The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-17
OBITUARY,
Death of Karl Marx, the Originator of Com
munism,

LONDON. March 16.-A dispatch from Paris
says that Karl Marx, founder OF the Interna-
tional Workingmen's Association, died yes
terday at Argenteuil.
DR.. Frederick Engel, an intimate friend of
Karl Marx, says Marx died in London, near
Regents Park. DR.. Engel was present at the
death. The cause was bronchitis and abscess
of the lungs, causing internal bleeding. He
died without pain. Out of respect to the
wishes of Marx, who always avoided public
demonstration, the family have decided to
have a private funeral. About eighteen
persons will be present, including a few
friends coming from the Continent. The
place of interment is not announced. DR..
Engel will probably speak at the grave.
There will be no religious ceremony. Marx
spent partof the summer at Argenteuil, and
returned to London in October.
Karl Marx was born at Cologne in 1918.
He studied philosophy and law at the Uni
versities of Bonn and Berlin, and in 1912 en-
tered upon the editorship of the Gazette
Rheinane, which was suppressed in the fol-
lowing year on account of the radical opin-
ions it expressed, Marx then went to France,
where he turned his attention to the study
political and social economy. He published
in 1874 a Critical Review of the Philosophy
OF the Law of Hegei," and la Sainte
Famille Centre, Bauer Bruno ct Consorts,"
a satire directed against the ldealist school
of Germany. Expelled from France at the
demand of the Prussian government, he
sought refuge in Belgium. He was present
at the congress of workingmen in London,
in 1S47, and was one of the authors
of the Manifesto of the Commun-
istic Party" Upon che breaking out of
the revolution of 1913 he returned to Paris,
but soon afterward went to Cologne to estab-
lish the Nouvelle Gazette Rheinane. At the
dissolution of the Prussian Chambers he be,
gan to advocate the non-payment of taxes,
and his journal was in consequence sup
pressed. He continued, however, to urge his
views upon the people, and had to undergo
several trials, but was acquitted in each in
stance by the jury. The revolution in the
Grand Duchy of Baden having been sup
pressed he was banished from Germany, went
to Paris, took part in the days of June, and
was confined in the Morbihan, but succeeded
in escaping and went to reside in London.
He published, after the coup d'etat, two
pamphlets, THE Eighteenth Brumaire of
Louis Bonaparte." and Revelations of the
Proceedings of the Communists of Cologne"
the latter a violent attack against the Prus-
sian government and the people of Germany.
He conceived the idea of a workingmen's as
ISOLATION, which was effectually established
on the 18th of September, 1864, under the
name OF the international" NJ. Marx was
himself one of the first central council, which
formed the laws Of the association, adopted
in 1866 in the congress of Geneva, and was
made corresponding secretary for Germany
and Russia, though he was really the direc-
tor and moving spirit of the association.
Attacked in the congress of 1871 by the Eng
fish section, he was declared unworty to di-
rect the working classes. The split was
made. lasting the following year, at the con-
gress at the Hague, which declared the central
council in London dissolved, and caused the
resignation of NJ. Marx as secretary. The
association then divided into two parts, one
of which, the Centralists, with NJ. Marx, To-
Gated the state of the central council in New
York. NJ. Marx continued to reside in Lon
don, where he acted as correspondent for
one of the New York papers.