The Sock Council has produced Karl Marx socks (Das Captain) which are the late summer item for beard wearers.
Marx himself though had a view on socks:
According to Marx (Heroes of the Exile 1852) an ‘officer of the revolution’ requires 8 pairs of socks’. He was quoting Franz Zigel who he describes as ‘beardless’. The officer also required three pairs of underpants
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