Karl Marx (53 page)

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.

11 The Rogue Elephant

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.

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.

325.
‘
an impudent forgery …
’
The Times
, 22 March 1871.

325.
‘
You must not believe a word of all the stuff you get to see …
’ Letter from KM to Wilhelm Liebknecht, 6 April 1871.

326.
‘
What resilience, what historical initiative …
’ Letter from KM to Ludwig Kugelmann, 12 April 1871.

326.
‘
Marx’s personal ambivalence to the Commune …
’ See, for example,
Karl Marx: A Biography
by David McLellan, p. 359.

326.
‘
The present state of things causes our dear Moor intense suffering …
’ Letter from Jenny Marx (daughter) to the Kugelmanns, 18 April 1871.

328.
‘
A master in small state roguery …
’ From
The Civil War in France
(Edward Truelove, London, June 1871).

332.
‘
a man of domineering disposition …
’ From ‘The International: addressed to the Working Class’ by Joseph Mazzini, Contemporary Review, XX (July 1872), 155.

333.
‘
a fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work …
’
The Times
, 16 April 1872.

333.
‘
Little as we saw or heard openly …
’ From ‘The Commune of 1871’ by E.B.M.,
Fraser’s Magazine
, June 1871.

333.
‘
We would venture to set that undistinguished shop …
’
The Tablet
, 15 July 1871.

333.
‘
perhaps the most significant and ominous of the political signs …
’
Spectator
, 17 June 1871.

333.
‘
It is true, no doubt, that the secretary of that body …
’ From ‘The proletariat on a false scent’ by W. R. Greg,
Quarterly Review
, CXXXII (January 1872), p. 133.

334.
‘
I have the honour to be at this moment …
’ Letter from KM to Ludwig Kugelmann, 18 June 1871.

334.
‘
Sir, From the Paris correspondence …
’
Pall Mall Gazette
, 9 June 1871.

335.
‘
I declare you to be a libeller …
’
Pall Mall Gazette
, 3 July 1871.

335.
‘
It was comfort personified …
’ The
World
, New York, 18 July 1871.

338.
‘
It was hard work …
’ Letter from KM to Jenny Marx, 23 September 1871.

340.
‘
This whole Jewish world which constitutes a single exploiting sect …
’ From
Archives Bakounine
, translated in
Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution, Volume IV: Critique of Other Socialisms
, p. 296.

341.
‘
The International is undergoing the most serious crisis …
’ From
Les Prétendues Scissions Dans L’Internationale
(Co-operative Press, Geneva, 1872).

342.
‘
If that is correct, then his family will have no worries …
’ From
Een Zesdaagsch International Debat
(Dordrecht, 1872), translated in
KMIR
, pp. 114–15.

342.
‘
the public is not even allowed a look …
’ Nicolaievsky and Maenchen-Helfen, p. 382.

342.
‘
the tinkling of the President’s bell …
’
The Times
, 7 September 1872.

343.
‘
At last we have had a real session of the International congress …
’ Nicolaievsky and Maenchen-Helfen, p. 384.

344.
‘
It was a
coup d’état
…
’ From
Report of the Fifth Annual General Congress of the International Working Men’s Association held at the Hague, Holland
, 2–9
September 1872
by Maltman Barry (London, 1873).

344.
‘
I am so overworked …
’ Letter from KM to Nikolai Danielson, 28 May 1872.

345.
‘
I can hardly wait for the next congress …
’ Letter from KM to César de Paepe, 28 May 1872.

345.
‘
This simple law must be the basis of our activity …
’
Violence dans la violence: le débat Bakounine-Necaev
by Michael Confino (Maspero, Paris, 1973), p. 88; see also
Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution, Volume IV: Critique of Other Socialisms
, p. 302.

12 The Shaven Porcupine

349.
‘
He is always healthy, vigorous, cheerful …
’ Letter from Jenny Marx to Friedrich Adolph Sorge, 20 or 21 January 1877.

350.
‘
Longuet is a very gifted man …
’ Letter from Jenny Marx to Wilhelm Liebknecht, 26 May 1872.

350.
‘
Though I drudge like a nigger …
’ Letter from Jenny Marx (daughter) to Eleanor Marx, 10 April 1882, quoted in
Eleanor Marx, Volume I: Family Life 1855–1883
by Yvonne Kapp (Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1972), p. 240.

351.
‘
Before they gave evidence …
’ From
Autobiographic Memoirs
by Frederic Harrison (London, 1911), Vol. II, p. 33.

351.
‘
who cheated me and others …
’ Letter from KM to Friedrich Adolphe Sorge, 4 August 1874.

352.
‘
Longuet as the last Proudhonist and Lafargue as the last Bakuninist!
’ Letter from KM to FE, 11 November 1882.

352.
‘
With one exception, all the books on the Commune …
’ Letter from Jenny Marx (daughter) to Ludwig and Gertrud Kugelmann, 21–22 December 1871.

352.
‘
I asked nothing of him …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 31 May 1873.

353.
‘
My dearest Moor, I am going to ask you …
’ Letter from Eleanor Marx to KM, 23 March 1874; translated in
Eleanor Marx, Volume I: Family Life 1855–1883
by Yvonne Kapp (Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1972), pp. 153–4.

354.
‘
The place was crowded …
’ Letter from Eleanor Marx to Jenny Longuet, 1 July 1882.

354.
‘
I unfortunately only inherited my father’s nose …
’ Letter from Eleanor Marx to Karl Kautsky, 28 December 1896.

355.
‘
What neither Papa nor the doctors nor anyone will understand …
’ Letter from Eleanor Marx to Jenny Longuet, 8 January 1882.

355.
‘
I have since months suffered severely …
’ Letter from KM to Nikolai Danielson, 12 August 1873.

355.
‘
My face went quite black …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 30 August 1873.

355.
‘
the serious possibility of my succumbing to apoplexy …
’ Letter from KM to Friedrich Adolph Sorge, 27 September 1873.

356.
‘
I myself allow the English papers to announce my death from time to time …
’ Letter from KM to Ludwig Kugelmann, 19 January 1874.

356.
‘
Carl Marx – Naturalisation …
’ File HO45/9366/36228 in the Public Record Office, London.

357.
‘
We are both living in strict accordance with the rules …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 1 September 1874.

357.
‘
My patience came to an end …
’ Letter from KM to FE, 18 September 1874.

358.
‘
He always has to hand the
mot juste
, the striking simile …
’ From
Sprudel
(Vienna), 19 September 1875, translated in
KMIR
, pp. 124–5.

359.
‘
pleasantly surprised to see with what warmth and affection …
’ From ‘Going to Canossa’ by August Bebel,
RME
, p. 216.

360.
‘
He was most affable …
’ From ‘Visits to Karl Marx’ by Nikolai Morozov,
RME
, p. 303.

360.
‘
He spoke in the quietly detached tones of a patriarch …
’ From
Aus den Jahren meines Exils: Erinnerungen eines Sozialisten
by Eduard Bernstein (Berlin, 1919), translated in
KMIR
, pp. 152–3.

360.
‘
Whatever Marx might have thought of me …
’ From
Aus den Frühzeit des Marxismus
by Karl Kautsky (Prague, 1935), translated in
KMIR
, pp. 153–6.