Good work Karl. As valid today as it was back then. All the lies and twists and misrepresentations over the last 130 years havent disputed the findings of your work or dulled the quest for freedom and justice. March 14, 1883 In London, at 2:45 in the afternoon, a stateless refugee named Karl Marx draws his last breath. Eleven people attend his funeral four days later, including his life-long friend Friedrich Engels, who gives a eulogy in which he says: “Before all else, Marx was a revolutionist. To collaborate in one way or another in the overthrow of capitalist society and of the State institutions created by that society; to collaborate in the freeing of the modern proletariat ... this was his true mission in life. Fighting was his natural element. Few men ever fought with so much passion, tenacity, and success.... “Because he was an active revolutionist, Marx was the best hated and most calumniated man of his time. He was shown the door by various governments, republican as well as absolute. Bourgeois, ultra-democrats as well as conservatives, vied with one another in spreading libels about him. He brushed these aside like cobwebs, ignored them, only troubled to answer them when he positively had to. Yet he has gone down to his death honoured, loved, and mourned by millions of revolutionary workers all over the world, in Europe and Asia as far eastward as the Siberian mines, and in America as far westward as California. I can boldly assert that, while he may still have many adversaries, he has now hardly one personal enemy. “His name and his works will live on through the centuries.”
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 02:55:59 +0000
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