Resumen de Transatlantic Conversations: Observations on Marx and Engels� Journalism and Beyond

Heinz D. Kurz

• The paper discusses the activities of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as journalists. The focus of attention is on their lead articles written for the New York Tribune in the period 1851�1862. Important themes of the articles include the role of slavery for the development of US capitalism, the latter's characteristic features as compared with British capitalism, which for some time they considered the paragon of capitalist development, and some of the reasons why Marx failed to complete volumes II and III of Capital.