Charles Brown wrote:
> In the period when they wrote things like _The Holy Family_ their writing is choked full of humor. Critique of The Critical Critical Critical philosophy or whatever, Saint Max. They have all these joke nicknames for intellectual joke opponents.
Some of you might not know this but, in May-June 1852 (therefore in times of full theoretical maturity), Marx and Engels actualy wrote a farse chastising their rivals in the german political diaspora (after the defeat of the democratic revolutions of 1848-9) Gottfried Kinkel, Willich and Arnold Ruge. It's entitled 'Heroes of the Exile' and you can download it from the Marx-Engels Internet Archive (as I did).
It's tremendously funny. With hindsight, one has to wonder if these guys had nothing better to do with their time. But they most certainly have had the best of times writing this stuff.
João Paulo Monteiro