Excerpt from Marx’ Daughter

Celia: At the end of an intellectually stimulating and politically hair-raising relationship I entered the Revolution Bookstore near Union Square with my communist wanna-be boyfriend and, becoming bored quickly with the dry propaganda sparsely displayed on the undusted shelves, I focused on a postcard rack holding one of few images of a woman in the whole damn place.  The back of the card read, “Eleanor Marx was born into the British and international working class movement.  She made a significant contribution in her own right, as speaker and organizer for the Social Democratic Federation, as co-author of The Woman Question, and together with Engels as the custodian and literary executor of her father Karl Marx’s work.  She took her own life at age of 43.”

M. Kruszewska©1998