The Price of Loving Karl Marx

dont be ridiculous aslam. Marx may have been unfaithfull but there is no evidence to suggest he took advantage of anyone and boxes full of evidence suggesting Marx had utmost genuine respect for women made clear by his constant and genuine references to the NECCESSITY of EQUALITY btw genders.

Your reference to some random arab sheik and his maid would only be valid if arabs were not amongst the worlds most prominent political and social misogynists who absolutely do treat women and poor people like dogs.

he did not rape her she was 27 years old not some kid. and how is he dishonest if he advocated violence?

Marx was a very dishonest man who advocated violence. The woman he made pregnant was his maid, was it an affair , or took advantage of her , may be even raped her, he was old enough to be her father.

The question is when a sheikh al-araby makes his Filipino or sri lankan maid pregnant, human rights groups and neo Marxists are up in arms.why is there such double standards.

Another great poet and revolutionary was Percy Shelley, he was assasinated at ayoung age his wife also suffered much but still loved him dearly she called him cor cordium; heart of hearts

Jenny was a great woman and like many great woman gave up much for love and duty, see nargis. Engels was a good friend he always helped Marx.

Karl Marx was a great man as was bhagat singh, they lived and died for others allah inko maghfarat ata kare, marhoom main kai khoobiyan theen

Dear Sohail,

You write as if Jenny had to pay a price for something she did not approve. Both may have paid a price for something that both approved (except for Marx's other relationship perhaps). We do not know. What you imply may indeed be true. However, there is no evidence of this being the case in your essay. This kind of writings have become fashionable nowadays because of the over-dose of feminism. I am saddened to see you being swept up in this wave of political correctness.

Marx and Jenny loved each other. (Jenny's father knew Marx from a young age and taught him about liberal writers like Saint Simon). Here is what Marx's daughter writes about the Moor (her father) as Jenny lay dying and he was ill:

"Our dear mother lay in the big front room and the Moor lay in the little room next to it ... Never shall I forget the morning he felt himself strong enough to go into Mother's room. When they were together they were young again - she a young girl and he a loving youth, both on life's threshold, not an old disease-ridden man and an old dying woman parting from each other for life."


Many a mundane middle-class household would give up their "little pink boxes" for such love between husband and wife.