BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?

Subject: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: GUEST,The Man
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 03:14 PM

What's the current thinking on this issue? I read somewhere that there are various schools of thought. Some say that a person called Marx may have existed but that he was nothing like the person depicted in the Communist Manifesto. I also read somewhere that a lot of the Catholic clergy are rather sceptical of Marx's miracle workings. Anyway, what is the latest consensus(!) on all this.

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: Peace
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 03:26 PM

Ask his brother, Groucho or Harpo or . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 03:40 PM

This site needs a good moderator...

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: Gareth
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 03:43 PM

If he did not, theres a funny hole in the ground in Highgate Cemetary.

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 04:31 PM

Did Zeppo Marx really exist?

What about Shemp, the fourth stooge? Did he really exist?

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 05:08 PM

Zeppo, sure...even Gummo! all them Marx kids were all-too-real

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: Don Firth
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 06:00 PM

He was a famous masked swordsman who lived in early nineteenth century California and fought for the welfare of the peasants. Surely you heard of the Marx of Zorro!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 06:05 PM

...so, was Zorro a first name, or last name? (imagining Zeppo Zorro...which would require TWO Zs sliced into the bad guy's hide!)

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 06:14 PM

Let's hope so...

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: Peace
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 06:41 PM

Of course Zeppo existed--what a foolish question--they named a lighter after him.

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: Peace
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 06:42 PM

And what about Marx and Spencer?

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 11:06 PM

And this: Porthos, Athos, Aramis, and D'Artagnan. How come only three get credit? Was there a conspiracy?

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: Peace
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 11:28 PM

And the same with Larry, Curly, Moe and Marx. Why is Marx always left out. The same might be asked of Laurel, Hardy and Marx. Or Batman, Robin and Marx. Sometimes, there is just no justice.

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 11:47 PM

"they named a lighter after him"

Ummm... that's a -Zippo-...

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Nov 03 - 12:14 AM

Hart, Schaffner, & Marx ..what a team! Bet none of the OTHER Marx'x ever went there!

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: GUEST,Clint Keller
Date: 18 Nov 03 - 12:52 AM

No, Cliinton, you're thinking of the Graf Zippolin, a dirigible of the '30s.

clint

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 18 Nov 03 - 09:29 AM

Dylan clearly thought so when he wrote "It's all right Marx, I'm only bleeding..."

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: s6k
Date: 18 Nov 03 - 09:38 AM

i hope i got top marx in my maths exam yesterday!

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: Peace
Date: 18 Nov 03 - 12:37 PM

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Marx . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: s6k
Date: 18 Nov 03 - 02:36 PM

Fancy a game of Marxo Polo ?

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: M.Ted
Date: 18 Nov 03 - 04:14 PM

Of course he exists, and every Christmas, he brings presents to each child, according to his need--

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: Mr Red
Date: 18 Nov 03 - 04:23 PM

Well there is plenty of documentary evidence that a man did exist, some think he was a deity and some feel he was just a political agitator. And he did feed the masses with only five loaths and two small facists.

Oh sorry I thought this was the Jesus thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: Gern
Date: 18 Nov 03 - 04:28 PM

He was often mistaken for his taller brother, widely known as 'Stretch' Marx

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: Gurney
Date: 19 Nov 03 - 01:57 AM

Or his bitter brother, Snidrey Marx.

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: fiddler
Date: 19 Nov 03 - 08:33 AM

I heard that karl Marx grave or (supposed Grave) is merely another communist plot!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 19 Nov 03 - 12:22 PM

On your marx, get set, GO

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: s6k
Date: 19 Nov 03 - 02:33 PM

pmsl.

maybe i will start harpo lessons

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: Mr Red
Date: 19 Nov 03 - 04:23 PM

Gurney

That was Groucho.

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: MarkS
Date: 19 Nov 03 - 07:20 PM

Shouldn't Groucho be in quotation Marx?

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: DougR
Date: 20 Nov 03 - 12:43 AM

I think he is alive and well in West Virginia, or California, or Canada, or Harlow! :>)

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: LadyJean
Date: 20 Nov 03 - 12:49 AM

My sister used to sing a song about Jesus Christ that included the lines, "He defied the social classes, preached gospel to the masse, and predated Marx by 1800 years."

I am, of course, a comitted Marxist. I follow the teachings of Groucho, Chico, and Harpo.

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: DougR
Date: 20 Nov 03 - 12:31 PM

Funny, Lady Jean, I am too! Especially Groucho!

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: Bobert
Date: 20 Nov 03 - 05:50 PM

I caught that one, Dougie...

Tell me when yer havin' fun....

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Karl Marx-did he really exist?
From: DougR
Date: 21 Nov 03 - 01:47 PM

I'm having fun, Bobert!
:>)
DougR