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Though I am currently unable to find a record of the particular incident I mentioned,
Because it doesn't exist.
I did come across even more damning evidence of Karl Marx blatant hypocricy.
Marx lived on an allowance made to him by Friedrich Engels. Engels made his vast wealth as a mill owner. Marx therefore lived on the backs of the poorly paid workers in Engels sweat shops.
As do you, and as do I. My cultural riches originate from surplus value imported from the periphery. See Zak cope (2012) for an assessment of how capitalism has functioned in the centre. This being the export, pre-monopolistic era, of course. Unless you propose that Marx should have just been left to wither away in chronic poverty and not contribute anything of substantial worth.
But let's take your point at face value. How does this invalidate his theoretical contributions? Can you extemporise about aufheben? Can you talk about the distinction between the modes and means of production? Can you talk about the inherent antinomies of the acceleration of the productive forces? Can you speak of the negation of the revolutionary event and its negation? No. Thought not. How do you propose to replace the contradiction between surplus value and capital? Underconsumption? Tendency of the rate of profit to fall? Unequal exchange?
Marx had a privileged background, and never personally knew any working class people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workingmen%27s_AssociationOh, come off it now. You honestly think Marx had no correspondences with the paris commune? You think him and Engels had nothing to say about its downfall?
The one exception to this was his maid, Helen Demuth, who he sexually abused. Demuth became pregnant and bore Marx a son, though he refused to accept responsibility for the child.
He was abusive and disloyal to his wife, and had the most terrible temper. Marx also enjoyed the sport of making uneducated working class people look stupid, and was known to be a mean and abusive man.
I feel sure that if I dig around long enough, I will come across the incident I mentioned in a previous post. It was something I read in college, though I have no idea of the source.
Kind Regards,
Stephen.
None of this is remotely true. There is no decisive/conclusive evidence from the time to suggest the boy was indeed Marx's son, (see Cambridge companion to Marx, 1991) and Karl and Jenny Marx's amicable relationship has been well documented.
Marx was somewhat arrogant and polemically ferocious in the delivery of his points, I'll concede, but you need to remember that he was a man of his time, not someone who'd grown up during the post-war era. Anyone who claims Marx should have been an inerrant God (like yourself) is taking a thoroughly unmaterialistic and wholly metaphysical position.
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