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The Marxist staycation – Marx and Engels at the Victorian seaside in 1857
KEITH FLETT advises British Marxists to get in the sea
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Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
WITH the government’s chaotic handling of Covid-19 lockdown restrictions, suddenly announcing changes late at night on Twitter, the attractiveness of a summer break in Britain, for those still able to afford it, has more attraction than usual.
The August weather is notoriously unreliable, but for socialists there is a chance to visit some of the locations that Marx and Engels enjoyed in the second half of the 19th century.
Not quite all are by the sea. There are references in the correspondence to Buxton, then a major spa town, and within reach of Manchester, for example.
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