A little break since last post as I was travelling in Russia. Ironic that this would be the next entry.
“Marx’s Journalism: The Grub Street Years”
“Marx’s Journalism: The Grub Street Years”
A review of Dispatches
for the New York Tribune: Selected Journalism of Karl Marx, edited by James
Ledbetter.
An interesting walk through Karl Marx’s writings as a journalist for the New York Tribune (while living in London) during the 1850s and 60s. Rather then the normal look at Marx’s (along with his collaborator Engels’) influence on the Russian Revolution, it profiles his writing supporting the American Revolution, Abraham Lincoln’s leadership in the U.S. Civil War and the independence of India. Perhaps not surprising to read that Marx was fiercely anti-slavery and a vocal opponent of the trading of Indian opium in China. Hitchen’s makes the assertion that Marx’s greatest writing was, perhaps, as a journalist rather than as co-author of the books that laid the foundation for communist revolution. It would be fait to say that, although Hitchens identifies himself as a Marxist, he would not call him self a communist.
An interesting walk through Karl Marx’s writings as a journalist for the New York Tribune (while living in London) during the 1850s and 60s. Rather then the normal look at Marx’s (along with his collaborator Engels’) influence on the Russian Revolution, it profiles his writing supporting the American Revolution, Abraham Lincoln’s leadership in the U.S. Civil War and the independence of India. Perhaps not surprising to read that Marx was fiercely anti-slavery and a vocal opponent of the trading of Indian opium in China. Hitchen’s makes the assertion that Marx’s greatest writing was, perhaps, as a journalist rather than as co-author of the books that laid the foundation for communist revolution. It would be fait to say that, although Hitchens identifies himself as a Marxist, he would not call him self a communist.
There are no public statues of Soviet era leaders in Moscow but there is this staue of Marx.
New learning: A quote from Marx’s writing, “Voltaire used to call Shakespeare a drunken savage.”
New phrase: pleonasm = the use of more words or word parts than is necessary for clear expression.
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