We always think of revolutions when Karl Marx is mentioned, but the truth is he had huge passion for romance and un-winded life. Karl Marx was born in a middle class life, enjoying privileges of being son of a lawyer and having a mother who was a university professor of mathematics. Reading The Marx He knew by John spargo, you notice Karl Marx was average in terms of intelligence but very hard working and book loving, fond of eating fish and comfortable with colour black. In Marx and Engels through the Eyes of Contemporaries, written by an anonymous author and published by progressive publishers of Moscow, there is an interesting story that Karl Marx was reckless socially. Masinde Muliro, as student of political science in South Africa, studied Karl Marx to a great extent.

Source: Daily Nation May 13, 2017 10:04 UTC