Apparently he also loathed the working class. It's said that he only ever met a working class person once - a factory worker- and was disgusted by the experience.
His entire ideology was just a tool to deceptively recruit the peasants to put his camp in power. The proof is in the results: The communist revolutions succeeded only in replacing one group of ruling depots with another. And the peasants remained poor.
Yeah; Engels tried ardently to get him to visit a warehouse. Marx was too busy literally shitting his pants, raping Grechen (his indentured servant who bore him an illegitimate son), and bankrupting his noble wife (who was well-connected).
Apparently he also loathed the working class. It's said that he only ever met a working class person once - a factory worker- and was disgusted by the experience.
His entire ideology was just a tool to deceptively recruit the peasants to put his camp in power. The proof is in the results: The communist revolutions succeeded only in replacing one group of ruling depots with another. And the peasants remained poor.
Yeah; Engels tried ardently to get him to visit a warehouse. Marx was too busy literally shitting his pants, raping Grechen (his indentured servant who bore him an illegitimate son), and bankrupting his noble wife (who was well-connected).
A phenomenon as old as the left, vividly described by Orwell in the The Road to Wigan Pier.