It’s not an exaggeration to say that it’s hard to imagine a more wretched human being than Karl Marx.

I tried really hard to think of a worse German but I couldn’t think of one

As someone of German ancestry, I can attest that this type of slovenliness is not a typical trait of Germans, then or now. Germans tend to pride themselves on their cleanliness.

Germans are clean in a fundamentally genetic sense. And, after all, Marx was ethnically Jewish.

Jonathan Miltimore is the former Senior Creative Strategist of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education.

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