ABSTRACT
Kar~ Marx passed away peacefu~~y ill nt s favorite armchair at a quarter to three in the afternoon on March 14, 1883. Three days later, a few miles up the street, the great revolutionary was buried, a citizenless emigre , in London 's Highgate Cemetery. At the graveside, eleven mourners paid homage to the "old Moor " and listened to Marx's longtime comrade Frederick Engels-"The General"- remember his dear departed friend of nearly forty years; Engels'sown personal grief was palpable. But more than this, Engels reminisced about the "immeasurable loss . . . sustained both by the militant proletariat of Europe and America, and by historical science, in the death of this man . The gap that has been left by the departure of this mighty spirit will soon enough make itself felt." "His name;' Engels predicted, "will endure through the ages, and so also will his work!"
