"Love and Capital" -- the love story of Jenny and Karl Marx. Intriguing trivia, while he was railing against the moneyed class, he was being supported by his mother-in-law, the Baroness of Westphalia. Why didn't anyone mention that when I was a political science major?
Yesterday I went to a lecture by friend-of-a-friend who wrote a book about his professor, Senator S.I. Hayakawa. So that book is on tap.
Sounds like most Socialists/Communists. they're never the ones to suffer
Oh, the Marx family suffered -- MIL sent them barely enough to keep body and soul together, so they always lived in poverty, no better off than the low-paid workers in their poor neighborhood. Point was, this was not a book written in his spare time while he was working 14 hours a day in a factory and being abused by the rich owner.
He was actually a part of the moneyed class, who took up the cause of the overworked and underpaid, as a traitor to his class. I can appreciate the guts it takes to call your own family exploiters of the less fortunate, while also appreciating the irony that the champion of the working class wasn't "working".
Co-author Engels was the son of a factory owner who also had the guts to stand up for the rights of the worker against his own family. Engels, at least, worked as a manager in one of the family factories, didn't lounge around the house writing all day while being supported by someone else.
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