[lbo-talk] Not A Very Nice Man ( Was Re: Marx was no liberal; didn'tsuffer fools gladly)

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Apr 4 11:05:01 PDT 2007


andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
> I said that Marx he had a bad temper and a bitter
> tongue, and that he used polemic as a political tool.
> Rakesh construes these obviously true facts, denied by
> no one one who knew Marx and obvious to any of his
> readers,

He wasn't very nice to his illegitimate son -- but his daughter Eleanor richly made up for that by her own treatment of her half-brother. Eleanor strikes me as the finest human of the Marx clan.

Carrol



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