Karl Marx and Company

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Jennifer Siegel, At Home With Karl Marx; With kids playing at his feet, he penned the works that poisoned a century. Wall Street Journal, Sept 23, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904353504576566673280799508.html
(book review on Mary Gabriel, Love and Capital; Karl Marx and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution. Little, Brown, 2011)

Note:
(a) The German and Jewish surname Siegel denotes a seal maker (Middle High German sigel ‘seal’).
(b) Karl Marx (1818 Trier–1883 London)
* Trier
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trier
* The german and Jewish surname Marx is a variant spelling of "Marks"--descendants of Mark.
(c) Jenny von Westphalen (1814-1881; wife of Karl Marx; engaged in 1836 and married in 1843)
(d) paterfamilias (n; plural: patrefamilias; Latin, from pater "father" + familias, archaic genitive of familia "household"):
"1: the male head of a household
2: the father of a family"
www.m-w.com

(e) The "preside" in "presiding focus"
(vi): "to exercise guidance, direction, or control"
(f) Friedrich Engels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Engels
(1820-1895; eldest son of a wealthy German cotton manufacturer)
(g) dissemble (vi, vt): "to hide under a false appearance"
(h) Paris Commune  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune  
(i) two-bit (adj):
"1: of the value of two bits
2: cheap or trivial of its kind : PETTY, SMALL-TIME <a two–bit chiseler>"

bit (n):
"2a : a small piece or quantity of some material thing
b (1) : a small coin (2) : a unit of value equal to 1⁄8 of a dollar"

(j) charlatan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlatan
(k) surfeit (n; Middle English surfet, from Anglo-French, from surfaire to overdo, from sur- + faire to do, from Latin facere):
"an overabundant supply : EXCESS"
(l) A few years ago while studying economics on my own as a hobby, I could not find a economics textbook that dealed with theories of Karl Marx.

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