Part of the series of biographies of Karl Marx.
Left communist Karl Korsch's detailed biography of Karl Marx.
From www.bopsecrets.org
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Thanks for this. I've only read a rough photocopy of this scanned version (before Ken Knabb formatted and edited it for his website), but Korsch's biography of Marx is the best I've ever read. Second place goes to Otto Rühle's Karl Marx: His Life and His Work, although I agree with Paul Mattick Sr.'s critique (from Anti-Bolshevik Communism) in "Otto Rühle and the German Labour Movement"
Korsch didn't make the same mistake.
And interesting backstory to Korsch's biography on Ken Knabb's website is that a comrade was working in the Cascade Mountains as a fire lookout, à la Jack Kerouac in the Dharma Bums, and had laptop, scanner and a photovoltaic charger and spent much of his free time scanning the whole book that he'd borrowed from Ken.
EDIT: I just added Mattick's review of Korsch's biography http://libcom.org/library/review-“karl-marx”-karl-korsch.
That is interesting!
At a previous job of mine I managed to digitise loads of stuff as well. Definitely a good use of work time…
admin note: the troll who keeps registering accounts to down vote comments by Hieronymus has had two more accounts banned. I would really suggest he get a life, and maybe a hobby, if he has nothing better to do
H, it's a shame you removed your comment, as it was interesting. As previously, the down-votes were from a troll who has personal beef with you, who has been banned yet again. I would just ignore him and edit your comment back in