The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-14
By EDMoNDO PELUso, Moscow.

Dy EDmOINDO Ell ~, MOstOW'
A MARX and Engels Exhibition"
n has been opened at the Marx
Engels Institute. 1t is not mere
display of objects documents,
books, pictures, etc.. The special
feature of the exhibition is that it
has given life to all it's exhibits,
that the documents (letters, manu-
scripts, etc. bring before the visi-
tor a whole era of fights, of
theological and political struggles.
The task which the Marx-Engels
Institute had set itself was directed
towards illustrating in methodical
fashion the development of the
thought and work of the two great
est men of the nineteenth century.
The chronological order thereby OBJ
served is only the motif of the great
events of the second portion Of the
past century in which Marx and
Engels participated directly or in
directly.
In order to illustrate the con-
tinuity in the development of their
thoughts and actions, the exhibition
goes back to the first "utopianism"
of modern times, to the Communism
of the 10th, 18th and 18th centuries,
to Thomas Moore with his utopia"
and Campanella with his "Sun
State" In Room l are exhibited
the richest collections of original
editions which the world possesses
of the whole philosc bic theology of
the forerunners of Marx, i. e., of
the great bourgeois thinkers: Mach
iavelli and Vico, Descartes and
Spinoza, Diderot and Voltaire, Hell
vetius and ]. J. Rousseau. Side by
side with the philosophical world of
thought and the theories of the
great economists and of the great
Jacobins, we also see the first signs
of instruction against social in
Justice: the Peasants War in Ger
many, the big instruction in Eng
land, and, finally, the French revo-
luton.
The industrial revolution, which
took place in the brief period of a
few decades, created the industrial
proletariat, which groans under the
yoke of capitalism. Utopianism
flourished at the same time. Room
II, "the great modern Utopians,"
displays in a few showcases all
that is necessary for the coppre-
hension of the Saint Simonian reli-
gion, of Fourier's theory of society
with his phalansteries, Owen with
his New Lanark, his model factory,
etc.
Misery and physical and mental
suffering everywhere drive the
proletarian masses to action and to
the search for their own salvation.
In Room III we are witnesses of
the first risings of the proletariat
in Lyons and Peterloo (England) /,
the Frankfort coup d'Etat, ETC.; the
July revolution mad the instruction
of Warsaw take place again before
our eyes. Socialist thought begins
to flourish, even though still con-
fused and uncertain. Blanqui is
here the first organizer of the
working class with distinct
thought and definite aim the
seizure of power by the proletariat.
In Room w, we now come to the
real object of the exhibition. 1t is
the room devoted to the youthful
years of Marx and Engels. The
visitor is at once introduced into
the family life of the two great
men. Trier and Barmen 1.-THE birth
places of Marx and Engels respac-
tively) are contrasted, as also the
two families: the Jewish, liberal
and intellectual family of Marx, the
protestant, pious, big-industrialst
family of Engels. But though the
origins of these two men are so diff
ferent, from quite early years, and
without knowing one another, they
follow the path which later brings
them together to march shoulder to
shoulder and never to part COM
pany.
Even in his school work young
Marx displays the deliberation of a
mature man. Engels, on the other
hand, seeks escape from the tedium