Karl Marx: His Life and Thought by David McClellanAn excerpt from the book "Karl Marx: His Life and Thought" by David McClellan which gives the reader insight into the personl life of Marx.KARL MARX: HIS LIFE AND THOUGHT. BY DAVID McLellan, New York: Harper & Row, 1974.
About the book: Half the world's population lives under political systems that claim their inspiration from Karl Marx. For someone so influential, it is surprising that so little has been known of his private life and that his ideas were so misunderstood. McLellan's balanced and comprehensive biography presents for the 1st time a full picture of Marx.
From the book: Here is Karl Marx's own account of himself as he gave it playing the Victorian parlor game of "Confessions."
Marx's Confession Your favorite virtue Simplicity Your favorite virtue in man Strength Your favorite virtue in woman Weakness Your chief characteristic Singleness of purpose Your idea of happiness To fight Your idea of misery Submission The vice you excuse most Gullibility The vice you detest most Servility Your aversion Martin Tupper (Victorian popular writer) Favorite occupation Bookworming Favorite poet Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Goethe Favorite prose-writer Diderot Favorite hero Spartacus, Kepler Favorite heroine Gretchen Favorite flower Daphne Favorite color Red Favorite name Laura, Jenny Favorite dish Fish Favorite maxim Nihil humani a me alienum puto ("I consider that nothing human is alien to me.") Favorite motto De omnibus dubitandum ("You must have doubts about everything.") | ||
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