Marx's General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels by Hunt Tristram

Author:Hunt, Tristram [Hunt, Tristram]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781429983556
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: 2010-08-02T16:00:00+00:00

* To provide some kind of context, the social commentator Dudley Baxter analyzed the 1861 census to produce a class analysis of mid- Victorian En gland relative to income. To scrape into the middle class was to earn over the taxable threshold of £100, with parsons, army officers, doctors, civil servants, and barristers usually operating in the £250–£350 salary range. Baxter thought that to join the comfortable upper middle classes one had to take home an annual salary of £1,000–£5,000. In contrast to Engels’s riches, another great Victorian writer, Anthony Trollope, was having to get by on £140 a year at his day job as a post office clerk.

* In 2004, when the Labor government introduced legislation to ban foxhunting, Engels’s membership in the Cheshire Hunt was cited in its defense. “The idea of joining the class war with fox hunting is pathetic as well as nasty, as was very well demonstrated by no less an authority on both subjects than Friedrich Engels,” Lord Gilmour of Craigmillar told the House of Lords during a debate on the Hunting Bill. “I think that shows that, at least in some ways, old communism was much more sensible than new Labour.” And Engels was not the only Victorian left-winger with a penchant for the saddle: Michael Sadler, leader of the Factory Reform movement; Joseph Arch, the farmworkers’ leader; and Robert Applegarth, the general secretary of the Carpenters and Joiners all rode to hounds.

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