[lbo-talk] biography of marx?

[Bill Quimby]

Wheen's bio (Karl Marx: A Life 2001) is a quick read, and has a light touch
(that is to say is not heavily involved in his intellectual development -more
willing to describe his shooting out lamplights on the way home from the pub!).
But I have been dipping into Mehring's bio (Karl Marx: The Story Of His Life)
lately and find it fascinating. Not sure of the original authoring date but he
died in 1919. His writing is a treat, coming from a very different 19th century
Germanic scholar background - and he was involved with Liebknecht and
Luxemburg in the Spartacus movement. Probably, though, something to be read
AFTER you have read a more recent version that takes into consideration what
were unknown writings (the 1844 Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, for
example) to Mehring.

While Lichtheim did not do a bio per se, his "Marxism, An Historical and Critical
Study", is really an "intellectual" bio in disguise.

- Bill

shag carpet bomb wrote:
> I found my old copy of The Ectonomic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 - 
> edited by Dirk Struik. Must have picked it up at a yard sale because it has a
>  library stamp on it from a library I've never heard of. *shrug*
> 
> i was reading the introduction which I don't recall reading and realizing I 
> know very little about Marx's biography.
> 
> What's a good book that gets into his bio, the political and cultural milieu
>  and maybe a little intellectual bio/history?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> shag
> 
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