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Intimate Diaries

God Bless Karl Marx!

Peter Mullen uncovers the personal secrets of philosophers.

Today I wrote these words: “Capitalists are parasites on the working class. All property is theft.”

Ah, so very true! Yet I have discovered that in order to be a seriously successful communist, one needs a good start in life, and in this I was most fortunate. My father owned many fine vineyards in the Moselle, and my mother came from a wealthy family of factory-owners who would eventually found the Philips Electronics Company. So I was able to attend Bonn and Berlin universities and turn my mind to planning the revolution! Unfortunately, the authorities unkindly disapproved of my political programme and so I was obliged to flee to London.