Marx: Five reasons why he was ahead of his time
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https://www.dw.com/en/karl-marx-five-reasons-why-the-thinker-was-ahead-of-his-time/a-60716738
1. He married a partner who was his equal
2. He helped to make the eight-hour day a reality
3. He inspired the Occupy movement
4. He was a high-level researcher
5. His work influenced movements around the worldThe exhibition “Karl Marx and Capitalism” at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin runs from February 10, 2022 to August 21, 2022.
In the only handwritten version of the booklet that has survived the years, the first lines are written by her.
That’s the first time I knew that Jenny contributed to the CM.
But I would have said Marx married above himself, not his equal, being that Jenny was a member of the aristocracy.
I don’t think that means she “contributed” to the ideas expressed in the Communist Manifesto. It just means she was his secretary. Darwin too had his family help out with his writing but that didn’t mean they contributed to his ideas:
“Members of his family acted as his amanuenses, read to him, helped with experiments, and read drafts of his work; from time to time he employed someone to make fair copies of his manuscripts.”
Marx did the same with his wife and daughters.
Marx and Engles indicated that socialism/communism was a product of the working class and everything that they learned came from the working class. I don’t think that they were more revolutionaries than the revolutionaries of their time or their epoch. Several men and women were secretaries of several leftists writers including Lenin, Trotsky, but they did not contribute to their ideas, Dunayevskaya was Leon Trotsky secretary and she contradicted him during the Stalin-Hitler pact and his wife was expelled from the fourth international because she had a different point of view, and probably Lenin wife was part of the Opposition. Marx son in law was also his secretary and Engels always considered himself a student of Marx ideas
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