Karl Marx (55 page)

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

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

Pall Mall Gazette
322, 333, 334–5

Palmerston, Lord 163–4, 197, 208–12, 274

Paris Commune 325–32, 337, 344, 352

Payne, Robert 3, 276, 332

People’s Paper
200–1

Perron, Charles 320

Pfäender, Karl 154, 172, 282, 284

Philips, Leon 159–60, 246, 248, 253, 265–6, 268

Philosophy of Poverty, The
(Proudhon) 107

Pieper, Wilhelm 19, 181–3, 188, 199, 216

Popper, Karl 299

Prawer, Professor S. S. 20

Prometheus Unbound
(P. Shelley) 50–1, 72

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph 61, 74, 106–110, 112, 279, 284

Prussian National Assembly 144, 146

Quarterly Review
275, 333–4

Red Republican
124, 197, 274

Rheinische Zeitung
35–6, 38, 40, 42–8, 54, 75, 236, 271

Ricardo, David 68, 71, 259, 304

Ruge, Arnold 27, 36, 45, 47–8, 52, 54, 57, 62–8, 169

Rutenburg, Adolf 36, 43–4, 46

Ryazanov, David 68

Sand, George 317

Schapper, Karl 98, 112, 128, 130, 137, 191

Schramm, Conrad 156, 164–5, 167, 199

Schramm, Rudolph 167–9

Schurz, Carl 135

Schwarzschild, Leopold 3