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  • “Mere Auxiliaries to the Movement”1: How Intellectual Biography Obscures Marx's and Engels's Gendered Political Partnerships

  • Terrell Carver
  • Journal:
    Hypatia / Volume 33 / Issue 4 / Fall 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 January 2020, pp. 593-609
    Print publication:
    Fall 2018

  • Four women have been conventionally framed as wives and/or mistresses and/or sexual partners in the biographical reception of Karl Marx (1818–1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) as heterosexual men. These women were Jenny Marx (née von Westphalen) (1814–1881), Helene Demuth (“Lenchen”) (1820–1890), Mary Burns (1821–1863), and Lydia Burns (1827–1878). How exactly they appear in the few contemporary texts and rare images that survive is less interesting than the determination of subsequent biographers of the two “great men” to make these women fit a familiar genre, namely intellectual biography. An analysis of Marx–Engels biographies shows how this masculinized genre enforces an incuriosity that makes gendered political partnerships unthinkable and therefore invisible. By contrast, a positive interest in these women, which rethinks what a gendered political partnership is or could be, results in a significantly different view of the two men. As historical figures, they shift from being individualized or paired‐with‐each‐other “great thinkers” to communist/socialist activists working in and through everyday spaces and material practices. Their pamphlets, articles, and books thus appear more as immediate political interventions and less as timeless theorizing or as the raw material for such intellectualizing reconstructions.

  • 2 - Globalizing the Imagination: Introductory Reflections

  • Edited by Bart Barendregt, Chris Hudson
  • Book:
    Globalization and Modernity in Asia
    Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    11 December 2020
    Print publication:
    12 July 2018, pp 29-34

  • Summary

    Abstract

    Imaginaries are where imagination gets to work. A global imaginary arises through factuality and ideology as globalization and globalism intertwine. This pair of concepts cannot be simply defined and ‘applied.’ Rather they are themselves political projects – by providing answers, they discourage questions. The present volume works the other way round by investigating the very local, and presenting Anglophone readers with the very exotic. This research strategy exposes the flow of power relations through which – and for which – the various performances studied here are constituted. Chief among these power relations are commercial interests, as they merge with nation states, non-governmental organizations and international ‘players.’ The global imaginary is no longer a zone of touristy innocence but rather hosts a darker realm of anti-democratic blowback and religious zealotry.

    Keywords: globalization, imaginaries, power relations, performance, the local

    The imagination is where globalization meets globalism. Any conceptual exercise is inherently an act of imagination. As a phenomenon (if it is one), globalization doesn't tell us what it is. We don't ‘know it when we see it.’ Someone needs to persuade us with facts, figures, statistics, illustrations, anecdotes, overviews, op-eds and the like. However, it is not a bad idea to ask who is persuading us of what, and why, and to be just a bit suspicious: not so much of factual claims but why they are being made and for whose benefit.

    Moreover, we need histories, debates, opinions and views, or otherwise this supposed phenomenon isn't all that interesting and significant. Moralizing discourse frames factuality for us, as readers are told how to relate to what is said to be factual. Globalization seems descriptive, but meaning comes with morality: Are we for, against, on board, resisting?

    This is where globalism comes in as an ideology, a suite of ideas that tell us morally and therefore politically how globalization is inevitable, unstoppable, a march of history. Perhaps it is the cause of planetary problems, but then more than likely, so we’re told, it will provide the technological yet economically driven ‘fixes.’

    In practice, though, the two – globalization and globalism – are intertwined, but not because one is factual and the other ideological. They arrive together in a single imaginary, because imaginaries are what make facts and figures persuasive.

The Cambridge Companion to The Communist Manifesto
  • Edited by Terrell Carver, James Farr
  • Published online:
    05 September 2015
    Print publication:
    03 September 2015
  • The Cambridge Companion to The Communist Manifesto covers the historical and biographical contexts and major contemporary interpretations of this classic text for understanding Marx and Engels, and for grasping Marxist political theory. The editors and contributors offer innovative accounts of the history of the text in relation to German revolutionaries, European socialism, and socialist political projects; rhetorical, dramaturgical, feminist and postcolonial readings of the text; and theoretical analyses in relation to political economy, political theory and major concepts of Marxism. The volume includes a fresh translation into English, by Terrell Carver, of the first edition (1848), and an exacting transcription of the rare earliest English translation (1850) by Helen Macfarlane.

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