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Karl Marx was born in 1818 and studied law and philosophy. In his later life, his chief characteristic was singleness of purpose, his idea of happiness was to fight, his idea of misery was submission and his favourite occupation was book worming.
Karl Marx’s favourite poets were Shakespeare, Aeschylus and Goethe and his favourite heroes were the rebel slave leader Spartacus and the astronomer Kepler. His favourite name was Laura and Jenny, his favourite dish was fish, his favourite motto was you must have doubts about everything, and his favourite colour was red.
You ust have doubts about everything
Karl
Marx died in 1883 yet his spectre continues to haunt our world to date. Though his body is safely buried in High gate cemetery, London, his ideas refused to lie down and die beside him. Those ideas have shaped our world more than Darwin or Einstein. They have inspired men and women to fight and die for them; to overthrow old nations and construct new ones.
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He was a passionate writer and researched a lot. He spent most of his time in the London Library. His writings rendered him stateless and he ended up settling in London.
In 1851 the New York Herald Tribune under the sponsorship and publishing of Horace Greeley, employed Karl Marx, an obscure journalist as its London correspondent. The income from Tribune articles was the steadiest form of payment Karl Marx ever earned.
A few years later foreign correspondent Karl Marx, went broke, and two members of his family fell ill and malnourished. Despite going through all these, Marx submitted top-notch articles to the Tribune without fail. He loved his job. He was immersed in it.
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Karl Marx then appealed for financial help, he constantly appealed to Greeley and managing editor Charles Dana for an increase in his munificent salary of $5 per instalment, a salary which he and Engels ungratefully later labelled as the “lousiest petty bourgeois cheating.”
But when all his financial appeals were refused, Karl Marx looked around for other means of livelihood and fame, eventually terminating his relationship with the Tribune and devoting his talents full time to Marxism; the cause that would give the world the seeds of Lenin, Stalin, Hitler revolution and the cold war.
In his speech titled the President and the press, US president John F Kennedy is quoted saying,
“If only this capitalistic New York newspaper had treated him more kindly; if only Karl Marx had remained a foreign correspondent, history might have been different. And I hope all publishers (and employers) will bear this lesson in mind the next time they receive a poverty-stricken appeal for a small increase in the expense account from an obscure newspaperman”.
President John F Kennedy
How would the world be had Karl Marx remained fully engaged in London libraries and as a foreign correspondent? What would have happened had he remained an employee of Tribune with constant income?
