You dont have to worship marx or engels, just because two rich people did a good thing doesnt absolve the rest of rich people even well meaning libs on facebook. I probably wouldnt like them in real life and I recognize that they kind of sucked for being fancy lads.
In my opinion, "doing something" is the bare minimum you can do as a rich leftist, you have all the necessary resources and you squander it to preserve the status quo, have correct opinions on facebook and to have read the right books.
two rich people did a good thing doesnt absolve the rest of rich people even well meaning libs on facebook.
People always highlight how Engels was a member of the bourgeoisie and gloss over the fact that he joined a revolutionary army and almost died in the process. Yes, Engels gets a pass for almost dying in his attempts at putting bullets into the skulls of his fellow bourgeois ghouls.
In 1849, Engels travelled to the Kingdom of Bavaria for the Baden and Palatinate revolutionary uprising, an even more dangerous involvement. Starting with an article called "The Magyar Struggle", written on 8 January 1849, Engels, himself, began a series of reports on the Revolution and War for Independence of the newly founded Hungarian Republic.[62] Engels's articles on the Hungarian Republic became a regular feature in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung under the heading "From the Theatre of War"; however, the newspaper was suppressed during the June 1849 Prussian coup d'état. After the coup, Marx lost his Prussian citizenship, was deported and fled to Paris and then London.[63] Engels stayed in Prussia and took part in an armed uprising in South Germany as an aide-de-camp in the volunteer corps of August Willich.[64][65][66] Engels also brought two cases of rifle cartridges with him when he went to join the uprising in Elberfeld on 10 May 1849.[67] Later when Prussian troops came to Kaiserslautern to suppress an uprising there, Engels joined a group of volunteers under the command of August Willich, who were going to fight the Prussian troops.[68] When the uprising was crushed, Engels was one of the last members of Willich's volunteers to escape by crossing the Swiss border. Marx and others became concerned for Engels's life until they finally heard from him.[69]
That owns that does earn him a pass in my book, even though he seems like a fancy lad piece of shit in all the other areas of his life.
You dont have to worship marx or engels, just because two rich people did a good thing doesnt absolve the rest of rich people even well meaning libs on facebook. I probably wouldnt like them in real life and I recognize that they kind of sucked for being fancy lads.
In my opinion, "doing something" is the bare minimum you can do as a rich leftist, you have all the necessary resources and you squander it to preserve the status quo, have correct opinions on facebook and to have read the right books.
People always highlight how Engels was a member of the bourgeoisie and gloss over the fact that he joined a revolutionary army and almost died in the process. Yes, Engels gets a pass for almost dying in his attempts at putting bullets into the skulls of his fellow bourgeois ghouls.
In 1849, Engels travelled to the Kingdom of Bavaria for the Baden and Palatinate revolutionary uprising, an even more dangerous involvement. Starting with an article called "The Magyar Struggle", written on 8 January 1849, Engels, himself, began a series of reports on the Revolution and War for Independence of the newly founded Hungarian Republic.[62] Engels's articles on the Hungarian Republic became a regular feature in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung under the heading "From the Theatre of War"; however, the newspaper was suppressed during the June 1849 Prussian coup d'état. After the coup, Marx lost his Prussian citizenship, was deported and fled to Paris and then London.[63] Engels stayed in Prussia and took part in an armed uprising in South Germany as an aide-de-camp in the volunteer corps of August Willich.[64][65][66] Engels also brought two cases of rifle cartridges with him when he went to join the uprising in Elberfeld on 10 May 1849.[67] Later when Prussian troops came to Kaiserslautern to suppress an uprising there, Engels joined a group of volunteers under the command of August Willich, who were going to fight the Prussian troops.[68] When the uprising was crushed, Engels was one of the last members of Willich's volunteers to escape by crossing the Swiss border. Marx and others became concerned for Engels's life until they finally heard from him.[69]
That owns that does earn him a pass in my book, even though he seems like a fancy lad piece of shit in all the other areas of his life.