Karl Marx

Apart from indefatigable travel around the USA (including Hawaii), TO visited London, Paris, and the USSR with her husband in 1980. In London she met the staff at Virago , her publisher...

Wolff sees this novel as working out the Zola theory of hereditary destiny. However, although Ishmael vows to avenge his wrongs, when he discovers Pâquerette and Valnois separately years after their elopement he forgoes...

Before her next novel (though she places the memory in the 1980s) FW planned a historical novel. She was going to set it a year or two before the First World War, in a period...

Eleanor Marx (daughter of Karl Marx ) played Nora and Aveling played Torvald. They were joined by May Morris (daughter of William Morris ) as Mrs Linde and Bernard Shaw as Krogstad.

Along with her earlier Amante marine (addressed to Friedrich Nietzsche ), a book on Martin Heidegger which appeared in 1983, and a projected fourth book (which was to have linked Marx with the element of...

HA 's On Revolution explored the unfolding of the American and the French Revolutions, and the nature of Marxist theory, its translation into revolutionary action, and its distortion under Stalin into totalitarianism.

Before publishing novels of her own, ELV started in the literary field as a translator, largely of texts by writers she was connected to through her revolutionary involvement. She learned Russian from her political mentor...

HM remained throughout her life a staunch defender of free trade principles and government non-interference generally. She argued in one of her letters to the US National Antislavery Standard in 1861, for instance, that Protection...

Her economic analysis in this essay identifies power as creating an unnatural separation between the enjoyment of a thing and the power of producing it. She is unusual, says her biographer, for her time...

This book also addresses the importance of literacy throughout the world. It likens illiteracy to slavery: where slavery was criminal traffic in bodies, illiteracy is a traffic in the minds of men.MC

Rowntree's biographer Asa Briggs credits Kendall's affective writing with bringing Seebohm Rowntree 's The Human Needs of Labourto life; he describes her as someone who always gave loyal and devoted service.

The journal Good Words in 1873 printed two hymns for children by MBE , beginning respectively God make my life a little light and The little birds now seek their nest. Between them these two...

CG 's interest in the Russian political situation waned during years after the Revolution. She disagreed with Karl Marx 's Das Kapital and thought that state intervention in the economy should be minimal. Her involvement...

She knew most of the leaders of this group, to which she gives several pages in her memoirs. She later came to regard it, however, as a cocoon or cell that kept those inside it...

In this new course Marsden was strongly influenced by the work of philosopher Max Stirner (1806-56), who published The Ego and His Own in 1845. Stirner's ideal human has been described as the egoist, the...