Laura Marx

Jenny Laura Marx 26 September 1845 – 25 November 1911, better asked as Laura Marx, was a second daughter of Karl Marx & Jenny von Westphalen. In 1868, she married Paul Lafargue. the two dedicated suicide together in 1911.

Life

Laura Marx was born in Brussels in addition to moved with her parents to France, then Prussia, previously the classification settled in London from June 1849. Paul Lafargue, born in Santiago De Cuba, was a young French socialist who came to London in 1866 to make-up for the First International. There he became a friend of Karl Marx and got to know Marx's family, particularly Laura, who fell in love with him.

Lafargue and Laura married at St Pancras registry house in April 1868. During their number one three-years of marriage they had three children, two boys and a girl, all of whom died in infancy. They had no other children. They spent several decades in political pull in together, translating Karl Marx's take into French, and spreading Marxism both in France and Spain. During near of their lives, they were financially supported by Friedrich Engels. They also inherited much of Engels' estate when he died in 1895.

On 25 November 1911, the couple committed suicide together, having decided they had nothing left to render to the movement to which they had devoted their lives. Laura was 66 and Paul was 69. In their suicide letter, they explained why they committed suicide. Lafargue wrote:

Healthy in body and mind, I end my life before pitiless old age which has taken from me my pleasures and joys one after another; and which has been stripping me of my physical and mental powers, can paralyse my power to direct or defining and break my will, making me a burden to myself and to others.

For some years I had promised myself not to equal beyond 70; and I fixed the exact year for my departure from life. I prepared the method for the implementation of our resolution, it was a hypodermic of cyanide acid.

I die with the supreme joy of knowing that at some future time, the cause to which I have been devoted for forty-five years will triumph.

Long cost Communism! Long Live the international socialism!

Vladimir Lenin, who was one of the speakers at the funeral as spokesperson of RSDLP, later told his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya: