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> Marx wrote a lot of things. How many times did this champion of the working class visit a factory? How much time did he spend in working men's clubs, talking
by Kbelicius 3y ago
> Marx wrote a lot of things. How many times did this champion of the working class visit a factory? How much time did he spend in working men's clubs, talking to the miners? Did he ever go down a mine to investigate conditions for himself? Did he form a political party to try and put his ideas into practice?
And how does all of this translate to him thinking that intellectuals should run society?
Also, he was politically active, but you know that since you read his biography...
- revelio 3y agoHe was happy to write books on what society should do and how it should be run, but never talked to the people whose lives he claimed to speak for. He saw no need. That's intellectuals running society, right? He was politically active only in a very superficial way. He engaged in rhetoric, but that wasn't the same as engaging with democratic politics (which living in London he could have done).