From Troy Jollimore’s review of Mary Gabriel’s new book on Karl Marx’s personal life, Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
He spent much of his life in poor health and constant pain as a result of various ailments. (One particularly humanizing moment has him writing to Engels that he had had to give up going to the British Museum Reading Room on account of his hemorrhoids, which “afflicted me more grievously than the French Revolution.”)
(Source: bnreview.barnesandnoble.com)
