Sam Shuster, professor of dermatology at the University of East Anglia, believes the revolutionary thinker had hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) in which the apocrine sweat glands — found mainly in the armpits and groin — become blocked and inflamed.
"In addition to reducing his ability to work, which contributed to his depressing poverty..."
Gee, it turns out that Marx was a poor man and wanted to take what those people who _worked_ for a living had for himself.
2007-10-30 09:10:28 · 15 answers · asked by credo quia est absurdum 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I hate it when my groin gets blocked and inflamed.
;-o
2007-10-30 09:18:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
No Marx wasn't poor. He was one of the most influential political thinkers of the last century and is still relevant today. Without Marx there would be no payed holiday,no American new deal and no 40 hour work week. Capitalism gave some things up out of fear for Marxism which they currently are working hard to take back but that's not the point. Marx changed the world, also in America and Westren Europe. The Stalinist countries from the moment Stalin took over had nothing to do anymore with the theories of Marx.
2007-10-30 16:28:28 · answer #2 · answered by justgoodfolk 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Read Engels about the State of the Working Class in England.
Perhaps a more practical approach to what needed a change.
Most US-american cliches here about socialism are just silly.
2007-10-30 16:24:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
That is just absurd. It would be just as easy to say Hitler's hatred of the Jews was brought about through being constantly tired due to anaemia as he was a vegetarian.
And how very like a conservative - those with a debilitating illness DESERVE to be poor and get no help whatsoever.
2007-10-30 16:22:42 · answer #4 · answered by Mordent 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I doubt if you or any of Marx's other critics on Y!Answers have the ability or the concentration level to read Das Kapital much less comprehend it.
2007-10-30 16:25:06 · answer #5 · answered by wyldfyr 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
the ruinious oppression of the ruling class in the West led to increasing gap between the classes which, Marx and exile in England, capitalized on in order to write propaganda that whould help pay his pub tabs and his dart gambling debts, he was a horroble cricket player.....
2007-10-30 16:17:16 · answer #6 · answered by SABU_HSG 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Marx was a man who saw the plight of the worker and in a stupor came up with his plan. Not unlike GWB.
2007-10-30 16:29:54 · answer #7 · answered by Mogollon Dude 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Frankly, I think clogged glands and repression would explain a lot about the way socialists in general think.
2007-10-30 16:16:21 · answer #8 · answered by cornbread_oracle 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
He should have smoked the herb. THC would have made him much more meticulous and therefore precise in his writing so we wouldn't have to struggle with this issue on Yahoo Answers today.
2007-10-30 16:15:16 · answer #9 · answered by subprimelendor 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
wanting everyone to be equal, wanting no one to be hungry or poor is not related to gland problems - im no doctor though
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2007-10-30 16:14:11 · answer #10 · answered by Antoni 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋