ABSTRACT

Strife has raged about Karl Marx for decades, and never had it been so embittered as at the time of this book’s first publication, 1936. Marx had impressed his image on the time as not other had done. To some he was – and still is – a fiend, the arch-enemy of human civilisation, and the prince of chaos, while to others he is a far-seeing and beloved leader, guiding the human race towards a brighter future. The arena in which Marx was fought about in 1936 was in the factories, in the parliaments and at the barricades. In both camps, the bourgeois and the socialist, Marx was first of all, if not exclusively, the revolutionary. This book sets out to describe the life of Marx the fighter.

chapter I|14 pages

Origins and Childhood

chapter II|6 pages

A Happy Year at Bonn

chapter III|8 pages

Jenny Von Westphalen

chapter IV|14 pages

Student Years in Berlin

chapter V|18 pages

Philosophy Under Censorship

chapter VI|14 pages

The Germans Learn French

chapter VII|11 pages

The Communist Artisans of Paris

chapter VIII|13 pages

The Life-Long Friend

chapter IX|8 pages

Clarification

chapter X|15 pages

Face to Face with Primitive Communism

chapter XI|16 pages

The Communist League

chapter XII|17 pages

The Revolutionary Tempest

chapter XIII|23 pages

The ‘Mad Year' in Cologne

chapter XIV|21 pages

Defeat with Honour

chapter XV|28 pages

The End of the Communist League

chapter XVI|34 pages

The Sleepless Night of Exile

chapter XVII|19 pages

The International Working Men's Association

chapter XVIII|18 pages

Michael Bakunin

chapter XIX|35 pages

The Franco-Prussian War

chapter XX|35 pages

The Downfall of the International

chapter XXI|15 pages

The Last Ten Years