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MARX-ENGELS JAHRBUCH 2008 Akademie Verlag MEJB 2008 Berlin 2009 © Internationale Marx-Engels-Stiftung Internationale Marx-Engels-Stiftung Vorstand Kirill Anderson, Dieter Dowe, Jaap Kloosterman, Herfried Münkler Sekretariat Manfred Neuhaus Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften Redaktion des Jahrbuches Beatrix Bouvier, Galina Golovina, Gerald Hubmann Verantwortlich: Gerald Hubmann, Claudia Reichel Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften Wissenschaftlicher Beirat Shlomo Avineri, Gerd Callesen, Robert E. Cazden, Iring Fetscher, Eric J. Fischer, Patrick Fridenson, Francesca Gori, Andrzej F. Grabski, Carlos B. Gutie´rrez, Hans-Peter Harstick, Eric J. Hobsbawm, Hermann Klenner, Michael Knieriem, Jürgen Kocka, Nikolaj Lapin, Hermann Lübbe, Michail Mcˇedlov, Teodor Ojzerman, Bertell Ollman, Tsutomu Ouchi, Hans Pelger, Pedro Ribas, Bertram Schefold, Wolfgang Schieder, Hans Schilar, Walter Schmidt, Gareth Stedman Jones, Jean Stengers, Shiro Sugihara, Immanuel Wallerstein Bibliografische Information der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Internet über http://dnb.d-nb.de abrufbar. ISBN 978-3-05-004599-3 © Akademie Verlag GmbH, Berlin 2009 Das eingesetzte Papier ist alterungsbeständig nach DIN/ISO 9706. Alle Rechte, insbesondere die der Übersetzung in andere Sprachen, vorbehalten. Kein Teil des Buches darf ohne Genehmigung des Verlages in irgendeiner Form – durch Fotokopie, Mikroverfilmung oder irgendein anderes Verfahren – reproduziert oder in eine von Maschinen, insbesondere von Datenverarbeitungsmaschinen, verwendbare Sprache übertragen oder übersetzt werden. Druck und Bindung: Druckhaus „Thomas Müntzer“ GmbH, Bad Langensalza Printed in the Federal Republic of Germany MEJB 2008 Berlin 2009 © Internationale Marx-Engels-Stiftung Inhalt Charles Reitz Horace Greeley, Karl Marx, and German 48ers: Anti-Racism in the Kansas Free State Struggle, 1854–64 9 Ariane Fischer The Critique of Philosophy qua Mental Labor in The German Ideology 33 Hendrik Wallat Der Begriff der Verkehrung im Denken von Marx 68 Kolja Lindner Die Editionsgeschichte der Werke von Marx und Engels in Frankreich und ihr Neubeginn mit der Grande E´ dition Marx et Engels (GEME) 103 Aus der editorischen Arbeit Richard Sperl Karl Marx an Sophie von Hatzfeldt, 16. Oktober 1864 Beschreibung des Originalbriefes Nachtrag zu MEGA➁ Band III/13 121 5 MEJB 2008 Berlin 2009 © Internationale Marx-Engels-Stiftung Inhalt Karl Marx an Sophie von Hatzfeldt in Berlin London, 16. Oktober 1864 124 Korrigendum zu MEGA➁ II/13 126 Berichte Margret Dietzen, Elisabeth Neu Marx in vielen Facetten Tagungen und Veranstaltungen im Jubiläumsjahr 129 Gert Lange Von der Illusion, den Geist zu töten Marx in Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft – eine Braunschweiger Tagung 139 Rezensionen Matthias Bohlender: Metamorphosen des liberalen Regierungs- denkens. Politische Ökonomie, Polizei und Pauperismus. Rezensiert von Michael Heinrich 145 Ingo Elbe: Marx im Westen. Die neue Marx-Lektüre in der Bundes- republik seit 1965. Rezensiert von Christoph Henning 149 Helmut Reichelt: Neue Marx-Lektüre. Zur Kritik sozialwissenschaft- licher Logik. Rezensiert von Ingo Elbe 158 Roberto Fineschi: Un nuovo Marx. Filologia e interpretazione dopo la nuova edizione storico-critica (MEGA➁). Rezensiert von Antonella Muzzupappa 162 Jan Hoff: Karl Marx und die „ricardianischen Sozialisten“. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der politischen Ökonomie, der Sozialphilosophie und des Sozialismus. Rezensiert von Claudia Reichel 167 6 MEJB 2008 Berlin 2009 © Internationale Marx-Engels-Stiftung Inhalt Karl Grün: Ausgewählte Schriften in zwei Bänden. Mit einer biogra- phischen und werkanalytischen Einleitung hrsg. von Manuela Köppe. Rezensiert von Christine Weckwerth 176 Grüß Gott! Da bin ich wieder! Karl Marx in der Karikatur. Gesammelt und herausgegeben von Rolf Hecker, Hans Hübner und Shunichi Kubo. Rezensiert von Beatrix Bouvier 182 Zusammenfassungen 185 Summaries 187 Autorenverzeichnis 189 Abkürzungsverzeichnis 190 7 MEJB 2008 Berlin 2009 © Internationale Marx-Engels-Stiftung MEJB 2008 Berlin 2009 © Internationale Marx-Engels-Stiftung Horace Greeley, Karl Marx, and German 48ers: Anti-Racism in the Kansas Free State Struggle, 1854–64 Charles Reitz U.S. history in the era prior to the Civil War occurred on tumultuous political terrain that is still highly contested academically. One of its most controversial episodes is the struggle for a slavery-free Kansas. This essay will show how crucial aspects of this history have been marginalized and/or repressed in con- ventional scholarly accounts, and will build an interpretive framework with widened cultural and political scope. This will derive from its freshened vision of the unique contributions of three key social change agents: (1) Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune and (2) German 48er freedom fighters re-located to the Kansas Territory after 1855. Critical insight will emerge also, perhaps unexpectedly, from the greater acquaintance this essay seeks to provide with the relatively unfamiliar dispatches by (3) a German 48er journalist working from London for Greeley, Karl Marx. Following the perspective of Frederick Douglass, discussed in more detail below, this essay acknowledges the abiding residual effects of racism among many (perhaps most) of the otherwise politically progressive whites of the day. Nicole Etcheson has recognized this explicit Kansas Free State capitulation to white privilege in her recent history of Bleeding Kansas.1 My studies on the other hand disclose the manner in which a variety of vanguard white radicals stood in alliance with the leading voices of radically egalitarian African Amer- icans, anti-slavery Native Americans, and Kansas German-Americans engaged in the Free State struggle. By focusing on the emancipatory political praxis emergent during this epoch, we find that a significant white leadership existed that was radically committed to racial equality. This view adds important con- trast and offsets Etcheson’s unduly baleful descriptions of the white racial 1 See Nicole Etcheson: Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era. Lawrence, KS 2004. Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 2008. S. 9–32. 9 MEJB 2008 Berlin 2009 © Internationale Marx-Engels-Stiftung Charles Reitz discrimination that certainly did exist within even the Kansas Free State strug- gle.2 Scholarship such as I am undertaking here must first of all recognize the formative African American self-liberation effort that occurred in the period leading up to the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. A record of radical publications3 documents the 19th century anti-slavery movement built by African American editors, writers, and intellectuals. White abolitionists worked during this period in strategic solidarity with this movement. In 1854 the New England Emigrant Aid Society was founded to encourage the Free State settlement of the Kansas Territory. In the years immediately prior, Fred- erick Douglass had issued the following challenge to white radicals and lib- erals, moving many to action. His address referred to the 1848–49 revolutions across Europe as a vivid inspiration toward freedom, but expressed his pained regret at the lack of attention to the pressing and urgent abolition issue in America: “You invite to your shores fugitives of oppression from abroad, honor them with banquets, greet them with ovations, cheer them, toast them, salute them, protect them, and pour out your money to them like water, but the fugitive from your own land you advertise, hunt, arrest, shoot and kill ... You are all on fire at the mention of liberty for France or for Ireland, but are cold as an iceberg at the thought of liberty for the enslaved of America. You discourse eloquently on the dignity of labor; yet you sustain a system which, in its very essence, casts a stigma upon labor.” 4 2 The heterodoxy of this essay derives from its academic appreciation of intercultural issues in historical research and writing as well as the need for a reconstructed multicultural curriculum in the humanities and social sciences in higher education today. I am indebted to the scholarly excitement widely generated on these and related themes by Fred Whitehead, long-time Kansas editor of the “Freethought History” newsletter and the historical anthology “Freethought on the American Frontier” (Buffalo, NY 1992). Steve Spartan and Steve Collins likewise first evoked my interest in Free State history with visits years ago to the Old Quindaro site of German abolitionist immigration to the area near Kansas City, Kansas. This account is especially in- debted to several kind suggestions from Frank Baron. I am of course solely responsible for any weaknesses that might remain in this report of my ongoing research. 3 See for example: Samuel Cornish and John B. Russwurm’s “The First Negro Newspaper’s Opening Editorial, 1827” (March 16, 1827) that emphatically argued the necessity of blacks pleading their own cause; Henry Highland Garnet’s “Address to the Slaves of the United States of America” (August 16, 1843) which was a radical call to black and slave resistance; Jermain Wesley Loguen’s bold assertion of black manhood and black pride in “I am a Fugitive Slave,” (1850); and Frederick Douglass’s “What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July?” (1852). All collected (some in abridged form) in Herbert Aptheker [ed.]: A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States. With a Preface