A-Infos (en) France, CNT-Gijon: On the anniversary of the death of Karl Marx, (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

On the anniversary of the death of Karl Marx, who lived his entire life 
as a "little gentleman" and valuing his work and authoritarian 
contribution of new states, we want to spread this text:. ---- "Remember 
Helena Demuth (1820-1890), THEIR SERVANT. The girl was a proletarian of 
poor origin recruited by the Marxes at the age of 15 for domestic 
service. ---- She spent her entire life in the Marx house, and appears 
in the correspondence of people who visited them. ---- Apart from this, 
Marx secretly made her a child (he abused her), being a married man and 
to avoid "shame." , Marx entrusted the baby to his friend Engels, who 
was single.
Who raised the boy (he put him to work in his tool factory in Manchester).
And when Marx died, he also took care of Helena (he made her work in her 
house).
Helena's remains were buried at the request of Marx's daughters (Eleanor 
and Laura), in the family tomb (since she was part of it). She left £95 
to her son Freddy.
Marx's arrogant sexist ways were also directed against Bakunin and 
Antonia on another occasion:
In the first workers' international, Bakunin confronted Marx and his 
followers who did not hesitate to ridicule his positions regarding the 
emancipation of women, as part of their arguments to try to break the 
influence of Bakunin and the anarchists in the International
Marx used adjectives against Bakunin and Antonia (his romantic partner); 
pointing out Bakunin as "little man" or "hermaphrodite", when both 
signed the Program of the International Socialist Alliance.
He ridiculed Antonia for "daring to sign the document" and pointed out 
how bad it was that Antonia had lovers and that Bakunin said nothing 
about it and also cared for her and acted as a loving father to her 
children.
Let us also remember that Marx celebrated the death of his own mother, 
since for this reason he was going to collect her inheritance...
"... Servant or wife, it is on the woman, now and always, that the man 
counts on to free himself from the work of the home. But at last the 
woman also claims her part in the emancipation of humanity.
She no longer wants to continue being the beast of burden of the house. 
She is already enough with all the years of her life that she has to 
dedicate to raising her children. She no longer wants to continue being 
the cook, the cobbler, the sweeper of the house!..."
Pyotr Kropotkin

Gijón People's House
Anarcho-Syndicalism

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