What I'm reading

"Love and Capital" -- the love story of Jenny and Karl Marx. Intriguing
trivia, while he was railing against the moneyed class, he was being
supported by his mother-in-law, the Baroness of Westphalia. Why didn't
anyone mention that when I was a political science major?

Yesterday I went to a lecture by friend-of-a-friend who wrote a book
about his professor, Senator S.I. Hayakawa. So that book is on tap.


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Karen C - California
Editor/Proofreader/Translator www.IntlProofingConsortium.com

Finished 12/1/12 - crocheted baby blanket, hat, sweater and skirt

WIP: Stitchers Days of Christmas
http://www.crossstitchjoy.com/catalo...oducts_id=3865
Nativity from "Countdown to Christmas" book, Oriental Kimono (Janlynn),
MLI The Teacher (gift to the library), Bethany Angel (Marbek)
Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel, MLI Farmers Market

www.CFSfacts.org -- where we give you the facts and dispel the myths
Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf

On 2/14/13 1:46 PM, Karen C wrote:
"Love and Capital" -- the love story of Jenny and Karl Marx. Intriguing
trivia, while he was railing against the moneyed class, he was being
supported by his mother-in-law, the Baroness of Westphalia. Why didn't
anyone mention that when I was a political science major?

Yesterday I went to a lecture by friend-of-a-friend who wrote a book
about his professor, Senator S.I. Hayakawa. So that book is on tap.




Sounds like most Socialists/Communists. they're never the ones to suffer

Cheryl Isaak wrote:
On 2/14/13 1:46 PM, Karen C wrote:

"Love and Capital" -- the love story of Jenny and Karl Marx. Intriguing
trivia, while he was railing against the moneyed class, he was being
supported by his mother-in-law, the Baroness of Westphalia. Why didn't
anyone mention that when I was a political science major?


Sounds like most Socialists/Communists. they're never the ones to suffer



Oh, the Marx family suffered -- MIL sent them barely enough to keep body
and soul together, so they always lived in poverty, no better off than
the low-paid workers in their poor neighborhood. Point was, this was
not a book written in his spare time while he was working 14 hours a day
in a factory and being abused by the rich owner.

He was actually a part of the moneyed class, who took up the cause of
the overworked and underpaid, as a traitor to his class. I can
appreciate the guts it takes to call your own family exploiters of the
less fortunate, while also appreciating the irony that the champion of
the working class wasn't "working".

Co-author Engels was the son of a factory owner who also had the guts to
stand up for the rights of the worker against his own family. Engels,
at least, worked as a manager in one of the family factories, didn't
lounge around the house writing all day while being supported by someone
else.


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Karen C - California
Editor/Proofreader/Translator www.IntlProofingConsortium.com

Finished 12/1/12 - crocheted baby blanket, hat, sweater and skirt

WIP: Stitchers Days of Christmas
http://www.crossstitchjoy.com/catalo...oducts_id=3865
Nativity from "Countdown to Christmas" book, Oriental Kimono (Janlynn),
MLI The Teacher (gift to the library), Bethany Angel (Marbek)
Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel, MLI Farmers Market

www.CFSfacts.org -- where we give you the facts and dispel the myths
Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf