Marx's erupting skin may have influenced writings

Reuters.com ^ | Oct 30, 2007

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This explains soooo much.

[duckbutt]

So...what’s Hillary’s excuse for accepting this drivel?

I know she’s married to a boil.....

[darkwing104]

More proof that Communists are crazy.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Liberals are miserable people.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Probably because the guy never bathed.

[VOA]

So Marx’s real legacy is...
“I’ve got aches and pains, so I’m going to make other people suffer!”

[rellimpank]

—if the S.O.B. hadn’t had Freidrich Engels’ money backing him , he’d have starved to death and never have been heard of-—

[PBRSTREETGANG]

"The bourgeoisie will remember my carbuncles until their dying day," Marx told Friedrich Engels in a letter from 1867.

His carbuncles live on...in the form of Hillary, Fidel, Hugo, Kim Jong-Il...

[domenad]

Is this why commie hippies smell?

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

It prevented him from working.

I guess that explains why he plagiarized so much of his writing from Engels and a couple of others?

[martin_fierro]

"Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state." -- Karl Marx

WARNING: not pretty

[bmwcyle]

Big ankles.

[Jeff Chandler]

"The bourgeoisie will remember my carbuncles until their dying day,"

Hot dog! I have a new tag line.

[billorites]

Workers of the world unite!

[erikm88]

Just be sure there is no shortage... I seem to remember the USSR had some issue with toilet paper... Aaah.. living in a socialist utopia..

[Jeff Chandler]

Marx, who died in 1883, was one of the most influential philosophers of the 19th century and his radical writings formed the basis of [the] modern communism Democrat Party.

[weegee]

There was no such thing as D&D, Star Wars, or internet flamewars in Karl Marx’s day.

Just think of the horrors that could have been averted if there were.

[Clemenza]

Most of Marx’s “original” ideas were merely warmed over Hegel. Don’t get me started on the fact that his only contribution to the Communist Manifesto was to sign his name to it.

[dmz]

Talk about your PC crap turned upside down, Marx’s writings were due to his low self esteem and self loathing, because he felt bad? This is right out of the Lincoln was gay school of journalism. What’s next, Adam Smith had hemorrhoids which led to writing of the Wealth of Nations?

The dermatologist must be right, certainly the industrial revolution, Europe’s feudal traditions, and the Hegelian dialectic had only miniscule influence on Marx.

There were clear historical forces which led to the advent of Marxism/socialism/communism. To minimize them is to leave the door open for their return.

/rant off

[Aquinasfan]

Did the guy ever work? He neglected and abused his family, but had the time to hang out with his buddy Engels and write lengthy screeds about the plight of factory workers —even though he never set foot in a factory.