Marx on The Drum, page-66

'Ere denk; a bit of a leg-up in your trigger-the-tig
marxist panoply:
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When Marx played in a capital venture

RAYMOND WHITAKER
Tuesday 8 September 1992 23:02 BST

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/when-marx-played-in-a-capital-venture-1550195.html

SO THAT'S all right then. Communist China, where speculation in shares is running high, says Karl Marx himself was not above playing the market.
In 1864, according to historical documents quoted by the Peking Youth News yesterday, share deals in London netted the father of Communism about pounds 400 - worth pounds 15,000 today.
The money for his venture into capitalism was borrowed from his factory-owning comrade, Friedrich Engels.
Marx even boasted about his unearned income. He is quoted as telling friends, with breathtaking political incorrectness: 'It doesn't take much time to do this, and, if you are willing to risk a little bit, you can grasp money away from your opponents.'
Ross McKibben, an authority on 19th-century Britain, had not seen the documents cited, but said: 'This is quite plausible. Engels was an active investor on the stock market for many years.'
Dr McKibben, of St Antony's College, Oxford, suspected Marx was not the wheeler-dealer he claimed to be:
'He probably just put the money where Engels told him.'
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What fun the two must have had in bamboozling Neighbourhood Proletariat
with their manifestos while following Buy-Sell manifestos from opposite side.
Can't argue with hysterical history like that!
Cheers,