Karl Marx

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.

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...

Though MBE attended, together with a male friend, a meeting of the International Working Men's Association presided over by Karl Marx , she did so more as an observer than as a sympathiser. She felt...

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...

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...

She joined the Karl Marx Club , a reading group formed by Charlotte Wilson , at its first meeting in 1884. The club evolved into the Hampstead Historic Club , which has been described as...

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

EHD considered William Heinemann , her publisher, as also a close personal friend. She once attended a party in St John's Wood at the house of Karl Blind (stepfather of the poet...

Her later education took place at home. A tutor was succeeded by a woman teacher, Laura Lafargue , eldest daughter of Karl Marx . Julia's education ended when her father died and it became necessary...

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...

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...

Later in his eventful life he entered into a common-law marriage with a woman named Marie Rose, with whom he had three children. He knew Thomas Carlyle and he apparently rented rooms to Karl Marx

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.