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MARX IN AMSTERDAM Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels , leaders of the Marxist faction, went to Amsterdam after the congress and had a speech there. There were only a few hundred socialists in the Netherlands . A hundred of them listened to the speech of Marx, but they were not interrested. All hundred went upstairs with anarchists who entered the room with a few hundred supporters. Marx and Engels were left alone in the room with nobody left to listen to their speeches, so they left. Hendrik Gerhard , leader of the socialists in Amsterdam visited Marx in his hotel. He angrily told the other socialists later on that he was treated by Marx like a gentleman treats his porter. He couldn't understand why Marx needed the 800 pages of '' Das Kapital '' to prove that the surplus of the work of a worker goes to the priviliged classes. It could also be said in one sentence. It took until 1894, before the marxists got their own organization in the Netherlands. |
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