Karl Marx: The Story of His Life by Franz Mehring

By Franz Mehring

Containing footnotes and an intensive bibliography, this variation of Franz Mehring's vintage biography is designed to aid the English-speaking reader in the direction of a greater realizing of Marx, his paintings and a heritage of Marxism. The publication is split into components as follows: Early Years; A student of Hegel; Exile in Paris; Friedrich Engels; Exile in Brussels; Revolution and Counter-Revolution; Exile in London; Marx and Engels; The Crimean struggle and the situation; Dynastic adjustments; The Early Years of the overseas; 'Das Kapital'; The Zenith and Decline of the overseas; the decade.

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In the autumn of 1 839 he sent Bauer to the University of Bonn as a lecturer with the intention of appointing him to a professorship before the end of the year. But Bruno Bauer, as his letters to Marx indicate, was already in a period of intellectual development which was to take him far beyond Strauss. He began a criticism of the Gospels which finally demolished the last ruins which Strauss had left still stand­ ing. He contended that there was not an atom of historical truth in the Gospel story, that everything in it was the product of fantasy, and that Christianity was not forced as a world religion on the classic Grreco-Roman world, but that it was the natural product of that world.

Philip Westphalen became the real Chief-of-Staff of the Duke in the face of all the English and German generals with the army. His services were recognized in such measure that the King of England proposed to make him Adjutant-General of the army, an honour which Philip Westphalen refused. He was, however, compelled to tame his independent spirit to the extent of " accept­ ing" a title, and his reasons for so doing were similar to those which caused Herder and Schiller to submit to the same indig­ nity : in order to marry the daughter of a Scottish baronial family who had come to the camp of Duke Ferdinand to visit a sister married to the General commanding the English aux­ iliary troops.

There is no reason to doubt that the young Marx shared the opinions expressed in the book which brought his name before the general public for the first time. He was closely acquainted with Koppen and adopted the l atter's style to a considerable extent. Although their paths soon branched off in different directions, the two always remained good friends, and when Marx returned to Berlin twenty years later on a visit he found Koppen " just the same as ever " and they celebrated a joyful reunion and spent many happy hours in each other's company.

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