Jenny Laura Marx (September 26, 1845–November 26, 1911, age 66) was the second daughter of Karl Marx and Jenny von Westphalen. In 1868 she married Paul Lafargue. The two committed suicide together.
Laura Marx was born in Brussels. Paul Lafargue was a young French socialist who came to London in 1866 to work for the First International. There he became a friend of Karl Marx and got to know Marx's family, especially Laura Marx, who fell in love wit...
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Jenny Laura Marx (September 26, 1845–November 26, 1911, age 66) was the second daughter of Karl Marx and Jenny von Westphalen. In 1868 she married Paul Lafargue. The two committed suicide together.
Laura Marx was born in Brussels. Paul Lafargue was a young French socialist who came to London in 1866 to work for the First International. There he became a friend of Karl Marx and got to know Marx's family, especially Laura Marx, who fell in love with him.
Paul and Laura married in 1868, and the Lafargues began several decades of political work together, translating Marx's work to French, and spreading Marxism in France and Spain. Most of their lives Laura and Paul Lafargue were financially supported by Friedrich Engels. They also inherited a lot of Engels' money when he died in 1895.
In 1911, the elderly couple committed suicide together, having decided they had nothing left to give to the movement to which they devoted their lives. Paul Lafargue left a suicide note saying:
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