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As a longtime admirer of Mayor Daniel Webster Hoan of Milwaukee, I wish to congratulate TIME on the fine story "Marxist Mayor": but, as a loyal alumnus of the University, of Wisconsin, I protest against the statement that the professors at that institution had 'seemed never to have heard...
In the next few years Marx studied jurisprudence, Greek philosophy, Hegel, wrote his doctoral dissertation on Democritus and Epicurus, came into conflict with the Prussian censor, became widely known in radical intellectual circles. At the age of 24 he was editor of a radical paper in Cologne, helped to boost...
Association with these two enterprising newspapermen proved helpful after the German revolution had been suppressed and Marx was living in exile in London. U. S. readers of Franz Mehring's biography are likely to be surprised at the number of close connections that Marx and Engels maintained with the...
Marx's domestic life was constantly troubled. "The classic theoretician of money," says Biographer Mehring, "could never quite make his own tally." Once the family lived for ten days on bread and potatoes. Once Marx could not leave the house because he had no clothes. Once, after a publisher...
The Civil War brought more hard times for Marx and Engels. Fired from the Tribune, Marx tried to get a job on a railroad. His daughter secretly attempted to go on the stage to help her parents. Increasingly absent-minded about money, Marx once signed a note, forgot all about...