Karl Marx (49 page)

39.
‘
Last Sunday we had a moustache evening …
’ Letter from FE to Marie Engels, 29 October 1840.

40.
‘
I subjected this idea to police-examination …
’
Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe
, I i (2), p. 257, translated in
Karl Marx
by Werner Blumenberg (New Left Books, London, 1972).

40.
‘
and then suddenly going to another table …
’ From
Erlebtes
by Karl Heinzen (Boston, Mass, 1874), translated in
KMIR
, pp. 5–6.

41.
‘
the most stupid person of the century …
’ See
Against the Current: The Life of Karl Heinzen 1809–80
by Carl Wittke (University of Chicago Press, 1945).

42.
‘
The style is the dagger used for a well-aimed thrust …
’ From
Karl Marx: Biographical Memoirs
by Wilhelm Liebknecht, translated by E. Untermann (London, 1901).

44.
‘
The
Rheinische Zeitung
, which does not even admit …
’
Rheinische Zeitung
, 16 October 1842, translated in
MECW
, Vol. 1, p. 220.

44.
‘
I regard it as inappropriate …
’ Letter from KM to Arnold Ruge, 30 November 1842.

44.
‘
As editor of the
Rheinische Zeitung
, I experienced …
’ From
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
(1859), translated in
The Portable Karl Marx
(Penguin Books, New York, 1983), p. 158.

45.
‘
By analogy with this, the legislator would have to draw the conclusion …
’
Rheinische Zeitung
, 25 October 1842, translated in
MECW
, Vol. 1, p. 225.

45.
‘
Do not imagine that we on the Rhine live in a political Eldorado …
’ Letter from KM to Arnold Ruge, 9 July 1842.

46.
‘
One evening the censor had been invited …
’ From ‘Karl Marx als Mensch’ by Wilhelm Blos,
Die Glocke
v (1919), translated in
KMIR
, pp. 3–4.

47.
‘
Our newspaper has to be presented to the police to be sniffed at …
’ Letter from KM to Arnold Ruge, 25 January 1843.

48.
‘
I had begun to be stifled in that atmosphere …
’ Letter from KM to Arnold Ruge, 25 January 1843.

48.
‘
For my sake, my fiancée has fought the most violent battles …
’ Letter from KM to Arnold Ruge, 13 March 1843.

49.
‘
Ah, dear, dear sweetheart, now you get yourself involved in politics …
’ Letter from Jenny von Westphalen to KM, 10 August 1841.

50.
‘
I entered Jenny’s room one evening …
’ From
Red Jenny: A Life with Karl Marx
by H. F. Peters (Allen & Unwin, London, 1986).

51.
‘
So, sweetheart, since your last letter I have tortured myself …
’ Letter from Jenny von Westphalen to KM,
c
. 1839–40.

54.
‘
The entire German police is at his disposal …
’ Letter from KM to Ludwig Feuerbach, 3 October 1843.

55.
‘
I am glad to have an opportunity of assuring you …
’ Letter from KM to Ludwig Feuerbach, 11 August 1844.

55.
‘
It is now quite plain to me …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 30 July 1862.

56.
‘
What is the secular basis of Judaism?
’
Karl Marx: Early Writings
, translated
by Rodney Livingstone and Gregor Benton (Pelican Books, London, 1975), pp. 212–41.

58.
‘
Religious suffering is at one and the same time …
’
Karl Marx: Early Writings
, translated by Rodney Livingstone and Gregor Benton (Pelican Books, London, 1975), pp. 243–57.

3 The Grass-eating King

62.
‘
The bourgeois King’s loss of prestige among the people …
’ From
Zwei Jahre in Paris
by Arnold Ruge (Leipzig, 1846).

62.
‘
Frau Herwegh summed up the situation at first glance …
’ From
1848: Briefe von und an Herwegh
, edited by Marcel Herwegh (Munich, 1898), translated in
KMIR
, pp. 6–7.

62.
‘
finishes nothing, breaks off everything …
’ From
Arnold Ruges Briefwechsel und Tagebuchblätter aus den Jahren 1825–80
, edited by P. Nerrlich (Berlin, 1886), translated in
KMIR
, pp. 8–9.

63.
‘
His wife gave him for his birthday a riding switch …
’ Letter from Arnold Ruge to Julius Fröbel, 4 June 1844.

63.
‘
The poor little doll was quite miserable …
’ Letter from Jenny Marx to KM, 21 June 1844.

64.
‘
Marx was then much more advanced than I was …
’ From
Mikhail Bakunin and Karl Marx
by K. Kenafick (Melbourne, 1948), p. 25.

65.
‘
He loved the poet as much as his works …
’ From
KMIR
, p. 10.

66.
‘
had not other personal differences …
’ From
Karl Marx: Man and Fighter
by Boris Nicolaievsky and Otto Maenchen-Helfen (Methuen, London, 1936).

66.
‘
I was incensed by Herwegh’s way of living …
’ From
Arnold Ruges Briefwechsel und Tagebuchblätter aus den Jahren 1825–80
, edited by P. Nerrlich (Berlin, 1886), translated in
Karl Marx: Man and Fighter
.

66.
‘
Although the spirit is willing, the flesh is weak …
’ Letter from Jenny Marx to KM, 11–18 August 1844.

67.
‘
Some would sit on the bed or on the trunks …
’ From
Fünfunsiebzig Jahre in der alten und neuen Welt
by Heinrich Börnstein (Leipzig, 1881).

68.
‘
it represents man’s protest …
’ From ‘Critical Marginal Notes on the Article “The King of Prussia and Social Reform. By a Prussian.”’
Vorwärts!
, 7 and 10 August 1844. Translated in
MECW
, Vol. 3, pp. 189–206.

72.
‘
a second Frankenstein on my back …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 4 December 1863.

72.
‘
From the front, the man who regales
his inner man
…
’ Letter from KM to FE, 27 December 1863.

72.
‘
Of the many wonderful tales …
’ From ‘Karl Marx: A Few Stray Notes’ by Eleanor Marx,
RME
, pp. 251–2.

74.
‘
Although in political and economic discussion he was not wont to mince his words …
’ From
Karl Marx: Biographical Memoirs
by Wilhelm Liebknecht, translated by E. Untermann (London, 1901).

76.
‘
When I visited Marx in Paris in the summer of 1844 …
’ From ‘On the History of the Communist League’, by FE, 1885, translated in
The Cologne Communist Trial
(Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1971).

76.
‘
so pronounced that even in old age …
’ From
Friedrich Engels: A Biography
by Gustav Mayer, translated by Gilbert and Helen Highet, edited by R. H. S. Crossman (Chapman & Hall, London, 1936).

77.
‘
He’s a terribly nice fellow …
’ Letter from FE to Friedrich and Wilhelm Graeber, 1 September 1838.

78.
‘
Go home again, exotic guests!
’
MECW
, Vol. 2, p. 4.

78.
‘
It has become clear to me …
’ Letter from FE to Friedrich and Wilhelm Graeber, 17–18 September 1838.

78.
‘
It is extraordinarily good …
’ Letter from FE to Friedrich and Wilhelm Graeber, 1 September 1838.

79.
‘
What shall I, poor devil, do now?
’ Letter from FE to Friedrich Graeber, 8 April 1839.

80.
‘
Ha, ha, ha!
’ Letter from FE to Friedrich Graeber, 24 April 1839.

81.
‘
Masses of refuse, offal and sickening filth …
’
The Condition of the Working Class in England
by Friedrich Engels (London, 1892).

83.
‘
I simply cannot understand how anyone can be envious of genius …
’ Letter from FE to Eduard Bernstein, 25 October 1881.

85.
‘
See to it that the material you’ve collected is soon launched …
’ Letter from FE to KM, beginning of October 1844.

85.
‘
I find all this theoretical twaddle daily more tedious …
’ Letter from FE to KM, 19 November 1844.

85.
‘
The
Critical Criticism
has still not arrived!
’ Letter from FE to KM, 22 February–7 March 1845.

86.
‘
If I get a letter, it’s sniffed all over …
’ Letter from FE to KM, 17 March 1845.

86.
‘
pleasantly surprised to find that we have no need to feel ashamed …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 24 April 1867.

4: The Mouse in the Attic

89.
‘
If amazement at this peculiar movement makes one think again …
’
Vorwärts
!, 17 August 1844, translated in
MECW
, Vol. 3, pp. 207–210.

91.
‘
I fear that in the end you’ll be molested …
’ Letter from FE to KM, 22
February–7 March 1845.

91.
‘
Her jam tarts are a sweet and abiding memory …
’ From ‘My Recollections of Karl Marx’ by Marian Comyn, in
Nineteenth Century and After
, Vol. XCI (1922), pp. 161ff.

92.
‘
The little house should do …
’ Letter from Jenny Marx to KM, after 24 August 1845.

92.
‘
It seemed to me very important …
’ Letter from KM to Karl Leske, 1 August 1846.

93.
‘
The chief defect of all previous materialism …
’ From ‘Theses on Feuerbach’ by Karl Marx,
MECW
, Vol. 5, pp. 3–5.

94.
‘
Once upon a time a valiant fellow …
’
The German Ideology
by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels,
MECW
, Vol. 5, pp. 19–531.

101.
‘
Where among the bourgeoisie …
’ From ‘Critical Marginal Notes on the Article by a Prussian’ by Karl Marx,
Vorwärts!
, 10 August 1844.

101.
‘
If I tell you what kind of life we have been leading here …
’ Letter from Joseph Weydemeyer to Louise Lüning, 2 February 1846, published in the
Münchner Post
, 30 April 1926.

102.
‘
He was now the great man …
’ From ‘On the History of the Communist League’ by Friedrich Engels,
MECW
, Vol. 26, p. 320.

102.
‘
the fellow’s utter lack of respect while he conversed with me …
’ Quoted in
To the Finland Station
by Edmund Wilson (Macmillan, London, 1972 edition), pp. 193–4.

103.
‘
Marx was the type of man …
’ From ‘A Wonderful Ten Years’ by Pavel Annenkov, in
RME
, pp. 269–72.

105.
‘
presents communism as the love-imbued opposite of selfishness …
’ From ‘Circular Against Kriege’ by Marx and Engels, 11 May 1846; translated in
MECW
, Vol. 6, pp. 35–51.

106.
‘
So far as France is concerned …
’ Letter from KM to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 5 May 1846.

107.
‘
Let us, if you wish, collaborate in trying to discover the laws of society …
’
Confessions d’un révolutionnaire
by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (Paris, 1849).

107.
‘
Monsieur Proudhon has the misfortune of being peculiarly misunderstood …
’
Misère de La Philosophie
by Karl Marx (published by A. Frank, Paris, and C. G. Vogler, Brussels, 1847).

109.
‘
Our affair will prosper greatly here …
’ Letter from FE to Communist Correspondence Committee, 19 August 1846.

110.
‘
It is disgraceful that one should have to pit oneself …
’ Letter from FE to KM, 18 September 1846.

110.
‘
By dint of a little patience and some terrorism …
’ Letter from FE to KM, about 18 October 1846.

111.
‘
The stench is like five thousand unaired featherbeds …
’ Letter from FE to KM, 9 March 1847.

111.
‘
If at all possible, do come here some time in April …
’ Letter from FE to KM, 9 March 1847.

112.
‘
give his word of honour to work loyally …
’ From ‘Rules of the Communist League’, adopted at the First Congress, June 1847.

112.
‘
However minor it may be …
’ Letter from KM to Herwegh, 26 October 1847.

112.
‘
We have tried on the one hand to refrain from all system-making …
’ From ‘A Circular of the First Congress of the Communist League to the League Members, 9 June 1847’, translated in
MECW
, Vol. 6, p. 589.

5 The Frightful Hobgoblin

115.
‘
Question 1:
Are you a Communist?
’ From ‘Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith’ by Friedrich Engels,
MECW
, Vol. 6, pp. 96–103.