Marx & Engels confidential: Amazing excerpts from the uncensored original correspondence of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels – hinnat ja saatavuus

The German bestseller "Marx & Engels intim" now in English Book with amazing uncensored quotes from the real letter exchange between Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. "BILD" (Europe's largest daily newspaper): He was a man of clear words: the philosopher Karl Marx. The fact that he was also a man of rough words is shown, among other things, by the countless letters he wrote back and forth with his philosopher friend Friedrich Engels ... The uncensored correspondence between the two made it under the title "Marx & Engels intim" already in the audiobook version at number 1 on the bestseller list. Now the IMH-Verlag has published the manuscript of the bestseller audiobook as a printed book. ... "The New York Times" about the first archivist, who collected the letters of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: ... the first director of the Marx-Engels Institute, David Riazanov, had little patience for the Communist Party officials who constantly demanded documents either to confirm ideological positions or to blacken enemies. One day, he took out a letter by Karl Marx, waved it in front of an astonished party boss's face and shouted: "There is your Marx. Now go " Riazanov ran afoul of Stalin in 1931, was arrested in 1937 and executed the following year. ... "The Guardian" (London): ... The inventor of proletarian revolution was not a man without his flaws. Impetuous, domineering and intellectually arrogant, he was one of the finest virtuosos of vituperation since Jonathan Swift. Enemies were dismissed as cretins and buffoons, charlatans and skunks. Lord John Russell was "a malignant and distorted dwarf", while another opponent, more sinisterly, was a "Jewish nigger". ... A champion of labour who never submitted to the indignity of a full-time job, Marx felt no compunction in sponging for his livelihood off the capitalist class, in the person of his long-suffering collaborator Friedrich Engels. It was the dashing, philandering Engels, who rode with the Cheshire hunt and lived with two Irish working women in a m nage trois, who kept his colleague financially afloat, sometimes by stealing from the cash box of his father's Manchester firm. The loyal Engels sacrificed much of his own success to Marx's well-being and would sometimes pen whole newspaper articles in Marx's name, diligently researching topics which the master couldn't be bothered to look into. When Engels wrote Marx an anguished letter to tell him of the death of his Irish lover, the great humanist responded with a self-pitying litany of his own ailments. ...