by Karl Marx started his political journey as a republican before becoming a socialist and communist. This was not the end of the story. What happened next? The Republican Labour Working Group is organising a reading and study series around the politics of Citizen Marx by Bruno Leipold.
- Click here to register here for the series.
- Download Bruno Leipold’s work here as a PDF file – we will be discussing a short number of pages for each session.
- Contact the Republican Labour Working Group here to get involved: republicanlabour@
gmail.com
Next session – FRIDAY 27 MAY 2022
[IN] THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICANS
- The Republicanism of Karl Heinzen and William James Linton, pages 127-134
QUESTION ONE, page 128 top
Why did Heinzen go into exile in 1844? Who did he meet in Zurich? Was he already a republican?
QUESTION 2, page 128
In the German revolution of 1848, what did Heinzen propagandise for in Baden?
QUESTION 3, page 128
After the German revolution failed, and Heinzen went to London, why did the Times call for his expulsion?
QUESTION 4, top page 129 – to top 130
On what occasions did Marx and Heinzen had opportunity to meet, and how did this end?
QUESTION 5, top page 130 to top 131
What did an editorial in the September 1847 German-Brussels Gazette report about Heinzen? What did Heinzen then say about Engels, and what did Marx say about it all?
QUESTION 6, page 131
What serious and important engagements laid behind these ad hominem attacks – (addressed to the person, not to a view)?
QUESTION 7, page 131
Why should this exchange (Heinzen-Engels-Marx) be seen as a wider process of differentiation between republicans and communists?
QUESTION 8, bottom page 131
Did William James Linton play a prominent role in Marx’ life? If not, how did Marx’ communism and Linton’s republicanism come to show side-by-side?
QUESTION 9, top page 132
How did Linton’s association with Mazzini get him (Linton) to be sent to Paris to congratulate the February 1848 revolutionary provisional government in France?
QUESTION 10, bottom page 132
What could be said to be Linton’s most important contribution to republican thought?
QUESTION 11 – page 133
Why should the relative historical neglect of Linton’s political contribution to republicanism be rectified?
QUESTION 12, page 134
What are the three programmatic articles in Linton’s English Republic? What republican ideas was he passionate about and committed to?
Next session after this one – 10 June in principle – will be:
[IN] THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICANS
- The Political versus the Social – pages 134 to 143.
