Edgar Marcel Longuet (18 August 1879 – 12 December 1950), was a French physician and socialist activist, and a grandson of
Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 ...
.
Life
Longuet was born in Ramsgate, UK, a son of Charles Longuet and Jenny Caroline Marx, the daughter of Karl Marx. His nickname, "Wolf" was given to him as a small child and referred to his craving for food. The family moved to France when Edgar was 18 months old, this becoming his home.
He was active in the French labor movement and in 1905 joined the Socialist Party, being a supporter of
Jules Guesde
Jules Bazile, known as Jules Guesde (; 11 November 1845 – 28 July 1922) was a French socialist journalist and politician.
Guesde was the inspiration for a famous quotation by Karl Marx. Shortly before Marx died in 1883, he wrote a letter ...
. He left the Socialists in 1937, and in 1938 became a member of
French Communist Party
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, in which he was an active figure. Politically, he was a stalwart Stalinist and admired the
Soviet Union
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Central Committee of the CPSU
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in
Moscow
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that depicted his grandfather Karl Marx with daughters Jenny (Longuet's mother),
Eleanor
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The name was introd ...
Alfortville
Alfortville () is a commune in the Val-de-Marne department in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris.
History
The commune of Alfortville was created on 1 April 1885 from part of the commune of Maisons ...
, a suburb of
Paris
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.Angelika Limmroth: Jenny Marx. The Biography, Berlin 2014, p. 265. He worked as a doctor, practicing until shortly before his death in 1950.
Edgar Longuet was the father of the painter Frédéric Longuet and the politician Paul Longuet. His brother
Jean
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was also an active socialist, and a member of the French Chamber of Deputies.
Works
* '' Some pages of the family life of Karl Marx''. In: ''Mohr and General. Memories of Marx and Engels''. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1964, pp. 359–374