The
uncanny proximity of Wilhelm Clouth to Karl Marx and Engels
Wilhelm
Clouth
Father of
Franz Clouth
1807-1871
Between capital and socialism
We have not
had much to know about him until we get in touch with Dr. Dr. Francois Melis on
April 20, 2006, who worked on the revision of the Marx-Engels complete edition
(MEGA-Edition).
Wilhelm Clouth
Katharina Clouth
Baptism
book for Wilhelm
"The MEGA is a secular enterprise in the truest
sense of the word, and its beginnings, its failure
and its resurrection mirror the paradoxical
tragedies of the twentieth century.
If, according to the edition's timetable, it will
have been completed by the year 2025, it will have
been exactly a hundred years which were necessary to
open up the work of Marx and Engels to the reading
public in an original, uncensored manner. The time, February 25, 1999)
The Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe was started in the
1970s in Berlin and Moscow.
It gained high prestige in professional circles and
is present in all major libraries in the world.
After 1989, scientists, politicians and publishers from many European
countries, Japan and the USA have emphatically been
committed to the continuation of the issue.
The Communist Manifesto and capital of Karl Marx are
one of the most important writings of the nineteenth
century and have decisively shaped European
modernity.
In June 2013, UNESCO included the Communist
Manifesto and the first volume of the capital in the
register of the documentary "Memory of the World".
On the podium,
decision-makers and expert questions on the
influence of the writings of Karl Marx on social
movements of the past and what we can learn from the
writings for the present
and the
future.
Do you really want to discuss it for so long?
Over 80
million dead to this chapter, the authors predicted
that the prized classless society had cost. The book
was edited in 1997, now more millions have been
added!Dr. Melis wrote in any case:"I have come to
know you as one of the descendants of Wilhelm Clouth
and Franz Clouth, about researches in the Historical
Archives of Cologne and in the Stiftung
Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv Köln, as
well as in the Internet (industrial monument Clouth,
MJBVerlag, Manfred Backhaus, etc.) Clouth I
researched in 1996-1998 in Cologne and published the
results in various articles. "
The reason for these searches is the fact that Wilhelm Clouth printed the "Neue
Rheinische Zeitung" in An St. Agatha no. 12 (Ecke Schildergasse) from 31 May to
27 August 1848. On the first floor of the printing shop, the editors also had
their headquarters. The chief editor was Karl Marx, the communistic editor of
"Das
Kapital"..
In the historical-critical edition of the Marx-Engels (the MEGA-Edition
(The Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) is the complete,
historically critical edition of the publications, the omitted manuscripts (drafts)
and the correspondence of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It presents the
complete literary legacy of Marx and Engels in its entirety. To the already
known writings, articles and letters - also the letters addressed to them by
third parties - come a series of previously unpublished or newly discovered
works. In addition, all manuscripts, drafts, notes and excerpts are published),
also available online, is coordinated at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of
Sciences, 2005 the 53rd volume has been published; supposedly the complete MEGA
will be finished in 2025).
Dr. Melis worked on three volumes of the MEGA, in which about 580 articles and
explanations by Marx and Engels from the "Neue Rheinische Zeitung" are published.
These three volumes also document the history of this newspaper, including the
collaboration with Wilhelm Clouth.
This is also the reason why he contacted the lawyer Jürgen Clouth. Although he
had already been able to find numerous testimonies on the life and work of
Wilhelm Clouth, he was looking for further documents of the collaboration of the
printer owner with Marx, the contract between the two for the printing of the
newspaper, the surveys and searches of the Prussian authorities at Clouth, etc.
The MEGA will be more glorious than the actual reality of the time and the
hidden functions of Marx
In this way, the wish to contact the signatory also arose, in order to determine
further documents of the great-grandfather with his support. He was also eager
to make copies of the Clouth archive, even if it were "only" copies and
photographs (such as the house with the printing shop of Wilhelm Clouth, whose
owner he was). "
Thankfully, in the meantime we have gained numerous insights from Dr. Dr. Melis
over Wilhelm, for which we expressly thank him again. With this authorization,
we may pass these on to interested parties as follows:
The business premises / printing shop of Wilhelm Clouth were not, as in the book
of Manfred Backhausen, originally accepted under the address Heumarkt 27, but
rather he had his own printing house in "An St. Agatha No. 12" no later than
1841. (Address book of the city of Cologne 1841). Either immediately or at a
later date, Clouth also acquired the two-storey house as a property
at the entrance "Schildergasse",
corner at
um 1870, Rheinische
Bildarchiv, Köln
St. Agatha with house No. 12 (see arrow),
where the printing shop of Wilhelm Clouth was located. From June 1, 1848, the
Neue Rheinische Zeitung appeared there. The editors, headed by Karl Marx, had
their seat on the first floor. The number 88 of August 29, 1848, could not
appear because of inconsistencies with the printer. Friedrich Engels - Karl Marx
at this time in Vienna - succeeded within a few hours to secure the further
pressure of the newspaper with Johann Wilhelm Dietz.
That, as initially assumed, the company Büscheler & Comp. the NRhZ was printed,
is based on an error. The "Herald on the Rhine" was printed at this company,
which was located in Brückenstraße No. 13, as the imprint of No. 39 of 28
September 1837 shows. Three days later, a change of ownership might have
occurred, for on 1 September 1837 the imprint of the above-mentioned page is as
follows: "Clouth & Comp. Bridges Street No. 13 ".
This is confirmed in a review of the rehearsal sheet of the "Rheinischer
Beobachter" of September 30, 1844, p. 4, since Clouth published his enterprise
as "Book and Congreve Printing, by W. Clouth St. Agatha No. 12 in Cologne."
In "An St. Agatha no. 12" the NRhZ was then printed from 31 May to 28 August
1848. It was highly probable that the editorial office was also located on the
first floor. Only after an argument between Friedrich Engels and Clouth - Marx
was at this time in Vienna - the newspaper was printed with Johann Wilhelm Dietz
in "Untermachmacher" No. 17, today Heumarkt No. 65.
The
massive enmity against Marx resulted not only because the "Manifesto" was
published in London in February 1848. It has been printed anonymously, and only
a few insiders knew it was written by him and Engels. The strong reservations
against Marx were caused by the fact that under the leaflet "Requests of the
Communist Party in Germany" from the end of March, 1848, also his name "Clouth"
was named. This document was also printed in various newspapers in Germany, and
as a communist, Marx was suspicious of the public in no small measure. For this
reason, he also worked completely in the background during the six-week
preparations for the NRhZ, leaving Heinrich Bürgers, who enjoyed a great
reputation as a moderate democrat in Cologne, as the future chief editor of the
newspaper. Only two or three days before the publication of the newspaper, Marx
proclaimed that he was at the top of the NRHZ as "editor and chef" by announcing
in large daily newspapers (among other things in the Kölnische Zeitung,
Allgemeine Zeitung Augsburg, Düsseldorfer Zeitung).
On Wilhelm Clouth Dr. Melis published in the magazine "History in Cologne" No.
43 of August 1998 under the title "Cooperation and Cancellation. The two
printers of the "Neue Rheinische Zeitung" were entered in the appendix: Dr.
Melis wrote to Jürgen Clouth: "I will send you two letters from the MEGA
volumes III / 2 and III / 3, in which Wilhelm Clouth plays a role. From these
the connections are also evident". The graphics following now show these
letters:
The Marx-Engels dizziness
The Communist Manifesto
"You are
still sitting up there, their cowardly figures, paid for by the enemy, and
mocked the people. But once again there will be righteousness, and the people
shall judge, and God rejoice. "
C. Th. Körner, 1791-1813
Karl Marx was married to the little sister of Prussian Interior Minister
Ferdinand von Westphalen. This is almost the whole secret of Marxism - "hidden
in plain sight," as the English would say, and yet well hidden enough that
hardly anyone knows until now. The large industrial, the high aristocracy and
high finance feared an alliance between the workers' movement and the
bourgeoisie, that is to say the small entrepreneurs, traders, craftsmen, and
officials, right up to the churches. The secret task of Karl Marx and his
philistines and followers was and still is to prevent this alliance between
citizens and workers' movement. To this end, the wildest ideas of communism,
atheism, world revolution, and dictatorship of the proletariat are spread among
workers and their trade unions and parties - at that time by Karl Marx, now
mostly by students from the upper classes - so that all citizens, expropriation,
Materialism, the abolition of the nation and the family, and a life in communism,
can be mobilized against the workers' movement and won over for the interests of
the big industry, the aristocracy and high finance.
Karl Marx has openly proclaimed that Communist ideas "would stir up the
furies of private interest" against the workers' movement and thus against
the women and children who had been killed in factories and miners. The demand
for better working conditions and higher wages, on the other hand, would have
been supported by the bourgeoisie, which itself had to compete with the big
industry, but as a small entrepreneur could profit from better wages in the
factories:
In the field of political economy, free scientific research encounters not only
the same enemies as in all other fields. The peculiar nature of the substance
which it treats invites against them the most violent, petty, and most hideous
passions of the human breast, the furies of private interest, to the
battle-place. The English High Church, e.g. Forgives the attack on 38 of its 39
religious articles rather than 1/39 of its money. Nowadays, atheism itself is a
culpa levis, a small sin, compared to the critique of the state of property
ownership.
Marx becomes
editor-in-chief of the Rheinische Zeitung in Cologne
Karl Marx was appointed head of the Rheinische Zeitung in Cologne. In this
function, Marx attacked former friend Bruno Bauer (
Bruno
Bauer was a theologian, originally promoted by the king and the government, with
a good prospect of an influential professorship at the University of Berlin)
and
his followers openly and tried to push back their influence on the Rheinische
Zeitung (Bruno
Bauer became a radical dissident who still sought to overcome the theses of
David Friedrich Strauss in radicalism. Bruno Bauer succeeded in gathering a
large circle of students and academics, the doctor's lecture soon known in
Berlin for his critical activities, through
restless activities and anonymous publications, Bruno Bauer tried to escape the
usual fate of the dissident, without leaving an appropriate position, without
sufficient income, and leaving all friends and betraying the insignificance).
The Prussian government had great problems with the Catholics in Cologne, whose
ultramontane archbishop had arrested them in November 1837 and had remained
under house arrest until 1839. The "Rheinische Zeitung" in catholic Cologne was,
according to Austrian agent reports, a sheet supported by the Prussian
government, which was to compete with the Catholic "Kölnische Zeitung" of DuMont,
nowadays publishing the "Kölner
Stadtanzeiger". The main financier was the later Prussian Prime
Minister, Camphausen.
Karl Marx had not yet even published his doctoral thesis and had qualified for
the high-paid post as chief editor only by his success as an informer and agent
against Bruno Bauer. The "Rheinische Zeitung", which represented a
government-critical course on the outside, was editorial, also somewhat
overshadowed by the influence of sympathizers of Bruno Bauer, the control of the
government. Marx dismissed the supporters of Bauer among the employees, and had
sharp articles published in the Rheinische Zeitung against the "Doctorclub" of
Bruno Bauer, who had returned to Berlin.
The ruling circles at that time saw their advantage in the fact that with
Marxism there is very little beginning for all opponents and victims of
capitalist relations. In the nineteenth century a strong resistance to the
impoverishment of the masses through capitalist industrialization, which son
Franz Clouth later became a part of it, developed. Strikes and violent
counter-attacks, as well as the attacks of the anarchists against autocrats,
government members, industrialists and bankers were feared. Since Marx and
Engels took over the ideological leadership of the Communists, the
revolutionaries analyzed peacefully the value form.
The suppression of the anarchists was the most important concern of Marx in the
First International. Their foundation was based on the efforts of Emperor
Napoleon III. (According to the Marxian biography of Mehring, because in France
every attempt by an organization of the workers was still forbidden) by this
International in London to make his bourgeoisie more dependent on his
benevolence. Marx was engaged by exiled French and British in order to sabotage
the First International Workers Association, founded in 1864. In 1872, Marx also
succeeded in moving his seat from London to New York after the French Emperor
had lost the Battle of Sedan in 1870 and in Prussian captivity Had been advised.
The fact that the contemporary representatives of Marxism, known from politics
and science, do not yet want to have a look at the Prussian government minister
Karl Marx and his collaborator Friedrich Engels is simply because these figures
also gain and gained since the 20th century their position at universities and
in political organizations as agents of the system to have.
The Communist International (Comintern)
therefore began their influence via the so later called Frankfurt School,which
was headed by Georg Lukacs, a Hungarian aristocrat, son of one of the
Hapsburg Empire's leading bankers. Trained in Germany and already an important
literary theorist, Lukacs became a Communist during World War I, writing as he
joined the party, "Who will save us from Western civilization?" Lukacs was
well-suited to the Comintern task: he had been one of the Commissars of Culture
during the short-lived Hungarian Soviet in Budapest in 1919; in fact, modern
historians link the shortness of the Budapest experiment to Lukacs' orders
mandating sex education in the schools, easy access to contraception, and the
loosening of divorce laws—all of which revulsed Hungary's Roman Catholic
population
The task of the
Frankfurt School was first, to undermine the Judeo-Christian legacy through an "abolition
of culture" (Aufhebung der Kultur in Lukacs' German) and, second, to
determine new cultural forms which would increase the alienation of the
population, thus creating a "new barbarism." To this task, there gathered
in and around the Frankfurt School an incredible assortment of not only
Communists, but also non-party socialists, radical phenomenologists, Zionists,
renegade Freudians, and at least a few members of a self-identified "cult of
Astarte." The variegated membership reflected, to a certain extent, the
sponsorship: although the Institute for Social Research started with Comintern
support, over the next three decades its sources of funds included various
German and American universities, the Rockefeller Foundation, Columbia
Broadcasting System, the American Jewish Committee, several American
intelligence services, the Office of the U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, the
International Labour Organization, and the Hacker Institute, a posh psychiatric
clinic in Beverly Hills.
Similarly, the
Institute's political allegiances: although top personnel maintained what might
be called a sentimental relationship to the Soviet Union (and there is evidence
that some of them worked for Soviet intelligence into the 1960's), the Institute
saw its goals as higher than that of Russian foreign policy. Stalin, who was
horrified at the undisciplined, "cosmopolitan" operation set up by his
predecessors, cut the Institute off in the late 1920's, forcing Lukacs into "self-criticism"
and briefly jailing him as a German sympathizer during World War II.
Lukacs survived
to briefly take up his old post as Minister of Culture during the anti-Stalinist
Imre Nagy regime in Hungary. Of the other top Institute figures, the political
perambulations of Herbert Marcuse are typical. He started as a Communist; became
a protégé of philosopher Martin Heidegger even as the latter was joining the
Nazi Party; coming to America, he worked for the World War II Office of
Strategic Services (OSS), and later became the U.S. State Department's top
analyst of Soviet policy during the height of the McCarthy period; in the
1960's, he turned again, to become the most important guru of the New Left; and
he ended his days helping to found the environmentalist extremist Green Party in
West Germany. In all this seeming incoherence of shifting positions and
contradictory funding, there is no ideological conflict. The invariant is the
desire of all parties to answer Lukacs' original question: "Who will save us
from Western civilization?"
These are modern colleagues of Marx and Engels in direction to alienation of
christian western states. Quite a few Marxists were even called upon to
university chairs in the United States and England, received the greatest
attention from the media and were celebrated as particularly courageous and
great thinkers. To this end, they help the capital and refuse any discussion
about the monetary policy causes of the economic crises which they wish to
explain with the alleged "tendencial case of the profitees".
Dr.Melis:"Gestern war ich im Archiv (Dr. Melis), um zu
einem ganz anderen Zweck die "Deutsche Londoner Zeitung" durchzusehen.
Plötzlich fand ich in der Nr. 173 vom 21. Juli 1848, S. 5, Sp. 3 eine Notiz
über Wilhelm Clouth. Ich habe die Seite kopiert und sende sie im Anhang zu".
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