Marx and his brothers respected his opinions and asked him on several occasions to write some material for them.

" ( asked when Marx felt sorry for a contestant who had not won anything ).

Marx was asked to apply the greasepaint mustache once more for You Bet Your Life when it came to television, but he refused, opting instead to grow a real one, which he wore for the rest of his life.

Before he died, Marx asked Engels to write up these ideas, which were published in 1884 under the title The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State.

When asked about Karl Marx, Malcolm X ( who had never read Marx ) stated that he agreed with Spengler ’ s view of social class and economic systems as secondary to racial identity.

In his 1997 interview with Arthur Marx in Cigar Aficionado magazine, Falk said " One evening when I arrived late, she looked at me and asked, ' Young man, why are you always late?

Double entendres are very common in the titles and lyrics of pop songs, such as " If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me " by The Bellamy Brothers, which is based on an old Groucho Marx quote, where the person being talked to is asked, by one interpretation if they would be offended, and by the other, if they would press their body against the person doing the talking.

When Groucho Marx was asked about Abbott shortly after his death, his response was that Abbott was " the greatest straight man ever.

In Lady Blue Eyes, Barbara Sinatra claims that Marx was considered too young to perform with his brothers, and it wasn't until Gummo joined the Army that Marx was asked to join the act as a last-minute stand-in at a show in Texas.

When Richard J. Anobile asked Groucho in The Marx Bros. Scrapbook which brother to whom he was closest, Groucho replied.

Their relationship was superficially cordial, and Marx asked for a loan of £ 30.

Later, Marx was asked to develop new characters as they were introduced.

When Groucho called Keaton on the inappropriateness of his gags for the Marx Brothers, Keaton responded, " I'm only doing what Mr. Mayer asked me to do.

From 1947 – 1956, if the couple ended with $ 25 or less, Marx asked an elementary consolation question for a total of $ 25 ( later $ 100 ) which did not count toward the scores.

When asked about those who believe ' Marx was right all along ', he responded that they were guilty of ignoring the systematic abuses and poverty of centrally planned economies, and criticised Eric Hobsbawm, saying that " only when Hobsbawm weeps hot tears for a life spent serving an ideology of wickedness will he ever be worth listening to.

Eyeing Steele's prematurely greying hair at 34, Thompson asked: " Bloody hell, who've we got here, Groucho Marx?

According to Groucho Marx, when Erlanger approached Gen. Lew Wallace about acquiring the stage rights to his epic novel Ben-Hur, Wallace asked him fiercely, " Do you believe in our lord, Jesus Christ?

The rise of cultural anthropology occurred within the context of the late 19th century, when questions regarding which cultures were " primitive " and which were " civilized " occupied the minds of not only Marx and Freud, but many others.

Previously fixated upon questions of abstract philosophy, Marx was first introduced to practical journalism in the course of writing for the Rheinische Zeitung.

Marx analyzed the debate of the Rhineland Diet dealing with the alleged theft of wood by the peasantry — a topic which Marx later recalled " provided the first occasion for occupying myself in the economic questions.

Citing Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, Lenin clarifies theoretical questions about the existence of the State after the proletarian revolution, addressing the arguments of anti-authoritarians, anarchists, social democrats, and reformists, in describing the progressive stages of societal change — the revolution, establishing “ the lower stage of communist society ” ( the socialist commune ), and the “ higher stage of communist society ” that will yield a stable society where personal freedom might be fully expressed.

While at Manchester, he was a member of the 1975 University Challenge team that lost in the first round after answering most questions with the name of a revolutionary (" Trotsky ", " Lenin ", " Karl Marx " or " Che Guevara "); the team's tactics were a protest against the fact that the Oxford and Cambridge universities can enter each of their colleges in the contest as a separate team, even though the individual colleges are not universities in themselves.

Marx and Engels answer all of these questions with three laws.

He foresaw, like Karl Marx, the phenomenon of an alienated industrial proletariat.

Minnie Marx did not have an entertainment industry career, but had intense ambition for her sons to go on the stage like their uncle.

In his late 70s at the time, Marx remarked on his appearance: " I looked like I was embalmed.

In any case, revolutionaries like Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, and Mao Zedong had no trouble adapting Clausewitz's concepts to their own purposes.

Proudhon's theory of property greatly influenced the budding socialist movement, inspiring anarchist theorists such as Mikhail Bakunin who modified Proudhon's ideas, as well as antagonizing theorists like Karl Marx.

Socialists including Karl Marx, Robert Owen, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and John Stuart Mill advocated various forms of labour vouchers or labour-credits, which like money would be used to acquire articles of consumption, but unlike money, they are unable to become capital and would not be used to allocate resources within the production process.

Marx, like many critical theorists who followed, did not reject the existence of objective truth but rather distinguished between true knowledge and knowledge that has been distorted through power or ideology.

( Joe Adamson, in Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Sometimes Zeppo, observed that this scene disproved the common notion that Zeppo was the least of the Marx Brothers: " It takes a Marx Brother to pull something like that on a Marx Brother and get away with it.

Mao emphasizes — like Marx in trying to confront the " bourgeoisie idealism " of his time — that knowledge must be based on empirical evidence.

Old friends like Georg Friedrich Herwegh, who had worked with Marx on the Rheinsche Zeitung, Heinrich Heine, the famous poet, a young doctor by the name of Roland Daniels, Heinrich Bürgers and August Herman Ewerbeck all maintained their contacts with Marx and Engels in Brussels.

When Louis Bonaparte carried out a coup against the French government and made himself president for life on December 2, 1851, Marx and Engels, like many people, were shocked.

And while in his extensive correspondence with German socialists Engels modestly presented his own secondary place in the couple's intellectual relationship and always emphasized Marx ' outstanding role, Russian communists like Lenin raised Engels up with Marx and conflated their thoughts as if they were necessarily congruous.

To Marx and anarchist thinkers like Bakunin and Kropotkin their concept of wage slavery was as a class condition in place due to the existence of private property and the state.

" Fellow film critic Roger Ebert believes, " The Marx Brothers created a body of work in which individual films are like slices from the whole, but Duck Soup is probably the best.

: Famous German-Brazilians are former military dictator Ernesto Geisel, politician Jorge Bornhausen, actress Vera Fischer, Cacilda Becker, top models such as Gisele Bündchen, Ana Hickmann, Letícia Birkheuer and Rodrigo Hilbert, musicians like Andreas Kisser and Astrud Gilberto, architect Oscar Niemeyer, landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx, physicist and astronomer Marcelo Gleiser, physician Adolfo Lutz, basketball player Oscar Schmidt, tennis player Gustavo Kuerten, swimmer Fernando Scherer, TV host Xuxa Meneghel, Cardinals Cláudio Hummes and Paulo Evaristo Arns and the renowned sailor Robert Scheidt among many others.

I, like many other socialists, greeted the fall of the Soviet model with unqualified rejoicing ; and I don't doubt that Karl Marx would have been celebrating.

The Great Gatsby's themes and characters reflected the real-world transformation that Great Neck was experiencing at the time, as show-business personalities like Sid Caesar and the Marx Brothers bought homes in the hamlet and eventually established it as a haven for Jews, formerly of Brooklyn and the Bronx.

Some, like Murray Bookchin, argue that capitalism has already been superseded: in a modern information society the old industrial system is a thing of the past, and the reference to capitalism is an anachronism ( although Marx never defined capitalism as being purely industrial ).

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Allen has said that he told Morton to " play the part like Harpo Marx.

He describes labour power as a commodity, and like all commodities, Marx assumes that on average it is exchanged at its value.