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seeking sources on the upbringings/pre-revolutionary lives of socialists of note (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by WhyEssEff@hexbear.net to c/history@hexbear.net

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honestly it's mostly the fact that I want them as refs for my own personal worldbuilding and character writing. I don't trust Google for this so I'm outsourcing the query here.

I want to cut around the psychoanalysis industrial complex that seems to plague that genre of work. I'd appreciate sources for any notable socialist, but there are a few I'm going to name specifically because I'm either looking into them specifically or anticipate getting mired in doing so later:

Marx
Engels
Lenin
Stalin
Mao
Rosa
Che
Fidel
Sankara
Gramsci
Kim Il-Sung
Fred Hampton
Malcolm X
Ho Chi Minh
Trotsky

Some of these I have a general idea of, but it can't hurt to clear up the details. I'd also appreciate any socialist-adjacent (e.g. whatever John Brown was doing) figures as well.

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[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

On this note, I once heard someone criticize Marx because he allegedly abandoned his children and treated his wife poorly.

I know Marx had to go into exile several times, but is there any merit to that? Or is that just an irrelevant Rightist talking-point?

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago

As far as i've read, the only way Marx could dedicate himself to his work was because his wife was pulling a lot of weight in and out of the household. They had a tense but loving relationship, with Marx feeling terrible every time his wife would remind him that she and his children had to eat and he had nothing to show for it.