Between April 1850 and December 1850, Macfarlane wrote three essays for George Julian Harney's monthly, the Democratic Review and ten articles for his weekly paper, The Red Republican.
14 Facts About Helen Macfarlane
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Which makes me wonder if Helen Macfarlane drank in her radical politics from her mother's milk.
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In 1842 the Helen Macfarlane mills went under, engulfed by the rising tide of technology-driven competition between Scottish millowners.
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Helen Macfarlane began to write for the presses of George Julian Harney, and associated herself with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
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Surprisingly for a "Marxist", perhaps, Helen Macfarlane found common ground between Christ and Communism:.
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In calling for the organizational unity of the forces of "social propaganda" and "democratic agitation", Helen Macfarlane saw Chartist organizational practice as ineffectual when compared to that of the French Blanquists:.
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Helen Macfarlane's contributor Howard Morton is a man of intelligence and shrewdness.
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Helen Macfarlane fell out with her editor Harney at the end of 1850, The occasion was a New Year's banquet, organised by Harney at the Literary and Scientific Institute, near Fitzroy Square in London, attended by Chartists and numerous exiled European revolutionaries, including Karl and Jenny Marx and Engels.
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In 1852 Helen Macfarlane married Francis Proust and in 1853 gave birth to a daughter who they named Consuela Pauline Roland Proust.
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Helen Macfarlane did not enjoy her quiet life for very long, however.
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Helen Macfarlane is buried in the churchyard of St Michael's.
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Helen Macfarlane, who fulminated in her writings against the Anglican church, died in its embrace.
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Helen Macfarlane's writings show an acute knowledge of Chartist affairs and international politics, written in a punchy, at times knockabout style, expressive of proletarian anger.
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Helen Macfarlane's writings are full of literary references and show not only a thorough grasp of what was about to become known as Marxism, but a familiarity with what later Marxists, such as Althusser, tried to "drive back into the night", namely the Hegelian dialectic.