reparations & exploitation

[Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema]

In fact Marx' only direct descendants are from his relationship with Helene
Demuth (whose name, ironically, means "humility"). It's interesting to read
the history of the Marx family. They lived quite bourgeois lives to the extent
their means allowed. In fact, some of the financial stringency they
experienced came out of spending their money on things that served to keep up
middle-class appearances and find proper husbands for the daughters. Somewhere
in the correspondence Marx says something about how it wouldn't do to adopt a
proletarian lifestyle. Our notions of the leftist intellectual with a bohemian
approach to personal life came later. Only Eleanor, the youngest daughter
lived long enough to get into something like that. You can see in terms of
personal life how, at the time, the workers' movement was an offshoot of the
bourgeois democratic movement.
Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema

qualiall_2 at yahoo.com wrote:


> > Men as a group don't benefit from having full-time unpaid >housekeepers,
> > etc?
>
> I should remind everyone that Karl Marx himself had a housekeeper..If I
> remember correctly, he got her knocked up too..poor Freddie had to raise
> the child as his own... >o)
>
> KRD