Abstract

Unusual Marx « Peuchet : vom Selbstmord » (1846 is to a large extent composed of – translated – excerpts from Peuchet, a former head of the French police archives under the Restoration. This small and almost forgotten article is, in fact, one of the most powerful indictments of womens' oppression ever published under Marx's signature and a precious contribution to a richer understanding of the evils of modern bourgeois society, of the suffering that its patriarchal family-structure inflicts on women, and of the broad and universal emancipatory scope of socialism