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Babeuf, Buonarroti and the "conspiracy of equals" -- From the imperial purveyor of coin and capital to Heine and Karl Marx -- Heine's childhood -- Tsar Alexander, young Harry Heine and Karl Marx's father -- The leaders of Europe after the Congress of Vienna; Heine in love; Saint-Simon and other utopians -- Heine's three universities -- The Decembrist Revolution that failed -- Fathers and sons: Herzen and Bakunin in their youth -- Heine adrift and rebuffed in 1828 -- The July revolution: Saint-Simon, Fourier and Buonarroti -- Heine begins his life in Paris -- Karl Marx in high school and the "conversion conflict" -- The romantic Russians in exile and the coup that failed in Paris -- Karl Marx's first student year in Bonn -- "The hand of God" on Bakunin -- Young Engels among the Pietists of the Wupper Valley -- Moses Hess and "the new philosophy" -- Marx the student in Berlin -- Marx and the influence of Hegel -- Heine and his tycoon uncle Salomon -- On the threshold of the "extraordinary decade" -- Heine's warning about communism and the struggle against the King of Prussia -- George Herwegh, "the iron lark of revolution"; Heine on Ludwig Bhorne -- Founding the Rheinische Zeitung -- Cultural divisions in Berlin and Paris -- Problems for Marx and the "bourgeois king" of France -- A red October scatters the budding doctors of revolution -- Bakunin falls in love with "the people" and Marx gets married -- Marx, Prometheus, and "Moses in search of a people" -- The "doctors" gather in Paris and Marx discovers the "proletariat" -- The relationship between the prophet of communism and the poet who foresaw its horrors -- Marx's work in Paris -- The "doctors" take up their positions for the coming revolution -- Ferdinand Lassalle and Heine's "inheritance war" -- 1848: the making of the Communist manifesto -- The February revolution in Paris: "the madness of God" unleashed -- The dispersal of the doctors of revolution -- From "doctors" to Lenin. |
