Karl Marx: The Story of His Life

Franz Mehring

Chapter 1: Early Years 1. Home and School 2. Jenny Von Westphalen Chapter 2: A Pupil of Hegel 1. The First Year In Berlin 2. The Young Hegelians 3. The Philosophy of Self-Consciousness 4. The Doctoral Dissertation 5. The Anekdota and the Rheinsche Zeitung 6. The Rhenish Diet 7. Five Months of Struggle 8. Ludwig Feuerbach 9. Marriage and Banishment Chapter 3: Exile in Paris 1. The Deutsch-Französische Zeitung 2. A Philosophic Perspective 3. On The Jewish Question 4. French Civilization 5. The Vorwärts and the Expulsion of Marx Chapter 4. Friedrich Engels 1. Office and Barracks 2. English Civilization 3. The Holy Family 4. A Fundamental Socialist Work Chapter 5: Exile in Brussels 1. The German Ideology 2. True Socialism 3. Weitling and Proudhon 4. Historical Materialism 5. The Deutsche Brüsseler Zeitung 6. The Communist League 7. Propaganda In Brussels 8. The Communist Manifesto Chapter 6: Revolution and Counter-Revolution 1. February and March Days 2. June Days 3. The War Against Russia 4. September Days 5. The Cologne Democracy 6. Freiligrath and Lassalle 7. October and November Days 8. An Act of Perfidy 9. And Another Cowardly Trick Chapter 7: Exile in London 1. The Neue Rheinische Revue 2. The Kinkel Affair 3. The Split in the Communist League 4. Life In Exile 5. The Eighteenth Brumaire 6. The Communist Trial In Cologne Chapter 8: Marx and Engels 1. Genius and Society 2. An Incomparable Alliance Chapter 9: The Crimean War and the Crisis 1. European Politics 2. David Urquhart, G.J. Harney and Ernerst Jones 3. Family and Friends 4. The Crisis of 1857 5. The Critique of Political Economy Chapter 10: Dynastic Changes 1. The Italian War 2. The Dispute With Lassalle 3. New Struggles in Exile 4. Interludes 5. Herr Vogt 6. Domestic and Personal 7. Lassalle's Agitation Chapter 11: The Early Years of the International 1. The Founding of the International 2. The Inaugural Address 3. The Breach with Schweitzer 4. The First Conference In London 5. The Austro-Prussian War 6. The Geneva Congress Chapter 12: Das Kapital 1. Birth Pangs 2. The First Volume 3. The Second and Third Volumes 4. The Reception of Capital Chapter 13: The International at its Zenith 1. England, France and Belgium 2. Switzerland and Germany 3. Bakuninin's Agitation 4. The Alliance of Socialist Democracy 5. The Basle Congress 6. Confusion in Geneva 7. The Confidential Communication 8. The Irish Amnesty and the French Plebiscite Chapter 14: The Decline of the International 1. Sedan 2. After Sedan 3. The Civil War In France 4. The International and the Paris Commune 5. The Bakuninist Opposition 6. The Second Conference in London 7. The Disintegration of the International 8. The Hague Congress 9. Valedictory Twinges Chapter 15: The Last Decade 1. Marx at Home 2. The German Social Democracy 3. Anarchism and the War in the Near East 4. The Dawn of a New Day 5. Twilight The Last Year