He also:

• wrote Christian poetry in his youth
• wrote Satanist poetry in his maturity
• had an illegitimate son by his housemaid (while writing about how unfair it is that “proletarian women are at the service of the bourgeois”)
• bragged to Engles about his good luck of having an uncle and his mother die, because he could get their inheritances
• wrote that Jews were “cancer” to be “eliminated”
• wrote that “Beating is the only means of resurrecting the Germans […] Germans, Chinese, and Jews have to be compared with peddlers and small merchants.”
• wrote of Russians, Czechs, Croats, and Slavic people in general: ”These retrograde races […] have the immediate task of perishing in the revolutionary world storm. […] The coming world war will cause not only reactionary classes and dynasties, but entire reactionary peoples, to disappear from the face of the earth. And that will be progress. […] Their very name will vanish.”
• was a big fan of slavery, writing: “Without slavery, North America, the most progressive of countries, would be transformed into a patriarchal country. Wipe North America from the map of the world and you will have anarchy-the complete decay of modern commerce and civilization. Abolish slavery and you will have wiped America off the map of nations.”

There is no creature in the world dumber than an admirer of this quack and his philosophy.

IT GOT BETTER ;)

I didn’t know Engels was rich and he depended on him like that :O

When I was studying philosophy we were learning about the syllogisms and one of the examples for a fallacy was something that went like “saying that Marx cheated on his wife is not a valid reason to dismiss his theories”. Now, I’m like, yeah it is when he cheated on her with his housemaid while writing about the “power to the oppressed”

If I become a world famous history changing philosopher, and something like this is made about me, I hope it goes something like this, “and worst of all he would spend hours a day reblogging cute pictures of kitties…”.