Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 18:43:43 +0000
From: James Heartfield <James-AT-heartfield.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Wives in commony


In message <s51b866c.074-AT-ci.detroit.mi.us>, Charles Brown <charlesb-AT-CNCL
.ci.detroit.mi.us> writes
>Charles Brown recomments,
>    Marx fathered an a child with "Lenchie" the maid in his house. Engels took 
>public responsibility for fathering , i.e. let people think that he was the 
>biological father, covering for Marx, who was married. Engels was not. Engels 
>revealed the truth on his death bed. Read the autobiography of Marx's daughter, 
>Eleanor Marx, Vol. I, by Yvonne Kapp.
>     Of course, you might say that in committing community of wives, Marx, a 
>petit bougeois, was within the "painful convention " of the bourgeoisie as he 
>and Engels describe so well in the Manifesto.

I wonder if Marx's personal behaviour reflects at all on his writings.

I read recently (Macgregor, David, Hegel, Marx and the English State,
Toronto University Press, 1996) that Engels firm had been reported for
breach of the Factory Acts by the inspectors. Does that diminish Engels'
critique of capitalism?

I don't think so.
-- 
James Heartfield


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