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].
-Marx's replies to a set of questions given to him by his daughters Jenny and Laura in 1865
Also Marx: "Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be measured precisely by the social position of the fair sex (plain ones included)."
Parker Jones
based
Hudson Jenkins
Always appreciated how Marx explicitly stood up for the ugly chicks
Jackson Rodriguez
Honestly these are pretty generic answers. I can easily imagine these answers been given by a standard Marxist YouTuber in a Q and A except the Latin proverbs and the "weakness" answer for women. I don't think he put much thought into it.
Tyler Morgan
Fuck…
Gavin Morales
lmao
Luis Walker
Most of the answers don't really tell you much but that and the answer "To fight" really highlight his turboautistic obsession with his own self-assigned mission that modern socialism lacks.
It's weird how all the manly high-T guys of Victorian times were mostly socialist (tell me you didn't have to be alpha as fuck to work in a 1800s coal mine) but now all the "alphas" are just capitalist who support the current US government. What happened in that time? To a degree I kinda blame military culture personally.
Christian Smith
commodity fetishism got several hundred times worse. today being "alpha" in America means being able to afford ridiculously expensive brands and gadgets.
I guess that's the best explanation. What's the best way to combat this than? At least point everyone seems to just stamp collect certain items (shoes, books, games, etc)
Eli Brown
people who collect shoes are definitely high up on the list
Xavier Ramirez
*to be gulagged
Noah Barnes
In my experience it's mostly working class black kids, I think the producers and advertisers for those shoes are far higher on that list.
Henry Nelson
The ideal "alpha" of Victorian times was NOT coal miners or lumberjacks or whatever, and the "alpha" of our times is any financially stable ideological conformist that looks like one of a few Hollywood approved male archetypes, which usually means some nostalgic appropriation of the laborer aesthetic of earlier generations. The Victorian "alphas" were haughty educated gentlemen living in manor houses with soft hands and maids. No one at the time saw laborers as the masculine ideal, they saw them as filthy uncultured plebs.
