Marx on beards
Regarding recent Guardian letters on beards and philosophy, here is the view of Marx. A beard is not required but clearly in his case it helped a lot…
Heroes of the Exile, unlikely as it may seem, was a satirical work and here Marx takes the rise out of the idea that a beard is required for deep thinking…
With this in mind he refrained for the time being from all political activity and withdrew into the seclusion of his home in order to grow a beard, without which no prophet can succeed
Heroes of the Exile 1852 on Kinkel
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