At the wedding lunch Engels cracked so many jokes …
’ See letter from Laura Lafargue to FE, 6 March 1893, in the Engels-Lafargue
Correspondence
, Vol. III, pp. 246–7.

291.
‘
As I am in the habit of keeping in the background …
’ Letter from Laura Marx to FE, 16 October 1893, in the Engels-Lafargue
Correspondence
, Vol. III, p. 304.

292.
‘
In all these struggle we women have the harder part …
’ Letter from Jenny Marx to Wilhelm Liebknecht, 26 May 1872.

10 The Shaggy Dog

293.
‘
Opposite the window and on either side of the fireplace …
’ From ‘Reminiscences of Marx’ by Paul Lafargue, in
RME
, p. 73.

294.
‘
What swine they are!
’ Letter from KM to FE, 22 June 1867.

295.
‘
I can also hardly leave my family in their present situation …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 2 April 1867.

295.
‘
What was keeping this beautiful creature so spellbound …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 13 April 1867.

296.
‘
he
understands
, and he is a really
excellent man
…
’ Letter from KM to FE, 24 April 1867.

298.
‘
and then the torments of family life …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 7 May 1867.

298.
‘
my children are obliged to invite some other girls for dancing …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 22 June 1867.

298.
‘
So,
this volume is finished
. I owe it to
you
alone …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 16 August 1867.

299.
‘
I only got as far as page two …
’
Conversations
by Kenneth Harris (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1967), p. 268. Wilson repeated the claim in an interview with
The Times
, 2 August 1976.

300.
‘
Pauperism forms a condition of capitalist production …
’ From
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy
, Vol. 1, by Karl Marx, translated by Ben Fowkes (Pelican Books, London, in association with
New Left Review
, 1976), p. 797.

300.
‘
It follows therefore that in proportion as capital accumulates …
’ Ibid. p. 799.

301.
‘
It must be borne in mind …
’
Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution
, Vol. 1, by Leszek Kolakowski (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1978), p. 291.

301.
‘
As an interpretation of economic phenomena …
’ Ibid., p. 329.

302.
‘
As the exchangeable values of commodities …
’ Lectures by Karl Marx to the General Council of the First International, 20 and 27 June 1865, published as the pamphlet
Value, Price and Profit
, edited by Eleanor Marx-Aveling (London, 1898).

304.
‘
the bourgeois science of economics had reached the limits …
’ Afterword to the second German edition of
Capital
, 1873.

306.
‘
Now it is true that the tailoring …
’
Capital
, Vol. 1, pp. 142–3.