Love Poems

Since Marxism has now become a formidable institution. and since Marx's genius was expressed in political philosophy and the "dismal science" of economics, it is often forgotten that Karl Marx lived and wrote during the final flowering of German Romanticism. These love poems, selected from the five volumes of poetry Marx wrote to the beautiful and witty Jenny von Westphalen, attest to this. They were written during his student years when he viewed "life in general as the expression of an... Voir plus