227. ‘mere lemonade on the one hand … ’ Letter from KM to FE, 8 December 1857.
227. ‘for the benefit of the public it is absolutely essential … ’ Letter from KM to FE, 18 December 1857.
230. ‘provided one has the time and money … ’ Letter from KM to FE, 1 February 1858.
231. ‘He [Lassalle] seems to see himself quite differently … ’ Letter from KM to FE, 5 March 1856.
232. ‘I carefully perused your Heraclitus … ’ Letter from KM to Lassalle, 31 May 1858.
232. ‘The work I am presently concerned with … ’ Letter from KM to Lassalle, 22 February 1858.
232. ‘Alas, we are so used to these excuses … ’ Letter from FE to Nikolai Danielson, 13 November 1885.
233. ‘my sickness always originates in the mind … ’ Letter from KM to FE, 19 October 1867.
233. ‘the worsening of his condition is largely attributable … ’ Letter from Jenny Marx to FE, 9 April 1858.
233. ‘Moor has been out riding … ’ Letter from FE to Jenny Marx, 11 May 1858.
234. ‘Since the all but completed manuscript of the first volume … ’ Letter from KM to Carl Friedrich Julius Leske, 1 August 1846.
234. ‘Now let me tell you how my political economy is coming on … ’ Letter from KM to Lassalle, 22 February 1858.
234. ‘I don’t suppose anyone has ever written about “money” when so short … ’ Letter from KM to FE, 21 January 1859.
235. ‘it will be weeks before I am able to send it … ’ Letter from KM to FE, 22 October 1858.
235. ‘the most appalling toothache … ’ Letter from KM to FE, 10 November 1858.
235. ‘All that I was concerned with was the form … ’ Letter from KM to Lassalle, 12 November 1858.
236. ‘My wife is quite right … ’ Letter from KM to FE, 11 December 1858.
236. ‘The manuscript amounts to about twelve sheets … ’ Letter from KM to FE, 13–15 January 1859.
236. ‘The general result at which I arrived … ’ From ‘Preface to A Critique of Political Economy’ by Karl Marx, translated in MESW, Vol. 1, pp. 361ff.
238. ‘overcome by a kind of cholera … ’ Letter from KM to FE, 22 July 1859.
238. ‘The secret hopes we had long nourished … ’ Letter from Jenny Marx to FE, 23 or 24 December 1859.
239. ‘First we drank port, then claret … ’ From Mein Prozess gegen die Allgemeine Zeitung by Karl Vogt (Geneva, 1859), translated in KMIR, pp. 17–19.
242. ‘By means of an ingenious system of concealed plumbing … ’ From Herr Vogt by Karl Marx, in MECW, Vol. 17, p. 243.
243. ‘A circumstance that has been of great help to me … ’ Letter from KM to FE, 28 November 1860.
244. ‘I became hourly more ill … ’ Letter from Jenny Marx to Louise Weydemeyer, 11 March 1861.
245. ‘I am as tormented as Job … ’ Letter from KM to FE, 18 January 1861.
246. ‘eternally smiling and grinning … ’ Letter from KM to Antoinette Philips, 24 March 1861.
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.
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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.
307. ‘L—d! said my mother, what is all this story about?’ From The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. by Laurence Sterne, in The Works of Laurence Sterne, Vol. 1 (Bickers & Son, London, 1885).
308. ‘broke with the tradition of contemporary writing … ’ Laurence Sterne: A Fellow of Infinite Jest by Thomas Yoseloff (Francis Aldor, London, 1948), p. 87.
308. ‘A philosopher produces ideas, a poet poems … ’ MECW, Vol. 30, pp. 306–310.
310. ‘The meaning of the impersonal-looking formulas … ’ To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson (Macmillan, London, 1972), pp. 340–2.
310. ‘the author’s views may be as pernicious as we conceive them to be … ’ Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, London, 18 January 1868.
311. ‘we do not suspect that Karl Marx has much to teach us … ’ Contemporary Review, London, June 1868.
312. ‘The thing would have looked somewhat like a school textbook … ’ Letter from FE to KM, 16 June 1867.
312. ‘How could you leave the outward structure … ’ Letter from FE to KM, 23 August 1867.
312. ‘Please be so good as to tell your good wife … ’ Letter from KM to Kugelmann, 30 November 1867.
312. ‘My sickness always originates in the mind.’ Letter from KM to FE, 19 October 1867.
313. ‘The main thing is that the book should be discussed … ’ Letter from FE to Ludwig Kugelmann, 8 and 20 November 1867.
313. ‘There can be few books that have been written in more difficult circumstances … ’ Letter from Jenny Marx to Ludwig Kugelmann, 24 December 1867.
313. ‘You can have no idea of the delight … ’ Ibid.
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316. ‘The struggle between the two lies at the very heart and core of all debates … ’ Karl Marx: A Political Biography by Fritz J. Raddatz, translated by Richard Barry (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1978), p. 207.
316. ‘the man of generous, uncontrollable impulses … ’ Karl Marx by E. H. Carr (J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1934), p. 224.
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bsp; 316. ‘Bakunin differed from Marx as poetry differs from prose … ’ Karl Marx: His Life and Environment by Isaiah Berlin (Butterworth, London, 1939), p. 79.
317. ‘I am now at the head of a communist secret society … ’ From Archives Bakounine, edited by A. Lehning (International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, 1967).
317. ‘Bakunin is our friend … ’ From ‘Democratic Pan-Slavism’ by Friedrich Engels, Neue Rheinische Zeitung, 15 February 1849.
318. ‘Bakunin has become a monster … ’ Letter from KM to FE, 12 September 1863.
318. ‘I must say I liked him very much … ’ Letter from KM to FE, 4 November 1864.
320. ‘Bakunin assured him that the International was an excellent institution … ’ From Michael Bakunin by E. H. Carr (Vintage Books, New York, 1961).
321. ‘Whatever turn the impending horrid war may take … ’ From an address ‘To the Members of the International Working Men’s Association in Europe and the United States’, published by the IWMA, July 1870.
321. ‘John Stuart Mill sent a message of congratulation … ’ General Council minutes, 22 August 1870.
321. ‘would naturally have serious consequences … ’ Letter from KM to Ferdinand Lassalle, 4 February 1859.
322. ‘I have been totally unable to sleep … ’ Letter from KM to FE, 17 August 1870.
322. ‘I wish this because the definite defeat of Bonaparte … ’ Letter from KM to Paul and Laura Lafargue, 28 July 1870.
322. ‘All the French, even the tiny number of better ones … ’ Letter from Jenny Marx to FE, 10 August 1870.
322. ‘My confidence in the military achievements of the Germans grows daily … ’ Letter from FE to KM, 31 July 1870.
322. ‘One cannot conceal from oneself … ’ Letter from KM to FE, 8 August 1870.
323. ‘we were not mistaken as to the vitality … ’ From an Address ‘To the Members of the International Working Men’s Association in Europe and the United States’, published by the IWMA, September 1870.
323. ‘What the Prussian jackasses do not see … ’ Letter from KM to Friedrich Adolph Sorge, 1 September 1870.
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