Lieber noergler,

ich freu' mich ja echt, einen kundigen Mitwisser zu haben. Buenas noches, Du hast ja Recht, min Dschong! O.K., man will ja immer kurz und konzis bleiben, weshalb man vieles vereinfacht. Ich korrigier' mich bezüglich der anderthalb Jahrzehnte in London, die ein Drittel von Marx' aktiver Zeit ausmachten; aber auch dort empfing der Meister freundschaftliche Hilfe. Folgt ein Zitat aus der "Encyclopedia Britannica" (DVD version, 2001), die Du hoffentlich als vertrauenswürdig anerkennen wirst:



From 1850 to 1864 Marx lived in material misery and spiritual pain. His funds were gone, and except one occasion he could not bring himself to seek paid employment. In March 1850 he and his wife and four small children were evicted and their belongings seized. Several of his children died -- including a son Guido, "a sacrifice to bourgeois misery," and a daughter Franziska, for whom his wife rushed about frantically trying to borrow money for a coffin. For six years the family lived in two small rooms in Soho, often subsisting on bread and potatoes. The children learned to lie to the creditors: "Mr. Marx ain't upstairs." Once he had to escape them by fleeing to Manchester. His wife suffered breakdowns.

During all these years Engels loyally contributed to Marx's financial support. The sums were not large at first, for Engels was only a clerk in the firm of Ermen and Engels at Manchester. Later, however, in 1864, when he became a partner, his subventions were generous. Marx was proud of Engels' friendship and would tolerate no criticism of him. Bequests from the relatives of Marx's wife and from Marx's friend Wilhelm Wolff also helped to alleviate their economic distress.

Marx had one relatively steady source of earned income in the United States. On the invitation of Charles A. Dana, managing editor of The New York Tribune, he became in 1851 its European correspondent. The newspaper, edited by Horace Greeley, had sympathies for Fourierism, a Utopian socialist system developed by the French theorist Charles Fourier. From 1851 to 1862 Marx contributed close to 500 articles and editorials (Engels providing about a fourth of them). He ranged over the whole political universe, analyzing social movements and agitations [...]



Die Kiste mit den Dienstmädchen und den wohlhabenden Verwandten (die erst aufhörten, Karl zu unterstützen, als ihnen seine und Engels' Thesen zu aufrührerisch wurden) lässt sich ebenfalls belegen ...

Aber lass gut sein fürs erste. Herzliche Grüße,

Tomahawk