File spoon-archives/marxism-general.archive/marxism-general_1997/97-03-05.123, message 76


Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 10:23:45 +0100 (MET)
From: rolf.martens-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se (Rolf Martens)
Subject: Re: M-G: Re: suspensions and workers struggle


Boddisatva wrote, on 04.03.
>
>		Question to Marxism-General:
>
>
>
>
>	Did Karl Marx ever become a British citizen?  What was his
>relationship with the British authorities?  Did his political activities in
>Britain ever put him in danger of getting kicked out of yet another country? 
>
I don't have anything like a full answer to those questions.
I hope someone else does.

I remember reading that Marx applied for citizenship,
signing himself "Charles Marx", but that some police
official or other wrote a document saying that he was
"not a loyal subject to the Queen" and that this at
least for the time being prevented the application
>from being granted. Whether Marx later succeeded I
don't know, nor whether there were any serious expulsion
threats. But having read some parts of Marx' correspondence
over the decades, I can say that I didn't find any reference 
to such threats there.

Rolf M.



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