contribution to The Communist Manifesto 115–19
contribution to The German Ideology 93–9
contribution to The Holy Family 85, 87
criticises KM’s journalism 131–2
criticises structure of Capital 311–12
denounces Heinzen 41
discovers KM dead 381
expelled from Belgium 1848 138
falls out with KM 262–5
financial support for KM 85, 91, 141, 152–3, 160–1, 183–6, 222–3, 236, 248, 251, 263–5, 267, 295, 297, 349
first impressions of KM 37, 75–6
flees Cologne 1848 137–8
follows KM to Belgium 90
friendship with KM 83–4
ghost writes KM’s articles for Tribune 186–7, 218–19
ghost writes KM’s entries for New American Cyclopedia 224–7
hatred of Prussian officialdom 136
in Germany (1848) 130–2, 136
in Paris (1846) 109–113
knowledge of KM’s infidelities 172–3
meets working-class revolutionaries 98–100
on 1848 revolutions 125
on English proletariat 206
on German elections (1881) 376
on German National Assembly 133
on Julian Harney 198–200
on KM’s bourgeois habits 268
on KM’s contribution to International 285–6
on Marxism 68
on Neue Rheinische Zeitung 146
on power of the hirsute 38–9
on Weitling 102
on world financial crisis 1855 225–6
oration at KM’s funeral 1, 382
predicts world trade crisis 202–4, 222
relationship with parents 76, 79–80, 81, 85–6
takes job at Ermen & Engels 160–1
tours France 1848 140–1
works 75, 80–3, 91
Engels, Colonel Friedrich 144–5
England for All (Hyndman) 371–2
Ermen & Engels 77, 81, 160–1, 265
Ewerbeck, August Hermann 109–110
Favre, Jules 331, 334–5
Fay, Margaret 367–8
Feuerbach, Ludwig 17, 31, 93, 53–5, 86, 93–5
Flocon, Ferdinand 126
Franco-Prussian war 320–2, 341
Frankenstein (M. Shelley) 71–2
Freiligrath, Ferdinand 151, 203, 272, 298
Freyberger, Louise 171–4
Gans, Eduard 24, 31
Garibaldi, Giuseppe 275
German National Assembly 133–4
German Social Democratic Party 12, 153, 376
German Workers’ Club 128
German Workers’ Education Society 151, 153–5, 167–8
German Workers’ Educational Association see also League of the Just 98, 117–18, 124
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 9–10, 26
Gottschalk, Andreas 133–5, 145
Granville, Lord 332
Great Exhibition, The 249
Grün, Karl 106–7, 110, 112
Gulliver’s Travels (Swift) 305
‘Haynau incident’ 273–5
Harney, Julian 196–200, 273–4
Healey, Denis 12
Hecker, Friedrich 139
Hegel, G. W. F. 21–7, 31–7, 53–4, 72–3, 93, 119, 236, 244, 310
Heine, Heinrich 21, 64–5, 67–8, 79, 102
Heinzen, Karl, 40–2, 90, 153
Herwegh, Georg 62, 66–7, 112, 128–9
Hess, Moses 36–7, 43, 86, 90, 106, 116
How Do You Do? 192
Hyndman, Henry 370–3
International Alliance of Socialist Democracy 319, 338
International Working Men’s Association 272–88, 314, 318–26, 330–47
Jane Eyre (Brontë) 51
Jones, Ernest 190, 196, 200, 206–7
Kinkel, Gottfried 152, 189–94
Köppen, Karl Friedrich 39–40
Kriege, Hermann 105–6
Kugelmann, Ludwig 286, 295–6, 312–13, 357–8
La Réforme 126, 128
Labour Party (British) 4, 12
Lafargue, Paul 19, 284, 290–3, 343, 350–52, 386
Lassalle, Ferdinand 55, 207, 211, 230–5, 243, 245–7, 249–54, 286, 317
League of Outlaws 98, 116
League of the Just 98–9, 109–112, 116
Le Lubez, Victor 276, 281, 284
Le Moussu, Benjamin Constant 351
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich 2, 386
Leopold I 90
Leske, Karl 92–3
Lessner, Friedrich 38, 99, 117–18, 124–5, 172, 282, 284, 318
Levy, Joseph Moses 242–3, 248
Liebknecht, Wilhelm 38, 74–5, 123, 153–5, 217, 221, 238, 256–8, 286
Life and Teaching of Karl Marx, The (Lewis) 212
Lissagaray, Prosper Olivier 326, 352, 354
London Trades Council 275–6, 281, 288
Longuet, Charles 326, 343, 350, 351–2, 374
Louis Philippe, King 61–2, 90, 125
Lucas, Betty 50
Mao, Chairman 1–2
Marx, Edgar 111, 179, 216–18
Marx, Eleanor 8, 20, 55, 65, 72, 171–2, 174, 212, 215–16, 220–2, 234, 264, 268, 326, 352–9, 367, 371, 377, 379–81, 385–6
Marx, Franziska 175–7, 215
Marx, Heinrich (formerly Hirschel Marx) 10–11, 13–18, 28–30, 126
Marx, Heinrich Guido (‘Fawkesy’) 152, 160, 167
Marx, Henriette 9, 12, 19, 126, 246, 248, 265
Marx, Jenny (‘Jennychen’) 19–20, 63, 220, 234, 248, 256, 264, 267–8, 343, 350, 352, 379–81
Marx, Johanna Bertha Julie Jenny (formerly von Westphalen) arrested 127, 138
attempts to enlist financial support for her family 157–8, 159–60
attitude towards engagement 49
background 17–21
becomes KM’s secretary 182
bemoans poor reception of Capital 313
dies 376
effects of poverty upon 235–6, 249, 253–4 264
engagement to KM 18–20, 33–4
fears for KM’s faithfulness 66
health 235–6, 244–5, 373–6
incompetent parenting 63
inheritance 219, 266
intimidated by KM 50–1
marries KM 52
mourns loss of grandchildren 292
on Engels’s character 349
on Ferdinand Lassalle 250–1
on Franco-Prussian war 322
on Germany 247
on Grafton Terrace 220–3
on Marx family’s struggle for survival 157–9
on poor reception of Critique of Political Economy 238
opinion of Belgium 91
praises Engel’s vitality 261–2
pursued by Willich 164
reaction to KM’s infidelity 171, 174–7
MARX, KARL
Character:
absent-mindedness 40
agent of Satan 3
appetite for duelling 15–16, 164, 192
bourgeois patriarch 74–5, 180–5, 219–23, 240, 266, 268, 296, 298, 335–6, 342, 358–61
chess lover 122–23, 389
consumerism 63
defies physical limitations 13
denounces rivals 21, 41–3, 54, 61, 86–7, 93–5, 104–110, 135–6, 167–9, 189–95, 242–4, 247, 361
diplomatic caution 46–7
disorderliness 28–9, 62–3, 169–70, 293–4
dominant presence 117–18
drinking habits 14–15, 28–9, 34–5, 40–1, 44, 74–5, 91, 170, 256–7
effect of facial hair on others’ perception of 4, 37–9, 379
fencing technique 155–6
foul temper 169
gregarious loner 269–72
hopelessness with money 52
illegible handwriting 84–5
incompetent parenting 63–4
insensitivity 48, 50, 262–5
intellectual bully 42�
��4, 103–4, 106, 135, 153–5, 239–40, 332
love of cigars 294
oblivious to immediate surroundings 150–1
obsessive perfectionism 131–2, 233–4, 327, 363
oratory skills 39–40
passion for pseudonyms 152
procrastination 118–19
Proust Questionnaire 387–8
self-alienation 72–4
self-isolation 269–70, 359
snobbishness 276–80
storytelling talents 9, 72, 222
stylistic excess 58–9
taste for revelry 15–16, 28–9, 34–5, 40–1, 44, 74–5, 91, 256–7
teaching qualities 155
working habits 28–9, 53, 62–3, 118–19, 233–5, 238, 293–4
Childhood and Early Youth:
Berlin University 31–3
birthplace 7–12
Bonn university 14–16, 33 childhood 8, 12–14, 19
collects Ph.D. 33
early literary ambitions 22–6
Critical and polemical articles, essays, journalism and manuscripts:
An Address to the Working Classes 282–3
‘Circular Against Kriege’ 105–6
Civil War in France, The 327–35
Critique of Economics and Politics 92–3
‘Demands of the Communist Party in Germany’ 129–30
‘Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy’ 31–3
early untitled works 22–4
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts see Paris manuscripts
Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, The 9, 26, 189, 243, 323
Fictitious Splits in the International, The 341
German Ideology, The 93–8, 108
Great Men of the Exile, The 152, 168–9, 189, 191–3
Grundrisse der Kritik der Politischen Oekonomie (‘Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy’) 227–9
Herr Vogt 168, 242–3
Holy Family, or Critical Criticism: Against Bruno Bauer and Consorts, The 85–7, 296
Knight of the Noble Conscience, The 191
Last Trump of Judgement Against Hegel the Atheist and the Anti-Christ, The 34
‘On the Jewish Question’ 55–6, 64
Paris manuscripts 68–75, 227–8
‘Proclamation on Poland’ 269
Poverty of Philosophy, The 61, 108–110
Revelations Concerning the Communist Trial in Cologne 191
Secret Diplomatic History of the Eighteenth Century, The 212
Story of the Life of Lord Palmerston, The 212
Theses on Feuerbach 54, 93–5
‘Towards a Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: An Introduction’ 57–9, 64
Value, Price and Profit 302–3
Fame:
becomes infamous 330–37, 342
early 36–7
in England 254–8, 361–2, 369–73
Family:
affection for Edgar Marx 179–80, 216–17
affection for daughters 19–20, 215–16, 220–2, 248, 355, 371, 375, 377–8, 380–1
affection for grandchildren 359–60, 379
disregard for parents 29–30, 33, 265
hosts a ball for daughters 267–8
illegitimate child 171–5
mother withholds estate 34
opinion of his mother 12
paternal influence 7–9
reaction to death of Heinrich Georg Marx 219
reaction to death of Henrich Guido Marx 167
reaction to death of Franziska Marx 176–7
suspicious of son-in-laws 284, 290–1, 350–3
Finances:
at the pawn shop 184
attempts to find gainful employment 185, 254
attempts to raise loans 253
borrows money off baker 241
donates money to German workers for arms 127
effects of poverty on work 234–5
estate 385
extravagances 152, 180–5, 219–222, 266
flees creditors 218–19, 248
fortunes improve 219–221, 266–9
income from journalism 180
inheritance 34, 126–27, 131, 246, 265–8
lack of steady income 63–4, 111
mother cancels debts 248
object of debt proceedings 33
on the edge of destitution 158–9
receives bequest from Wilhelm Wolff 266–7
reliance on Engels’s charity 85, 91, 141, 152–3, 160, 179–80, 183–6, 222–3, 248, 251, 262–7, 295, 297, 349
speculates on the Stock Exchange 268
Health:
breakdowns 26
effect of writing Capital upon 297
psychosomatic influence 25–6, 232–3, 235, 243–5, 312–13, 326, 355
seriously deteriorating 376–83
suffers boils 72, 169, 265, 267, 287, 290, 294–5, 314
teenage 14–15
visits health resorts 355–8
Influences:
Bakunin 316–19
Chartism 142, 197–201, 204–5
Darwin 364–5
Engels 75–6, 85–7
Feuerbach 54–5, 93
Harney 198
Hegel 21–8, 31–7, 236, 244, 270, 310
Heine 65
Lassalle 230–32, 247–8
Owen 194
Proudhon 108–112
Ricardo 259, 304
Shakespeare 19–20
Smith (Adam) 259, 304
Swift 305, 309–10
tradition of Trier 9–10
Tremaux 364–5
Tristram Shandy 25, 307–8
Urquhart 208–13
von Westphalen (Baron) 18–19
Weitling 101–5
Literary works:
juvenile poetry 22–5
Oulanem 3–4, 26
Scorpion and Felix 25–6
Love-life:
engagement 18–21, 33, 48–50
falls in love 17
fathers illegitimate child 171–6
marriage 52
Movements:
applies for British citizenship 356–7
28 Dean Street 166–219
44 Maitland Park Road 359–83
64 Dean Street 152–66
9 Grafton Terrace 219–66
arrives in England 148–52
Belgium (1845) 90–126
Bonn (1841) 34
Cologne (1842) 34–9, 40–9
Cologne (1848–9) ‘the mad year’ 130–47
expelled from Belgium 126
expelled from Paris 90
leaves Germany (1848) 61–2
Modena Villas 266–359
Paris (1843–5) 61–91
Paris (1848) 126–30
Paris (1849) 147–8
Prussian citizenship 130–1, 245–8
tours Europe (1882) 377–9
visits Germany (1862) 246–8
visits Germany (1867) 295–8
Police harassment:
arrested 126
brushes with censors 45–8
harassed by Prussian authorities 136–7, 139, 143–7
spied upon 162–4, 170, 179, 337, 342
Political involvements:
Communist League 112, 116–19, 128, 130–1, 133–4, 151, 153, 165–6, 186, 191, 196–7, 239–40, 269
Doctors’ Club 26, 32, 34, 36–7, 39
German Workers’ Education Society 117–18, 124, 151, 153–5, 167–8
International Working Men’s Association 276–88, 314, 318–26, 330–47, 350
Reform League 287–8
Thoughts and beliefs:
advocates abolition of inheritance 129
ambivalent attitude towards England 200–06
anti-Semitism 55–7, 242–3, 247–8, 341
attitude towards English proletariat 205–7
awaits English revolution 200–5
challenges perception that French revolution of 1848 was a failure 156–7
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cites Paris as centre of European revolution 61
contempt for country life 96
criticises Belgium government 138–9
criticises German bourgeoisie 141
discovers communism 44–5
dislike for French socialists 350–5
early lack of great architectural vision 73–4
early thoughts on class struggle 59
experiments in patriarchal communism 62
fantasises about the outcome of Franco-Prussian War 321–3
fascination with Promethean legend 50–1, 72–3
historical materialism 95–7, 108–110, 270
inverts Hegel 53–4
move from idealism to materialism 35–6
on nature of bourgeoisie 119–22
on capital 69–70
on commodity 302–4
on destiny 27, 35
on European proletariat 68
on labour 71–2
on military interests 324, 362
on productivity 301
on property 70
on the nature of revolution 67–8
on the tyranny of religion 57–9
opinion of a poet’s character 21
opinion of England 254–8
opinions of communist libertinism 66, 74
outlines the advantages of a state bank 129
questions England’s imperviousness to revolution 142
student of capitalism 5
vague humanism 73–4
welcomes Third Republic 324
Marx, Laura 20, 174, 220, 264, 267–8. 284, 290–2, 295, 326, 350, 386
Marx, Luise 8
Marx, Sophie 19
Marx-Engels Institute (Moscow) 227
Mazzini, Giuseppe 279–80, 331–2
Mein Prozess gegen die Allgemeine Zeitung (‘My Lawsuit Against the Allgemeine Zeitung’) (Vogt) 239–40
Metternich, Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar 65–6, 125
Meyen, Eduard 44
Mill, John Stuart 321
Modern Thought 372–3
Moll, Joseph 98, 112
Moore, Samuel 124, 172
Napoleon III 275, 320–1
National Zeitung 241–2
Nechayev, Sergei 338, 345–7
Neue Oder-Zeitung 180, 200, 204
Neue Rheinische Zeitung 130–46, 167, 190, 197, 317
Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Politischökonomische Revue 156–7
New York Daily Tribune 180, 186–7, 204, 210–11, 223–4, 233, 245, 249, 255
New Yorker 5
Nicholas I, Tsar 47–8
Northen Star 153, 195–6
Obolensky, Princess 318–9
Observer 334
O’Connor, Feargus 196
Odger, George 275–6, 287–8, 330
Old Testament 2
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