Comments on: Karl Marx: The Pre-Beard Years

By: pietr

pietr — Mon, 28 May 2007 19:21:02 +0000

Which one was the silent Marx Brother?
Perhaps he should be portrayed with a slide whistle and given no dialogue.

By: Xboy

Xboy — Mon, 28 May 2007 12:31:02 +0000

rea: that first photo looks more like Ulysses S Grant wearing a yarmulke.

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links for 2007-05-27 < Travelers Diagram — Sun, 27 May 2007 22:19:09 +0000

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PoliBlog ™: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts » Karl Marx: The Movie — Sat, 26 May 2007 16:05:34 +0000

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By: Steven Taylor

Steven Taylor — Sat, 26 May 2007 16:03:42 +0000

The beard was clearly grown to cover a horribly disfiguring accident that the young Von Marx experienced whilst trying to derive superpowers from the netherworld.

By: Eric H

Eric H — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:56:26 +0000

Will they build the Hollywoodesqueness by including a heretofore unknown rivalry between Marx and Lasalle for the hand of a fair maiden?

Alas, but Oliver Stone is not directing.

By: rea

rea — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:50:02 +0000

A Google image search for “young ‘Karl Marx’” reveals this picture, dated 1839:

http://faculty.frostburg.edu/phil/forum/Marxalt.gif

Note the beard.

Image of a pre-beard version of the man:

http://www.malaspina.com/jpg/marx.jpg

Further research is necessary for a definite settlement of the all-important question of when Karl Marx first grew his beard . . .

By: Glorious Godfrey

Glorious Godfrey — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:40:54 +0000

#23 pwns the thread.

By: ajay

ajay — Fri, 25 May 2007 10:27:32 +0000

For entirely British joke reasons I am hoping for a superhero teamup with Herbert Spencer. (Marx trivia: they are buried opposite each other in Highgate Cemetery.)

By: ajay

ajay — Fri, 25 May 2007 10:22:20 +0000

23: outstanding. Well played, that man.

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Fri, 25 May 2007 02:01:29 +0000

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By: Henry (not the famous one)

Henry (not the famous one) — Fri, 25 May 2007 00:39:37 +0000

The sequel will not be weepy; it must, by historical necessity, be farce.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 24 May 2007 21:33:23 +0000

Suddenly, he finds himself inside Emily Bronte

I guess the ‘other Hollywood’ spinoffs are just as inevitable as the superhero plots – “Karl’s Klub and the Kommunity of women: 14”

By: D

Thu, 24 May 2007 19:46:28 +0000

HEGEL: (in the light of dying fireplace embers, whispering…)

Der Horror, Der Horror…

heh,

By: Technomad

Technomad — Thu, 24 May 2007 19:27:05 +0000

“There was me, Karl, and me three droogies: Friederich, Heinrich and Dim. We were sitting around the old British Museum Reading Room, trying to make up our rassodocks what to do with the evening, a flip dark evening, bastard though dry. We were peeting the old moloko-plus—-plus essence of Working Class Solidarity, which made us ready for a bit of the old dirty call-to-the-barricades.”
—from A Clockwork Beard, Stanley Kubrick, director.