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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19870306
Author:Raymond M. Lane
RED JENNY
A Life with Karl Marx
By H.F. Peters
St. Martins. 182 pp. $14.95
ROSA LUXEMBURG
A Life
By Elzbieta Ettinger
Beacon Press. 286 pp. $24.95
They look so benign, these women of the last century, with their old-fashioned clothes and hair. The old photographs hardly suggest the price they paid for their work, much less the passion and rigor of their strife-torn years. We moderns may be fooled into thinking of Jenny Marx and Rosa Luxemburg as merely quaint-antique women of little consequence as the century nears its end.
Now come two slim biographies that help counteract such ...
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