According to marxists.org:
“Confessions” were semi-jocular questionaires that were very popular in Victorian England, and filling them out a common passtime in many families, including Marx's, where friends and relatives participated.
Your favourite virtue … Simplicity
Your favourite virtue in man … Strength
Your favourite virtue in woman … Weakness
Your chief characteristic … Singleness of purpose
Your idea of happiness … To fight
Your idea of misery … Submission
The vice you excuse most … Gullibility
The vice you detest most … Servility
Your aversion … Martin Tupper
Favourite occupation … Book-worming
Favourite poet … Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Goethe
Favourite prose-writer … Diderot
Favourite hero … Spartacus, Kepler
Favourite heroine … Gretchen [Heroine of Goethe's Faust]
Favourite flower … Daphne
Favourite colour … Red
Favourite name … Laura, Jenny
Favourite dish … Fish
Favourite maxim … Nihil humani a me alienum puto [Nothing human is alien to me, (Terence)]
Favourite motto … De omnibus dubitandum [Everything must be doubted].
Some cool/interesting answers in there. I like getting a glimpse at the personalities behind the theoretical works. There is the somewhat “yikes” answer of favourite characteristic of a woman being “weakness” in there, sorry Karl you posted cringe :cringe:
I like that his favourite colour was red :mao-aggro-shining: and it’s cute that he answered “favourite names” with his daughters names.
yeah that stuck out to me too— I wonder if this was through a translator and what word he used in the original Russian
I think "anarchy in production" is a concept taken from Engels' Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, and has nothing to do with the ideology of anarchism?
Been a while since I read it, so I could be remembering wrong.
thanks, it's the first line!
Lol, good to know my brain isn't completely mush. Yet.
Someone needs to tell that translator this isn't what we mean when we say we want to make Stalin look like an anarchist.