#eleanor marx

[sansculottides]

marx and his daughters laura, jenny and eleanor + engels (watercolor and pen in my sketchbook)

[radiofreederry]

Happy birthday, Eleanor Marx! (January 16, 1855)

Daughter of famed sociologist and theorist Karl Marx, Eleanor Marx was a socialist theorist and campaigner in her own right. Born in London during her father's exile, Marx played in her father's study while he worked on Capital, his magnum opus. She began accompanying her father to socialist meetings and working as his secretary at age 16. After her father's death, Marx helped to prepare the English edition of the first volume of Capital alongside Edward Aveling, her longtime partner. She became vocal in supporting women and opposing antisemitism, reclaiming and identifying strongly with her Jewish heritage. She was heavily involved with the Social Democratic Federation, the Socialist League, and briefly with the Independent Labour Party. She wrote a number of works of her own, as well as doing extensive translation work of foreign socialist texts. In 1898, Marx killed herself after discovering that Aveling had married another woman.

"Bourgeois writers usually assume that there is no such thing as class struggle, and that the English working classes were never in so flourishing a condition as to-day; or that there is no general feeling of class hatred, and that what little there is arises solely from the innate wickedness of the workers and the evil teachings of Socialists. The facts are that this struggle exists, that it has existed for centuries, and that its existence is quite independent of any doctrines, socialistic or otherwise."

[perpetualstews]

Eleanor Marx, my favorite :)

[criphd]

eleanor marx, photographed 1867 & 1877

[bygone]

(via ‘Karl Marx’ (1883) by Eleanor Marx from Karl Marx: Man, Thinker, and Revolutionist; a Symposium edited by David Riazanov. International Publishers, New York. 1927.)

[totallyhussein-blog]

Eleanor Marx and the matchgirls of London

Fearful of returning home to a violent father without having sold enough matches for the day, The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen remains on the street resigned to warming herself by lighting matches. 

With each match, she sees a vision; a warm stove, a table laden with hot food, a beautiful Christmas tree decorated with lights leading up to the sky, so high that one becomes a shooting star. 

According to her grandmother, each shooting star is a person who had recently passed on and is now heading to heaven. Her next strike brings a vision of her grandmother, the only person in the world who ever loved The Little Match Girl who takes her away in her warm embrace to heaven.

The Matchgirls' Strike of 1888 was an industrial action by the women and teenage girls working at the Bryant & May match factory in Bow, London. In the late nineteenth century, matches were made using sticks of poplar or Canadian pine wood, twice the length of the finished product.

The working conditions in the match factory had caused great discontent; with fourteen-hour workdays, poor pay, unjust fines, having no clean area to eat, and the severe health complications of working with allotropes of white phosphorus, which caused phosphorus necrosis also known as phosphorimus chronicus or phossy jaw. 

This discontent grew into open outrage with the dismissal of one of the workers in 1888. In the 1880s, Bryant & May employed nearly 5,000 people, most of them were female and Irish, or of Irish descent. In 1908 the House of Commons passed an Act prohibiting the use of white phosphorus in matches after the 31st of December 1910.

One of the leading supporters of the Matchgirls Strike was Eleanor Marx, one of the most overlooked figures in history and usually overshadowed by her father, Karl Marx. Not only did she collaborate with her father, but she also led an extraordinary life as a labour organiser, trade unionist, translator, actor, writer and feminist.

Yvonne Kapp’s biography on Eleanor Marx brilliantly succeeds in capturing Eleanor’s spirit, from a lively child to becoming the new woman, earning her living as a free intellectual, and helping to lead England’s unskilled workers at the height of the new Trade Union movement. 

She was always more than, yet at the same time inescapably, Karl Marx’s daughter. Eleanor Marx by Yvonne Kapp is an unrivalled biography of the Marx household in Victorian London, of the Marx circle, and of Friedrich Engels, the family’s extraordinary mentor. 

[queen-mabs-revenge]

a cde is giving a lead off on eleanor marx tonight so i finally cracked open the proverbial bottle of fine wine i've been saving for a rainy day and read her essay on shelley and socialism and fuck me as if i couldn't love my pal peebs more??? my brain is actually vibrating with joy???

[stillnaomi]

...all classes of society not composed of actual and immediate producers of wealth (and these, in England at least, are almost exclusively wages-laborers), all classes, from kings and queens to music-masters and greengrocers, live upon their respective shares of this surplus-value. In other words, they live upon the net produce of the surplus labor which the capitalist extracts from his workpeople, but for which he does not pay. It matters not whether the share of surplus-labor falling to each member of society not actually a producer is granted as a gift by Act of Parliament from the public revenue, or whether it has to be earned by performing some function not actually productive. There is no other fund out of which they can be paid, but the sum total of the surplus value created by the immediate producers, for which they are not paid.

Eleanor Marx, “Karl Marx”

[sansculottides]

eleanor marx (based on a drawing by grace black in 1881)

[breha]

madame bovary gustave flaubert trans. eleanor marx aveling // the vampire lestat anne rice // amc interview with the vampire

[drumlincountry]

i usually read a Jane Austen book every December but I've read all* of them now so now i'm reading Longbourn by Jo Baker and aaaaaaaaaaa a.. a aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa AAAAAAAAAAA AAAA AAAAAAAAA. AAA !!!!!!

[criphd]

someone put my fave scene from miss marx on youtube !! to get the full effect u do kinda need to watch the film but even so they cover a lot in this clip :)

[johngarfieldtribute]

Julie Doing “Stuff” with Famous People (23rd post)

Director Busby Berkeley shows Julie the ropes on the set of THEY MADE ME A CRIMINAL above.

On his last film, Julie and Shelley Winters get guidance from director, John Berry who sets up a scene in HE RAN ALL THE WAY.

Eleanor Parker and Julie are comfy on the floor absorbed in the comic pages in a scene for PRIDE OF THE MARINES.

Priscilla Lane spoon feeds Julie in a promotional photo for DUST BE MY DESTINY.

And the two pose for PHOTOPLAY magazine with a smoldering kiss!

The photo caption for this pixelated pic reads: “Who says Harpo won't talk? John Garfield had a grand chat with the elfin-faced comic.”

From a magazine feature: “Inhibitions fall down and go boom: John Garfield and (actress) Kay Aldridge were prettily for their picture against the deck tennis net aboard the S.S. America when…

…the net suddenly broke and Mr. Garfield and Miss Aldridge hit the deck. They tried to get up again and missed connections, all which made for a lot of fun for Fink.” (Not sure who Fink is!)

Julie chats with With Photoplay magazine writer, Maxine Arnold.

Julie clowns with his wife, Robbe and actors, Richard Conte and Alexander Knox. I read somewhere Julie helped Conte early in his career.

[hauntingblue]

Old man divorce noooooooo </3

[brother-emperors]

what's. what the fuck wrong with them. good grief. I need to put the three of them in a jar and study them

Mark Antony: A Biography, Eleanor Goltz Huzar

Julius Caesar and the Roman People, Robert Morstein-Marx

Mark Antony: A Biography, Eleanor Goltz Huzar

[stillnaomi]

At once much loved and feared by his school-fellows — loved because he was always in mischief, and feared because of his readiness in writing satirical verse and lampooning his enemies, Karl Marx passed through the usual school routine, and then proceeded to the Universities of Bonn and Berlin, where, to please his father, he for a time studied law, and to please himself he studied history and philosophy. In 1842 he was about to habilitate himself at Bonn as “Privat Dozent,” but the political movement arisen in Germany since the death of Frederick William III in 1840, threw him into another career. The chiefs of the Rhenish Liberals — Kamphausen and Hansemann — had founded the Rhenish Gazette at Cologne, with the co-operation of Marx, whose brilliant and bold criticism of the provincial Landtag created such a sensation, that, though only twenty-four years old, he was offered the chief editorship of the paper. He accepted it, and therewith began his long struggle with all despotisms, and with Prussian despotism in particular. Of course the paper appeared under the supervision of a censor — but the poor censor found himself powerless. The Gazette invariably published all important articles, and the censor could do nothing. Then a second, a “special” one was sent from Berlin, but even this double censorship proved of no avail, and finally in 1843 the government simply suppressed the paper altogether.

Karl Marx by Eleanor Marx