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Letters of karl Marx to Karl Blind
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2008
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Marx met the then 22 years old Blind) for the first time in May 1848, when he and Engels made their appearance in the revolutionary state of Baden (Germany), after the Neue Rheinische Zeitung had been suspended. At that time they declared to the members of the republican committee at Karlsruhe (Landesa usschuss), that they considered the revolt in the South-West of Germany irretrievably doomed to failure, if no decisive moves in Hungary or another revolution in Paris should come to its rescue. The only members of the committee who supported this opinion were, as stated by Engels), Karl Blind and Amand Gögg. Soon afterwards Marx and Blind met again in Paris. On September 5 Marx gave Blind's address to Freiligrath as his own. Blind had been sent to France by the revolutionary governments of Baden and the Palatinate as one of the members of the legation, which these two shortlived republics intended to establish there. But Louis Napoleon's government ignored this legation, and consequently did not respect Blind's diplomatic immunity, when the latter, soon after his arrival, proved to be involved in the abortive coup of Ledru-Rollin of June 13. Blind was placed under arrest and expelled from France on the same day, on the ground that his presence was “such as to disturb public order and calm”.
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Page 153 note 1 The Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie does not mention Blind. An extensive biography was published in the Berliner Vossische Zeitung of 09 4, 1906, on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
Page 153 note 2 Friedrich Engels, Die Deutsche Reichsverfassungscampagne. In: Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Politisch-ökonomische Revue. Edited by Karl, Marx. Number 1, 01 1850, London, p. 75.Google Scholar
Page 154 note 1 The draft of this letter (written in French) and the proclamations of the French authorities were found among Blind's posthumous papers in the British Museum.
Page 154 note 2 Draft among posthumous papers in British Museum.
Page 154 note 3 Lassalle to Marx, , 04 16, 1850. In: Ferdinand Lassalle, Nachgelassene Briefe und Schriften. Edited by Qustav, Mayer, Vol.III, p. 24.Google Scholar
Page 154 note 4 That means the economical side of life.
Page 156 note 1 For “zugab” and “liesse” cf-Marx, to Freiligrath, 11 23, and Freiligrath to Marx, 11 28, 1860. Both letters have been reprinted by Franz, Mehring, Freiligrath und Marx in ihrem Briefwechsel, pp. 31–33, Erg-nzungshefte, der Neuen Zeit, No. 12, 1912.Google Scholar
Page 156 note 2 The journalist Heinrich Beta (really Bettzich) had published in 1860 a biographical sketch of Freiligrath in no. 43 of the Gartenlaube, containing ugly imputations t Marx.
Page 157 note 1 The text is blotted and partly torn off.
Page 157 note 2 Communistenbundes.
Page 157 note 3 Jacques Philips.
Page 157 note 4 Text much blotted and consequently doubtful.
Page 158 note 1 Amand, Gögg (1820—1897) had been Minister of Finance during the Baden revolution. He lived in Paris until his expulsion in the spring of 1851; then in Switzerland, where he took an active part in the foundation of the Peace and Liberty League and of Educational Societies for Workers.Google Scholar
Page 158 note 2 Blind had already forfeated his civil rights in Baden in 1850. Now his wife's property had also been inpounded. Marx communicated this to Engels on 08 28, adding: “So hören die Subsidien auf. Es tutmirleid für ihn, trotz der abgeschmackten Manieren, die er zu adoptieren für gut hielt”.
Page 158 note 3 Ernest Jones, the well-known Chartist leader and friend of Marx and Engels, edited The People's Paper at the time. In this periodical Marx published from 10 until 12 1853 his articles on Palmerston.
Page 158 note 4 Sic!