The Neue Rheinische Zeitung (“New Rhenish Gazette”) was the name of a German daily newspaper published by Karl Marx with Cologne between 1848 and 1849, and of a monthly review published by Marx with London in 1850.
It is also the name of a founded German online news in 2005.
History
Its name refers to a preceding publication, the Rheinische Zeitung (Rhenish Gazette), founded on January 1st 1842 with Cologne by radical middle-class men, close to Hégéliens of left. This newspaper had a radical democratic leading line and reformist, and offered a platform to the hostile intellectuals with the authoritarianism of the Prussian State . Marx collaborated starting from May 5th, 1842 and was named in it editor association in October, and the line of the newspaper becomes more and more revolutionist. It became acquainted there with Engels. The newspaper was prohibited on March 31st 1843.Marx settles with Paris. Its expulsion in 1845 leads it to Brussels. To spring 1847, Marx and Engels adhere to an clandestine organization, the Ligue of the Communists. In 1848, Marx and Engels write the Manifeste of the Communist party , which is published right before the Révolution of February.
After the bursting of the middle-class Revolution in France (Revolution of February) and States of the German league (Revolution of Mars), Marx leaves the Belgium (under the blow of an expulsion) for Paris then Germany in April 1848, where it founds the Neue Rheinische Zeitung , intended to represent the point of view of the proletariat in the popular movements of 1848.
The Neue Rheinische Zeitung, Organ der Democratie (body of the democracy), published in Cologne, which formed then part of Prussia (province of the Rhine), started its publication June 1st 1848, practically without any financial resource. The newspaper treated sociopolitic and international questions.
The leading team was composed of Karl Marx, editor association, like Heinrich Bürgers, Ernst Dronke, Friedrich Engels, Georg Weerth, Ferdinand Wolf and Wilhelm Wolf, all members of the Ligue of the Communists. Friedrich Engels collaborated in the newspaper as writer by writing essential articles.
Throughout the life of the newspaper, the editors were threatened of legal proceedings and expulsion because of their nonPrussian nationality. Marx compared twice in front of justice, on February 7th, 1849, because of a 8 and violation of the press laws, for incentive with the resistance armed against the government. He was discharged each time.
Pulling reaches 5000 copies in September 1848, when the state of siege of Cologne stops the publication. It begins again mid-October. Ferdinand Freiligrath joined the newspaper.
Marx and Engels use this newspaper to publish their analysis on sharp events of June 1848 in France (Révolution of June), thus of the revolutionary episodes in Europe, in particular in Germany. Major texts appear in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung , like paid Travail and Capital in April 1849.
301 numbers will be published between June 1848 and May 19th 1849, date on which the newspaper is closed by the authorities, whereas Cologne is again in state of siege. There are then 6000 subscribers. The last words of the newspaper (printed papers form to red ink) are intended to the workers of Cologne: “emancipation of the working class! ”
Marx takes refuge with Paris, then in London after the manifestation of June 13rd, 1849, where it settles definitively.
Starting from 1850, Marx founds a monthly review of the same name, the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (Politisch-ökonomische Revue) (re-examined economic and political) with Hamburg. The intention of Marx is to continue political and theoretical work newspaper of Cologne. Its publication starts in London in March 1850. 6 number will leave.
In this review the Class struggles in France will appear (n°1-4), where Marx analyzes a posteriori the events of 1848, and the war of the German peasants (Engels, 1850, n°5-6).
After the experiment of the Review, Marx is devoted to the systematic study of the economic structure of the company.
A newspaper in electronic version of the name of Neue Rheinische Zeitung was created by the journalist and scenario writer Peter Kleinert in 2005.
External bonds
- Files of '' the New Rhenish Gazette '' of Marx and French Engels
- official Web site of the current newspaper
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