Status Updates From Karl Marx: His Life and Env...

Bit of a slog. But I will finish this book in time. The biographical details are more illuminating than the theoretical ones, but that’s just because I’m dumb. Marx is in London exile living in abject poverty; his children are dying off at a young age; Engels is writing his newspaper articles for him; they are isolated from the Continent.

mi parte favorita de leer este tipo de libros es recopilar las refinadas formas de insultarse que tenían los intelectuales del xviii/xix. Es un interesante fenómeno histórico cómo las agridulces notas de algo como "era un fanático autoritario por partida triple: alemán, hegelian y judío" queda hoy encapsulado en la simple formula "yes un foriaton de la de mi mantu"