http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/04/01.htm
Aeschylus over Aristophones, crazy cat that Marx.
I know the red in the communist flag represents the ‘revolution’, but do you know if it has anything to do with Marx’s favorite color, or is that just a random coincidence?
The irony is unbelievable:
The vice you hate most - Servility
The vice you excuse most - Gullibility
Your idea of happiness - To fight
Your idea of misery - To submit
Your Maxim - Nihil humani a me alienum puto [Nothing human is alien to me] – Terence
A funny and unintended ending:
The character in history you most dislike…Karl Marx
yeah, I got a giggle out of it. Particularly “to fight” and “gullibility”. Nice tag at the end though
I find that a lot of those contrarian types in the 18th and 19th century admired certain warriors, soldiers, or generals from antiquity.
For the Jacobins, the Spartans were the ideal people, and for Marx, it was Spartacus.