Introducing Marx: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides)

by Rius

God didn’t create man, but the other way round

Someone had to say it.

Jenny Marx describes the hard times in a letter to a friend: “Our three children lay down by us and we all wept for the little angel whose livid, lifeless body was in the next room. Our beloved child’s death occurred at the time of the hardest privation, our German friends being unable to help us just then … Anguish in my heart, I hurried to a French emigrant who lived not far away and used to come to see us, and begged him to help us in our terrible necessity. He immediately gave me two pounds with the most friendly sympathy. That money was used to pay for a coffin in which my child now rests in peace. She had no cradle when she came into the world and for a long time was refused a last resting place …”

When you were busy being a thinker, in your becoming process, your family went through so much pain. Imagine the death of a child. Thats right, you can imagined the death of a child. But you could go on with life because as a man in the 1800s, your privileges were great compared to the ones back home. And to top that, you were a rebel. Jenny was your collateral damage. Urgh! You make me so angry.