KARL MARX WAS COVERED WITH CARBUNCLES AND BOILS

We know he was covered with carbuncles and furuncles and boils because he complained about them in letters.

He was 46 when he first began to complain. They were painful, and large, and at times a doctor had to lance one and drain it. In describing one such operation, he said the size of the boil was as big as his wife's fist.

A study of online sites about carbuncles and furuncles gives the most probable cause of his ailment.

Poverty. 

Four of his children died from the poverty they lived in. Mainly from starvation, which left them vulnerable to other infections.

Poor nutrition and poor hygiene are both factors in developing carbuncles and furuncles.

At times, Marx wrote he was covered head to toe in the eruptions. He also wrote about having them on his backside and his most private parts. 

Once they began, it seems he suffered from them for the rest of his life, at some times more painfully than others.

Some doctors, long after his death,  determined he was suffering from Hidradenitis Suppurativa, a disease of the sweat glands found in the armpits and groin.

After reading about that disease, it seems unlikely. His outbreaks were much more extensive than that. From head to toe.

It was reported he was still covered with furuncles, carbuncles and boils when he died.

Karl Marx did not die a famous or admired man. In fact, there were only eleven mourners at his funeral. One daughter, Eleanor. Two sons-in-law, Charles Longuet and Paul Lafargue. And eight friends: Leonard Church, Friedrich Engels, Ray Lankester, Friedrich Lessner, G.Lochner, Wilhelm Liebknecht, Sir John Noe and Carl Schorlemmer.

Years earlier, when his own mother had died, Marx wrote to tell his friend Engel about it, saying, in so many words, better her than me. Then he went on to write about collecting his inheritance.

Karl Marx enjoyed receiving inheritances. When his wife's uncle died, he wrote to tell Engels, saying, 'yesterday we were informed of a very happy event, the death of my wife's uncle, aged ninety'.  He knew his wife would inherit some money from this uncle.

Karl Marx is so yesterday. If today's Marxists actually read his writings, they'd go find some other 'ism' to latch on to.

Here's just one example of the mind of Marx, something he wrote about Ferdinand Lasalle in still another letter to Engels.

"Now this blend of Jewishness and Germanness, on the one hand, and basic negroid stock on the other, must invariably give rise to a peculiar product. The fellow's importunity is also niggerlike".

Would someone please inform the President of this statement before he hangs Karl Marx on his Christmas tree again.

Marx was born to Jewish parents, but they converted to Christianity and had him baptized when he was six years old. It didn't take. He considered himself an athiest, though the rest of the world has always considered him an ordinary Communist anti-Semite.

Paul Lafargue, married to Marx' daughter, was an admirer of Marx and a revolutionary. He wrote a popular pamphlet titled: The Right to be Lazy.

He understood.

Maybe the pamphlet was a justification for Karl Marx life.

From each according to his ability - Engels was a wealthy man...

To each according to his need - Engels sent money to support Marx and his family so Marx wouldn't have to get a job.

Marx believed that Capitalism must be overthrown for Socialism, and with Socialism would come a 'Dictatorship of the proletariot'. After that would be Communisn, a classless society where everyone and everything is equal.

Bring it on! We all get to do only what we want to do, with the right to be lazy.

Just answer one question:  Who will collect the garbage?