Karl Marx: 10 great quotes on his birthday

[HiPointDem]

51. I find no such quote in the most complete database of Marx/Engels work that exists.

I see Engels called Bakunin a monster, though.

http://www.google.com/search?as_sitesearch=www.marxists.org%2Farchive%2Fmarx%2F&hl=en&ie=8859-1&oe=8859-1&as_occt=any&num=30&btnG=Google+Search%21&as_epq=monster&as_occt=all&as_q=&as_oq=&as_eq=

Maybe you'd like to offer a cite?

Or it didn't happen.


Here's how such a quote is cited on the internetz by wingers, as an epitaph on an essay once again intended to show how eeeevillll marx was...

Marx is a marked monstrosity -- Friedrich Engels

http://monstermarx.info/index.html


Here's the actual source of the quote:

The Triumph of Faith: To Wit, the Terrible, Yet True and Salutary History of the Erstwhile Licentiate Bruno Bauer; How the Same, Seduced by the Devil, Fallen from the True Faith, Became Chief Devil, and Was Well and Truly Ousted in the End: A Christian Epic in Four Cantos

First published: as an anonymous pamphlet in Neumunster, near Zurich, in December 1842;

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1842/cantos/index.htm

Written by Engels as a political satire.

Scarce was this Manifesto broadcast far and wide,
When awful urges, evil cravings surge inside
Each brazen breast to leave forthwith for Bockenheim...

Right on the very left, that tall and long-legged stepper
Is Oswald, (Engels) coat of grey and trousers shade of pepper;

As soon as they arrive, in bursts the frantic (philosopher Bruno) Bauer,
Engulfed in smoke and steam and Hell-rain’s deadly shower.
He raves, a lanky villain in a coat of green;
Behind the leering face Hell’s offspring can be seen...

Who runs up next with wild impetuosity?
A swarthy chap of Trier (Marx), a marked monstrosity...
He neither hops nor skips, but moves in leaps and bounds,
Raving aloud...

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1842/cantos/ch03.htm