Marx Brothers Minnie helped her younger brother Abraham Elieser Adolf Schönberg (stage name Al Shean) to enter show business; he became highly successful on vaudeville and Broadway as half of the musical comedy double act Gallagher and Shean, and this gave the brothers an entree to musical comedy, vaudeville and Broadway at Minnie's instigation. Minnie also acted as the brothers' manager, using the name Minnie Palmer so that agents did not realize that she was also their mother. All the brothers confirmed that Minnie Marx had been the head of the family and the driving force in getting the troupe launched, the
Specters of Marx Specters of Marx Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International () is a 1993 book by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. It was first presented as a series of lectures during “Whither Marxism?”, a conference on the future of Marxism held at the University of California, Riverside in 1993. The title "Spectres of Marx" is an allusion to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' statement at the beginning of "The Communist Manifesto" that a "spectre [is] haunting Europe." For Derrida, the spirit of Marx is even more relevant now since the fall