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"In 1852 Engels wrote to Marx that the great day was approaching. In 1853 he wrote again that France was on the verge of ruin, that the revolution was a matter of months.
"In this preaching of catastrophe," smiled Emile Vandervelde, "they multiply quotations tending to snow that, according to Marx and Engels, the increasing degradation of the proletariat and the economic catastrophe of Capitalism are necessary conditions of the coming revolution.
"What the Communists of today forget is that Marx and Engels constantly revised their theories as fast as they were contradicted by facts. In 1885 Friedrich Engels pointed out-and the world was then still in the grip of the crisis that had begun in 1873-that Capitalist production could...
> Complete files of the London Times, from its first issue in 1785 down to date, are rare. Not even the Times's own file is complete. The Royal Statistical Society's file, complete from 1785 to 1930, lately sold for $3,000. Bidders from the U. S. and...
At home, gentle-born Jenny, his wife, descendant of the Duke of Argyle, planned and scrimped and did not whine. "Len-chen'' (Helene Demuth), given to Jenny by her mother as a wedding present, slaved till the end of her life with little or no pay, while the Master was...