Karl Marx: Man and Fighter (RLE Marxism)

by Boris Nicolaievsky, Gwenda David (Translator), Otto Maenchen-Helfen, Otto Maenchen-Helfen (Translator)

Overview

Strife has raged about Karl Marx for decades, and never had it been so embittered as at the time of this book’s first publication, 1936. Marx had impressed his image on the time as not other had done. To some he was – and still is – a fiend, the arch-enemy of human civilisation, and the prince of chaos, while to others he is a far-seeing and beloved leader, guiding the human race towards a brighter future. The arena in which Marx was fought about in 1936 was in the factories, in the parliaments and at the barricades. In both camps, the bourgeois and the socialist, Marx was first of all, if not exclusively, the revolutionary. This book sets out to describe the life of Marx the fighter.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138892576
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/14/2016
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Marxism
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Boris Nicolaievsky, Otto Maenchen-Helfen, Gwenda David, Eric Mosbacher

Table of Contents

1. Origins and Childhood 2. A Happy Year at Bonn 3. Jenny von Westphalen 4. Student Years in Berlin 5. Philosophy Under Censorship 6. The Germans Learn French 7. The Communist Artisans of Paris 8. The Life-Long Friend 9. Clarification 10. Face to Face With Primitive Communism 11. The Communist League 12. The Revolutionary Tempest 13. The ‘Mad Year’ in Cologne 14. Defeat With Honour 15. The End of the Communist League 16. The Sleepless Night of Exile 17. The International Working Men’s Association 18. Michael Bakunin 19. The Franco-Prussian War 20. The Downfall of the International 21. The Last Ten Years