Volume 56, Number 16 · October 22, 2009
He Kept Marx Going
By Adam Kirsch
Marx's General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels
by Tristram Hunt
Metropolitan, 430 pp., $32.00
The traffic of pilgrims to the grave of Karl Marx, in London's Highgate Cemetery, may not be as large as it once was. But at least the grave still exists, presided over by the enormous black bust erected by the British Communist Party in the 1950s, after so many statues of Marx's heirs have been destroyed. 'His name will endure through the ages, and so also will his work,' said Friedrich Engels in a speech at Marx's funeral, on March 17, 1883; and even if the second part of that prophecy seems doubtful today, the first is surely beyond dispute.
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