History Engels: Hunting and a worker, the loves of the first rich communist
They say that when
Karl Marx
wrote his handwriting by hand it was so
unintelligible
that his wife Jenny was in charge of
getting everything clean
so that the manuscripts reached the publishers correctly.
Throughout his
38 years of marriage
, the author of
Capital
lived a full life
full of love.
Johanna Bertha Julie von Westphalen is a great unknown to ordinary mortals, however, thanks to her
sacrifice
, the works of the German intellectual of Jewish origin are currently known.
Both
knew each other since childhood
because they were neighbors, although from different social classes.
While Karl was middle class, the young woman belonged to an
aristocratic Prussian family
in whose genealogy blue blood gushed.
She descended from her paternal line from King James I and the House of Stuart and from her mother from the Dukes of Argyll,
the most powerful family in Scotland
and one of the most prominent in the United Kingdom.
As a baroness, Jenny could have married rich suitors, but she chose to be true to her heart.
She married Karl Marx in 1843
as she strongly believed in his ideals.
In fact, she was the first
member of the Communist League
founded by Marx and Frederick Engels in 1847 and which was the embryo of the Communist Party.
That situation caused
the exile of the Marx to England.
Her passion for literature had brought them closer together during adolescence.
The thinker Karl Marx.GTRES
Despite the money Jenny inherited, the family experienced
real hardship.
Paradoxically, Marx was a specialist in economic theory, but he did not control the money that entered his house since
he used to waste it
on frugality.
This situation meant that for a time
Engels had to help them.
Nor was it an incentive that the writer bought
a huge house in north London
whose value was beyond his means.
For several years, the couple suffered police harassment and were constantly watched because Marx was considered a public danger.
Depression
The couple
had seven children,
three boys and four girls.
But the boys and one of the girls
died during childhood due to the poverty
to which the family had succumbed for defending their ideas.
Her pregnancies were not an impediment to putting her needs before those of her husband because she used to travel to raise enough money to
finance Marx's research,
she maintained epistolary relations with Marxist scholars and she published several books on criticism. cultural.
Jenny
died of liver cancer
at the age of 67 in 1881, throwing her husband into a deep depression.
Although it is difficult to believe, as happened to Van Gogh in his life with his paintings, when Marx published
Capital
in 1867 the work went completely unnoticed.
After his death, on March 14, 1883, they gave it the historical value it deserved.
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