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.