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.
That was cool as fuck. Stalin comes off as a much smarter there then he is often portrayed.
:100-com:, I had always believed the “Lenin/Trotsky were smart, Stalin was just a strongman” narrative, but after reading Stalin’s work over the last few years it’s clear he was just an intelligent as any other Bolshevik. His book on dialectical materialism is great.