Zum Schicksal der Marxschen Privatbibliothek
In: International review of social history, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 202-222
ISSN: 1469-512X
"You'll certainly fancy, my dear child, that I am very fond of books, because I trouble you with them at so unseasonable a time", schreibt Marx 1868 seiner auf Hochzeitsreise befindlichen Tochter Laura, um dann mit dem Unterton bitterer Selbstironie fortzufahren: "But you would be quite mistaken. I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history. A rather dreary task, too, […]."