How do I know?

http://www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine/ferguson150407.html

“In a brief appendix, Wheen gives us Marx’s own “Confessions,” written in answer to a parlor game interview by his daughters sometime in the 1860s:

“Your chief characteristic?” “Singleness of purpose.”

“Your idea of happiness?” “To fight.”

“Your idea of misery?” “Submission.”

“Your favorite hero?” “Spartacus.”

“Your favorite color?” “Red.”

There you have it….from Marx’s own lips. RED.

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Oh…here’s a bonus (a semi-funny joke) that I stumbled on as i was researching your answer.

Karl Marx’s response to…”Why did the chicken cross the road”?

MARX: To spread the international organization of the chicken-proletariat in their class-struggle against the heinous bourgeoisie child-killing egg-frying capitalist farmer-class.

He was carrying unifying propaganda meant to instill the virtues and fervor of the labor struggle against the alienating psychological effects of egg-stealing by the evil capitalists. An egg-cott was in the offing: the very foundations of the international capitalist egg-conspiracy were to be shaken by the balk and refusal to lay of all working-chickens everywhere! The fox, an agent of the oppressive bourgeoisie, saw his crossing, and ate him: dichotomized in his relations of production, suffering the ultimate alienation of the worker from his labors, the chicken’s story is merely further evidence that the worker-chicken cannot escape his labor-role in the cog of the capitalist conspiracy until all laborers everywhere, of whatever specie, are united in their stand against the alienating forces of international exploitative capitalistic egg-consumption!”

(Something tells me that “Groucho” got all the funny genes in the Marx clan).

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