Minnie Marx Minnie Marx Minnie Marx (born Miene Schönberg, 9 November 1865 or 1864 – 13 September 1929) was the mother and manager of the Marx Brothers, wife of Sam Marx, and the sister of vaudeville star Al Shean. Marx was born Miene Schönberg in Dornum, Germany. Her parents Fanny née Salomons (1829–1898) and Levy "Lafe" Schönberg (1823–1919) were members of the local Jewish community. Her mother was a yodeling harpist, her father a ventriloquist. Her younger brother, Abraham Elieser Adolf, the future "Al Shean", was born in 1868. About 1880 the family emigrated to New York City, where Minnie married Samuel
The Concept of Nature in Marx in Marxist philosophy informed by Schmidt's work in his "Counterrevolution and Revolt" (1972). The political scientist David McLellan describes Schmidt's book as, "an important and well-documented consideration of the importance of Marx's materialism." The Concept of Nature in Marx The Concept of Nature in Marx () is a 1962 book by the philosopher Alfred Schmidt. First published in English in 1971, is a classic account of Karl Marx's ideas about nature. The critic Terry Eagleton summarizes Schmidt as arguing that, according to Marx, "Human beings are part of Nature yet able to stand over against it; and this partial separation