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Nathan Rothschild had given Marx two checks for several thousand pounds to finance the
cause of Socialism. The checks were put on display in the British Museum, after Lord Lionel
Walter Rothschild, a trustee, had willed his museum and library to them.
In 1867, Marx wrote the first volume of Das Kapital, which became known as the “Bible of
the Working Class.” Marx felt, that as the workers achieved various reforms, there would be a
possibility for the peaceful evolution towards socialism. A little known fact, is that Marx’ beliefs
were gleaned from the writings of Weishaupt, Babeuf, Blanc, Cabet, Owen, Ogilvie, Hodgkin,
Gray, Robert Thompson, William Carpenter, and Clinton Roosevelt; which he discovered from
his hours of research in the Reading Room of the British Museum. The second volume appeared
after Marx’ death, edited by Engels from Marx’ notes, in 1885; and volume three appeared in
1894.
When Marx died in March 14, 1883, only six people attended his funeral. He never supported
his family, which had produced six children. Three of them died of starvation in infancy and two
others committed suicide. Actually, Engels supported Marx with income from his father’s cotton
mills in England. Marx was buried in London, at Highgate Cemetery.
The Social Democratic Party in Germany, in 1869, was the first Marxist aligned political
Party. They favored an independent working class. It grew rapidly, despite the effort of
Chancellor Otto von Bismarck to break it up through the enactment of anti-socialist legislation.
In 1877, they elected a dozen members to the Reichstag. In 1881, they had 312,000 members;
and by 1891, 1,427,000. In 1891, they eliminated their earlier leanings toward State-aid for coops,
and aligned themselves with the Marxist goal of “the abolition of class rule and of classes
themselves.”
Some of the early Socialist Parties were: Danish Social Democratic Party (1870’s), Swedish
Socialist Party (1889), Norwegian Labor Party (1887), Austrian Social Democratic Party (1888),
Belgian Labor Party (1885), Dutch Socialist-Democratic Workers Party (1894), Spanish Social
Labor Party (1879), Italian Socialist Party (1892), and the Social Democratic Federation of
Great Britain (1880’s).
In 1889, the Second International was formed, with their headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.
Their main responsibility was to create some sort of unity within its ranks. It was totally
organized along Marxist philosophies.
LENIN TAKES CONTROL
Nikolai Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, 1870-1924) was a Russian revolutionary and
student of Marx, who was out for revenge, after his older brother, Alexander, was hung in 1887,
along with four comrades, for conspiring to assassinate Czar Alexander II, the grandfather of
Nicholas II.
During his teenage years, he admired Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876), a follower of
Weishaupt’s principles, and a Satanist, who was the driving force behind the initial effort to
organize Communism. In 1887, Lenin entered Kazan University, and in 1889, he became a
Mason, and soon began advocating the philosophies of Marx. He said: “We must combat
religion. This is the ABC’s of all materialism and consequently of Marxism.” In 1891, he passed
his law exam. In the early 1900’s, he said that socialism could only be achieved by mobilizing
workers and peasants through revolution, since trade unions were not able to bring about any
change.