Re: [Marxism] Eleanor Marx/ ( defender of Marx)

["Renato Pompeu" <renatopompeu@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Charles Brown" <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 7:49 PM
Subject: [Marxism] Eleanor Marx/ ( defender of Marx)
> CB; Carrol, I believe Eleanor's biographer says that Engels claimed to be
> the child's father until he (Engels) was on his death bed, when he told
that
> the child was Marx's. Engels , single, was covering for Marx, who was
> married.
>
> The child was the child of the maid in the Marx household, Ms. Demuth , I
> believe.

I remember having read a letter by Engels to a Marx' daughter, in which he
tells her not to say untrue a "slander" that Marx had a son with his
domestic employee. He said in this letter that, however painful, truth must
prevail - Marx de facto had this son out of marriage.
I also read, in another piece, that the only Marx' descendant, through this
"illegitimate" son, was living in the 1970s in East Germany as a factory
worker.
Every great man has failures - Lenin, his wife and his lover lived a time
under the same roof.
Renato



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