The Communist Manifesto was an interesting read. It’s hard to take any of it seriously, however, knowing about the life of Karl Marx and the effects of communism and similar ideologies. Karl Marx had 7 children, half that died of starvation very young. It isn’t hard to see what caused these children to die, as Marx had never worked a day in his life. He was a fanatic who greatly sacrificed his own health and that of his family to write, while depending heavily on Friedrich Engels’s money. Considering this, and then reading his most famous work, it’s hard to not think of the question “What would he know about the grievances of the working class?’ Not ironically, just as Marx was responsible for the starvation and death of half of his children,
