Produced by Adrian Mastronardi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) * * * * * +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has | | been preserved. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | | a complete list, please see the end of this document. | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ * * * * * _SOCIAL STUDIES SERIES_ (_VOLUME TWO_). THE LIFE AND TEACHING OF KARL MARX FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1921 [_All rights reserved._] THE LIFE AND TEACHING OF KARL MARX BY M. BEER _Author of "A History of British Socialism"_ TRANSLATED BY T.C. PARTINGTON AND H.J. STENNING, AND REVISED BY THE AUTHOR NATIONAL LABOUR PRESS, LIMITED, LONDON: 8/9, JOHNSON'S COURT, E.C. 4 MANCHESTER: 30, BLACKFRIARS STREET CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTION: I. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MARX ix. II. THE WORK OF HEGEL xiii. I. PARENTS AND FRIENDS: I. MARX'S APPRENTICESHIP 1 II. STUDENT 3 III. BEGINNINGS OF PUBLIC LIFE 11 II. THE FORMATIVE PERIOD OF MARXISM: I. THE FRANCO-GERMAN YEAR BOOKS 15 II. FRIENDSHIP WITH FRIEDRICH ENGELS 19 III. CONTROVERSY WITH BAUER AND RUGE 21 IV. CONTROVERSY WITH PROUDHON 26 III. YEARS OF AGITATION AND VARYING FORTUNES: I. THE REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT OF THE FORTIES 39 II. THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO 41 III. THE REVOLUTION OF 1848 48 IV. DAYS OF CLOUD AND SUNSHINE IN LONDON 51 V. THE INTERNATIONAL 54 VI. THE PARIS COMMUNE 59 VII. THE EVENING OF LIFE 60 IV. THE MARXIAN SYSTEM: I. THE MATERIALIST CONCEPTION OF HISTORY 65 II. CLASSES, CLASS STRUGGLES AND CLASS-CONSCIOUSNESS 78 III. THE ROLE OF THE LABOUR MOVEMENT AND THE PROLETARIAN DICTATORSHIP 84