Kmflett's Blog

Since Marx was plagued by carbuncles on his posterior (and elsewhere) chairs are likely to have been an important issue.

The picture above is the chair Marx is thought to have died in, in 1883. Its in the Karl Marx Museum in Trier.

Also extant is the Windsor Chair, a similar shape but not padded, that Marx allegedly sat in while writing Capital.

Engels was particularly critical of armchair socialists. He wrote to Bebel (20-23 January 1886)

the hotch-potch of armchair socialism which, however, is not a theory but sheer drivel.