Karl Marx's smoking gun

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BBC News


Websites gleefully publish documents about celebrities - but the paper trail still follows people from history. The National Archives is shedding light on the little-seen paperwork behind some of the UK's biggest movers and shakers, and in an exclusive preview for the Magazine we start by looking at Karl Marx.

Marx - philosopher, social scientist, historian, revolutionary and... British newspaper shareholder?

Documents shedding light on the years spent by Marx in the UK are about to be put on display at the National Archives in Kew.

The exhibition Movers and Shakers provides manuscripts and artefacts belonging to some of the most influential figures in British history, from Geoffrey Chaucer to Elton John.

It discloses that one of the world's most famous social thinkers invested £4 as one of the original shareholders on a working class British newspaper, the Industrial, which dissolved in 1883.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4042187.stm

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1. Slightly misleading ...

... since it doesn't mentions Marx's stint as a freelance writer for the New York Herald Tribune and was employed by Horace Greeley for several years.

"The only gainful employment he looked for was as a railway clerk and that was rejected because his handwriting was so lousy.""

More of a slam article IMHO ...