World Socialist Web Site: 175 Jahre Franz Mehring
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Franz Mehring
Franz Erdmann Mehring was a German communist historian, literary and art critic, philosopher, and revolutionary socialist politician who was a senior member of the Spartacus League during the German Revolution of 1918–1919. He authored Karl Marx: The Story of His Life (1918), which was long considered the classical biography of Marx.
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culture · German communist historian, philosopher, and politician (1846–1919) · historian · journalist · politician · opinion journalist · philologist · playwright · socialist · writer · editing staff · also Franz Mehring, Franz Erdmann Mehring, Mehring
Born 27 February 1846 · Died 29 January 1919 · Q18806
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The bliss of murder! The relief, the soaring ecstasy from the shedding of another’s blood! Wese, old nightbird, friend, alehouse crony, you are oozing away into the dark earth below the street. Why aren’t you simply a bladder of blood so that I could stamp on you and make you vanish into nothingness? Not all we want comes true, not all the dreams that blossomed have borne fruit, your solid remains lie here, already indifferent to every kick. What’s the good of the dumb question you are asking?
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World Socialist Web Site: Vor hundert Jahren starb Franz Mehring
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Libcom: Karl Marx: the story of his life - Franz Mehring
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1919· 1 entry
Died 1919-01-29.
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1917· 1 entry
“The bliss of murder! The relief, the soaring ecstasy from the shedding of another’s blood! Wese, old nightbird, friend, alehouse crony, you are oozing away into the dark earth below the street. Why aren’t you simply a bladder of blood so that I could stamp on you and make you vanish into nothingness? Not all we want comes true, not all the dreams that blossomed have borne fruit, your solid remains lie here, already indifferent to every kick. What’s the good of the dumb question you are asking?”
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1916· 1 entry
The left-wing Marxist revolutionary Spartacus League was founded and Mehring was one of its main leaders alongside Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg
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1893· 1 entry
Mehring was the recipient of a letter from Friedrich Engels, in which the latter first wrote the phrase False consciousness
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1891· 1 entry
Mehring joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
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1884· 1 entry
Became chief editor of the Berliner Volks-Zeitung newspaper
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1882· 1 entry
With the dissertation: "The German social democracy, their history and their teaching"
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1880· 1 entry
Mehring began to study the works of Karl Marx
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1868· 1 entry
Mehring moved to Berlin to study and worked in the editorial office of the Die Zukunft newspaper
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1846· 1 entry
Born 1846-02-27.
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