and the other to Zeppo Marx of the Marx Brothers. The casual observer may be forgiven if they are moved to ask if this is some kind of joke. Absolutely not, says Burt Kearns, author of “Shemp!” ...

This is a reconstruction of the course of evolution of Marx’s and Engels’s ideas on women’s emancipation by Maximilien Rubel (1905-1996). Rubel drafted this article shortly before his death in 1996.

The Marx Brothers are one of the foundational families of film and early Hollywood. Five of their fourteen feature films were selected amongst the top 100 comedy films of all time by the American ...