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The following articles are now, after forty-fiveyears, for the first time collected and printed inbook form. They are an invaluable pendant toMarx's work on the coup d'état of Napoleon III.("Der Achtzehnte Brumaire des Louis Bonaparte.")Both works belong to the same period,and both are what Engels calls "excellent specimensof that marvellous gift ... of Marx ...of apprehending clearly the character, the significance,and the necessary consequences of greathistorical events at a time when these events areactually in course of taking place, or are onlyjust completed."
These articles were written in 1851-1852, whenMarx had been about eighteen months in England.He was living with his wife, three youngchildren, and their life-long friend, Helene Demuth,in two rooms in Dean Street, Soho, almostopposite the Royalty Theatre. For nearly tenyears they had been driven from pillar to post.When, in 1843, the Prussian Government suppressedthe Rhenish Gazette which Marx hadedited, he went with his newly-married wife,[Pg 4]Jenny von Westphalen, to Paris. Not long after,his expulsion was demanded by the PrussianGovernment—it is said that Alexander von Humboldtacted as the agent of Prussia on this occasion—andM. Guizot was, of course, too politeto refuse the request. Marx was expelled, andbetook himself to Brussels. Again the PrussianGovernment requested his expulsion, and wherethe French Government had complied it was notlikely the Belgian would refuse. Marx receivedmarching orders.
But at this same time the French Governmentthat had expelled Marx had gone the way ofFrench Governments, and the new ProvisionalGovernment through Ferdinand Flocon invitedthe "brave et loyal Marx" to return to the countrywhence "tyranny had banished him, andwhere he, like all fighting in the sacred cause,the cause of the fraternity of all peoples," wouldbe welcome. The invitation was accepted, andfor some months he lived in Paris. Then he returnedto Germany in order to start the NewRhenish Gazette in Cologne. And the RhenishGazette writers had very lively times. Marx wastwice prosecuted, but as the juries would not convict,the Prussian Government took the nearerway and suppressed the paper.
Again Marx and his family returned to thecountry whose "doors" had only a few shortmonths before been "thrown open" to him. Thesky had changed—and the Government. "Weremained in Paris," my mother says in some biographicalnotes I have found, "a month. Here[Pg 5]< BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!
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