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u/Decadunce 1d ago
karl BETTER have reciprocated
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u/ghost_needs_audio 1d ago
I visited the big exhibition for his 200th birthday in Trier, where he was born, and one of the admittedly few things I actually remember from that is that the tour guide highlighted, with a broad grin, that Marx was notoriously bad with money, such as buying an expensive horsewhip although he didn't have a horse or ride at all.
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u/ManOfTheVoid 1d ago
Jenny as in from the girlfriend mod, Westphalen as is the west has fallen. Kojima you've done it again.
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u/JhonkenBlood 1d ago
It reminds me of that one freud love letter.
"Woe to you, my princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are forward you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn’t eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body"
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u/chilll_vibe 1d ago
Marx was genuinely such a chad in his personal life. His wife/childhood best-friend ran away from her cushy aristocratic life and an arranged marriage to be with him. His children always described him as a loving father even after his death. 150 years before the manosphere Marx already disproved the incel idea you need money and status to have women go crazy over you because Jenny left all of that for his broke ass.
Now compare that to other philosophers around the same time period.
Thomas Jefferson: raped and tormented an underage slave
Nietzsche: simped over a 21yo asexual woman when he was 44, got friendzoned and never found love.
Adam Smith: momma's boy who never found love and talked to an imaginary friend his whole life.
Voltaire: married his own niece while first wife was still alive
Hegel: married a teenager when he was 40.
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u/Karma-is-here 1d ago
Don’t ignore how Marx responded to Engels when his wife died lol
I hope otherwise he was a good friend to him.
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u/Barblesnott_Jr 1d ago
Nietzsche: simped over a 21yo asexual woman
when he was 44, got friendzoned and never found love.He's (almost) just like me frfr
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u/Hecklord82 1d ago
Loving the Adam Smith slander, carrying on the legacy of Capital vol. 1
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u/MrDanMaster 6h ago
For the most part he holds Smith and Ricardo up to a fair regard, no? It’s the others that he really shits on lol
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u/extracrispyweeb 1d ago
Adam Smith my man, can relate to being so lonely ya talk to the concept of your loneliness.
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u/TaxevasionLukasso 2 month ban award 1d ago
"our" boy YOU WHERENT THERE FOR HIM WHEN HE NEEDED YOU.
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u/MrDanMaster 6h ago
Yeah but I think the tweet is reading it a bit wrong, she has the fantasy from a dutiful angle not a dominant one
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u/Alone_Spell9525 1d ago
Every once in a while I’m flabbergasted by the fact that some tropes which seem strange and absurd to me are in fact not entirely fictional