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Title: Marx's erupting skin may have influenced writings
Source: http://today.reuters.com/
URL Source: http://today.reuters.com/news/artic ... 94_RTRUKOC_0_US-MARX-BOILS.xml
Published: Oct 30, 2007
Author: Reuters
Post Date: 2007-11-04 22:58:35 by robin
Keywords: None
Views: 139
Comments: 6

LONDON (Reuters) - Karl Marx, who complained of excruciating boils, actually suffered from a chronic skin disease with known psychological effects that may well have influenced his writings, a British expert said on Tuesday.

Sam Shuster, professor of dermatology at the University of East Anglia, believes the revolutionary thinker had hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) in which the apocrine sweat glands -- found mainly in the armpits and groin -- become blocked and inflamed.

"In addition to reducing his ability to work, which contributed to his depressing poverty, hidradenitis greatly reduced his self-esteem," said Shuster, who published his findings in the British Journal of Dermatology.

"This explains his self-loathing and alienation, a response reflected by the alienation Marx developed in his writing."

While HS is linked to boil-like lumps, the painful condition also causes more widespread infection, swelling, skin thickening and scarring.

It could also explain a number of Marx's other complaints, not previously linked, such as joint pain and a painful eye condition which often stopped him working.

Shuster based his diagnosis on an analysis of Marx's extensive correspondence, in which he wrote to friends about his health and described his skin lesions as "curs" and "swine".

"The bourgeoisie will remember my carbuncles until their dying day," Marx told Friedrich Engels in a letter from 1867.

Marx, who died in 1883, was one of the most influential philosophers of the 19th century and his radical writings formed the basis of modern communism.

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#1. To: robin (#0)

Such are the causes of world history.

Too bad he didn't become an opium-eater instead to ease the pain.


I've already said too much.

MUDDOG  posted on  2007-11-04   23:06:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: MUDDOG (#1)

Should we mail some to Cheney?

Ron Paul for President - Join a Ron Paul Meetup group today!

robin  posted on  2007-11-04   23:07:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: robin (#2) (Edited)

I don't know what happened to Cheney. He seems so sane in that 1994 interview explaining why Bush Sr. didn't go all the way to Baghdad.


I've already said too much.

MUDDOG  posted on  2007-11-04   23:09:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: robin (#0)

Marx, who died in 1883, was one of the most influential philosophers of the 19th century

Marx stole many of his ideas from others.

Also he was an enthusiastic supporter of Lincoln.

Cynicom  posted on  2007-11-04   23:15:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Cynicom (#4) (Edited)

The Confederacy issued some cotton-backed bonds in Europe, after overcoming rumors that Jefferson Davis had defaulted on some loans before the war.


I've already said too much.

MUDDOG  posted on  2007-11-04   23:21:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: robin (#0)

And Lincoln was gay. There are many ways to get a stupid book sold. This is one of them. Publish or perish.

Honi soit qui mal y pense

Mekons4  posted on  2007-11-04   23:22:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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