And while much of the Communist leadership were bourgeois or aristocrat types themselves I hardly see how you could really expect the thought leaders to be otherwise. Some prole slaving away in a factory 16 hours a day didn't have time or the means to write tomes with references to Hegel and Ricardo. That usually had to be wealthy dudes or those supported by wealthy dudes.
Joe_McCarthy 0 points 3 months ago
Engels was an ethnic German.
And while much of the Communist leadership were bourgeois or aristocrat types themselves I hardly see how you could really expect the thought leaders to be otherwise. Some prole slaving away in a factory 16 hours a day didn't have time or the means to write tomes with references to Hegel and Ricardo. That usually had to be wealthy dudes or those supported by wealthy dudes.