The Letters of Karl Marx

Download or read book The Letters of Karl Marx written by Karl Marx and published by Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall. This book was released on 1979 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included here is a wide selection of Marx's letters to Frederick Engels, which not only sheds new light on the evolution of Marxist ideas, but also underscores their intense friendship and Marx's reliance on his collaborator for moral and financial support. There is a moving letter by the 19-year-old Karl to his father - a fascinating glimpse of the future Marx. Also, a complete section is devoted to letters to and about the brilliant Socialist theorist Ferdinand Lassalle, whom Marx both envied and admired. In addition, there are letters to his beloved wife, Jenny, and his three daughters; to his publisher Franz Duncker; and to numerous contemporaries, such as Ludwig Feuerbach and Heinrich Heine. Throughout the letters are comments about famous people from Aristotle to Napoleon III, including Charles Darwin, Benjamin Disraeli, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Pierre Joseph Proudhon, and Martin Luther.