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Finally Karl received one letter from his betrothed a letter that transfused him with ecstatic joy for about a day, and then sent him back to his old unrest. This, however, may be taken as a part of Marx's curious nature, which was never satisfied, but was always reaching after something which could not be had.
He was fond, says Liebknecht, of quoting as his motto the defiant line of Dante, with which he afterwards concluded his preface to 'Das Kapital': 'Segui il tuo corso e lascia dir le genti." It is to Marx's everlasting credit that he set the intellectual standard of socialism on the most vigorous intellectual basis he could find.
Had Marx sent to the Library for Disjouval's "Arachnologie," the work which he gives as his authority, he would have found, that, not Beethoven, but the French violinist Berthaume, was the hero of the anecdote, as, indeed, is also related in Schilling's Encyclopaedia, not many pages after Marx's own article on Beethoven in that work.
To my mind the best parts of the book are those which deal with economic facts, of which Marx's knowledge was encyclopaedic. It was by these facts that he hoped to instil into his disciples that firm and undying hatred that should make them soldiers to the death in the class war.
In short, I can get that lecture up again almost at a moment's notice. SAVVY. But, Mr Lubin, I have had a university education too; and all this about wages and distribution being fixed by immutable laws of political economy is obsolete rot. That is not polite. LUBIN. No, no, no. Dont scold her. You are a disciple of Karl Marx. SAVVY. No, no. Karl Marx's economics are all rot.
Kiss me both ways, and then tell me which you think is the nicest " A squeal of laughter arose from the bed and, turning, Mary saw that one of the girls was holding the back of a toothbrush against her upper lip. "Now," she mumbled, "this is with the moustache ... Kiss me hard ..." "The greatest book in the world," continued the girl with the spectacles, "is Marx's book on Capital "
By Marx, Engels, Bebel, Karl Kautsky, and all the celebrated leaders and interpreters of Marx's great "Bible of the working class," down to the martyred Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, Birth Control has been looked upon as a subtle, Machiavellian sophistry created for the purpose of placing the blame for human misery elsewhere than at the door of the capitalist class.
Marx's standard for a workingmen's party was Socialism and nothing less than Socialism.
It is the essence of Marx's teaching that the social revolution must come as a historical necessity when the proletariat itself comprises an overwhelming majority of the people.
It omits the important labor legislation for increasing efficiency, since this was unprofitable under competitive and extra-governmental capitalism, and in Marx's time had not yet appeared; e.g. the minimum wage, a shorter working day, and workingmen's insurance. There can be little doubt that Marx and Engels, in this early pronunciamento, were purposely ambiguous in their language.
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