Speech in English by Friedrich Engels in Highgate Cemetery in London on March 17, 1883. First published in the newspaper Sozialdemokrat of March 22, 1883.
March 14, a quarter to three in the afternoon, he stopped thinking about the greatest thinker of our time. Just leave him just two minutes, and when we returned, he found asleep in his chair slowly, but forever.
is quite impossible to calculate what the militant proletariat of Europe and America and historical science have been lost to this man. Fed will soon feel the void that has opened the death of this giant figure.
Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the fact, so simple, but hidden under brush idológica, that man needs, first Instead, eat, drink, have shelter and clothing before politics, science, art, religion, etc., and that, therefore, production of immediate livelihoods, materials, and therefore the economic phase of development for a people or an epoch is the base from which have developed political institutions, legal concepts, ideas and even artistic religious ideas of men and under which should, therefore, explain, and not vice versa, as had hitherto been doing. But this is not just. Marx also discovered the special law that moves the present mode of capitalist production and bourgeois society he created. The discovery of surplus value suddenly brightened these problems, while all previous investigations, both those of the bourgeois economists and socialist critics of had wandered in the darkness ...
Two discoveries such as these should suffice for a lifetime. Whoever is lucky enough to make just such a discovery, and can be considered happy. But there was a single field which Marx under investigation, and these fields were many, and not merely to play in passing not one-including mathematics, which fails to make original discoveries. Such was the man of science. But this was not, by far, half the man. For Marx, science was a driving historical force, a revolutionary force. For pure joy that could be the start seeing A new discovery made in any theoretical science whose practical application perhaps could not be foreseen at all, was quite another the enjoyment I experienced when a discovery was immediately exerted an influence in revolutionizing the industry and the historical development in general . So continued to detail the progress of discoveries in the field of electricity, to those of Marcel Deprez in recent times.
For Marx was above all a revolutionary. Cooperate, in this or the other way, the overthrow of capitalist society and political institutions created by it, contribute to the emancipation of the proletariat modern, whom he had struck for the first time aware of their own situation and its needs, conscious of the conditions of their emancipation, such was the true mission of his life. Fighting was his element. And he fought with a passion, a tenacity and a success like few others. First Rheinische Zeitung, 1842; Vorwärts Paris, 1844; German Gazette Brussels, 1847, Neue Rheinische Zeitung, 1848-1849, New York Tribune, 1852 to 1861, to all of which must be added a bunch of brochures fight and organizations working in Paris, Brussels and London, until, finally, was born to cap all, the great International Workers Association, which was, indeed, a work of which its author could be proud of, but had not created anything else.
So Marx was the most hated and most maligned of his time. Governments, as the absolutists that repulicanos, expelled. The bourgeoisie, like the ultra-democratic conservatives, competed to throw slurs against him. Marx away all this aside like cobwebs, if it did, only the urgent need to answer when demanded. And dead is revered, loved, mourned by millions of workers to the revolutionary cause, like him, scattered across Europe and America, from the mines Siberia to California. And I can dare say that if he could have many opponents, only had a single enemy personal.Su name will live through the centuries, and with him his work.
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