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I IH struggles opening on the last quarter ur (he 20lh century. iJlsurrection has been its own master; the great Iluctuations of unemployment or inflation have often served, on the contrary, to denect class struggles to a lower, survivalist planc rather than to fuel social revolution. The Great Depression of the 1930s brought a diminished vision, for example, characterized by German National Socialism and its cousin, the American New Deal, nothing approaching the destruction of capitalism. (The Spanish Revolution, bright light of the '30s, had nothing to do with the Deprcssion gripping the industrialized nations.) Marx's overriding concern with externalities-principally economic crises, of course-was a trademark of his practical as well as theoretical approach; it obviously rellects his slight regard for the subjectivity of the majority of people, for their potential autonomy, imagination, and strength. The distanciation from actual social struggles of his day is seemingly closely linked with the correct bourgeois life he led. In tcrms of his livelihood, onc is surprised by the gap between his concrete activities and his reputation as revolutionary theorist. From 1852 into the 1860s, he was "one of the most highly valued" and "best paid" columnists of the New York Daily Tribune, according to its editor. In fact, one hundred and sixty-five of his articles were uscd as editorials by this not-quite-rcvolu tionary metropolitan daily, which could account for the fact that Marx requested in 1855 that his subsequent pieces bc printed anonymously. But if he wanted not to appear as the voice of a huge bourgeois paper, hc wanted still more-as we have seen in his family role-to appear a gentleman. It was "to avoid a scandal" that he felt compelled to pay the printer's bill in 1859 for the reformist Das Volk newspaper in London. In 1862 he told Engels of his wish to engage in some kind of business: "Grey, dear friend, is all theory and only business is green. Unfortunate ly, I have come too late to this insight." Though he declined the offers, Marx received, in 1865 and 1867, two invitations which are noteworthy for the mere fact that they would have been extended to him at all: the first, via messenger from Bismarck, to "put his great talents to thc service of the German people," the second, to write financial articles for the Prussian government's official journal. In 1866 he claimed to have made four hundred pounds by speculating in American funds, and his good advice to Engels on how to play the Stoek Market is well authenticated. 1874 saw Marx and two partners wrangle in court over ownership of a patent to a new engraving device, intending to exploit the rights and reap large profits. To these striking suggestions of ruling-class mentality must be added the behavior of Marx toward his children, the three daughters who grew 1'.1 I·MI·NT:-. ( >I I'I·I·I I.'\ I I \'1 III 11 \;ll u ri tv Lllukr his t huruughly Victorian authority. In IK()(} he inistu I'll l'CUIlOll1ic guarantees fo r Paul LaFargue's future, criticizing his lack ,.r ·'diligence" and lecturing him in the most prudish terms regarding his IIllenti"ns toward Laura, who was almost twenty-one. Reminding I.al;arguc that he and Laura were not yet engaged and, if they were to he come so, that it would constitute a "long-term affair," he went on to '"-'press very puritanical strictures: "To my mind, true love expresses itself in the lover's restraint, modest bearing, evcn diffidence toward the adored one, and certainly not in unconstrained passion and manifesta lions of premature familiarity." In 1868 he opposed the taking of a job hy Jenny, who was then twenty-two; latcr he fo rbadc Eleanor from seeing l .issagaray, a Communard who happened to have defended single-handed Ihc last barricade in Paris. Turning back to politics, the economicerisis Marx avidly awaited in the '50s had corne and gone in 1857 awakening no revolutionary activity. But hy 1863 and the Polish insurrection of that year unrest was in the air, providing the background for the formation of the International Workingman's Association. Marx put aside his work on Capital and was most active in the affairs of the International from its London inception in September 1864. adger, Prcsident of the Council of all London Tradc Unions, and Cremer, Secretary of the Mason's Union, called the inaugural meeting, and Wheeler and Dell, two other British union offi c ials, formally proposed an international organization. Marx was elected to the executive committee (soon to be called the General Council), and at its first business mcetingwas instrumental in establishing Odger and Cremer as President and Secretary of the International. Thus from the start, Marx's allies were union hureaucrats, and his policy approach was a completely reformist one with "plain spcaking" as to radical aims disallowed. One of the first acts of the General Council was the sending of Marx's spirited, fraternal greetings to Abraham Lincoln, that "single-minded son of thc working class." Other early activities by Marx included the formation, as part of the International, of the Reform League dedicated to manhood suffrage. Hc boasted to Engels that this achievement "is our doing," and was equally enthusiastic when the National Reform League, sole surviving Chartist organization, applied for membership. This latter proved too much even for the faithful Engels, who for some time after refused to even serve as correspondent to the International for Manchester, where he was still a full-time capitalist. During this practice of embracing every shade of English gradualism, principally by promoting the membership of London trade unions, he penned his famous "the proletariat is revolutionary or
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