WI: Karl Marx lived to 1940

Wallet

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The oldest human being lived to be 122. Had Karl Marx, founder of communism, lived that long he would have lived from 1818 to 1940.

What if Karl Marx lived to 1940? How would the world be different with Marx living though World War I, Russian Revolution, and Great Depression.

I think it would be interesting he he wrote a letter to FDR praising the New Deal, same as he wrote to Lincoln praising the Emancipation Proclamation
 
This should be on ASB forum:

- Marx health wasn't best possible to do that.
- Medicine of that time not make that possible.
- Calment was only human who has even lived to 120 years. And from her death is bit over twenty years. So it not be very likely.
- And men
 

ar-pharazon

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I'd think Marx making a hundred or 105 is more plausible-he was both a drinker and a workaholic though so I'd have my doubts.

If he did live to see the beginning of the 20th century and the First World War then I imagine his commentary would certainly be intriguing.

Might be interesting he lived to be 99 dying just on the eve of the Russian revolution.
 
I'd think Marx making a hundred or 105 is more plausible-he was both a drinker and a workaholic though so I'd have my doubts.

If he did live to see the beginning of the 20th century and the First World War then I imagine his commentary would certainly be intriguing.

Might be interesting he lived to be 99 dying just on the eve of the Russian revolution.

Engels living to see WW1 would be more plausible. He'd just have had to live to his mid 90's, nothing Guiness world records worthy.
 

Toraach

Banned
Well the best outcome would be that he lived to 30s and migrated to the Soviet Union, and later he was arrested by the Cheka/OGPU/NKVD and had a trial for ringwing deviations and later executed.
 
Well the best outcome would be that he lived to 30s and migrated to the Soviet Union, and later he was arrested by the Cheka/OGPU/NKVD and had a trial for ringwing deviations and later executed.
There is no way Carl Marx would be executed in the Soviet Union as he was a legendary figure for Socialists. It's like Soviets executing Lenin.
 
Not even that, simply pack him off to a out-of the way city on the Black Sea with some faff about how the Great Visionary has become careworn and after decades of labor on behalf of the workingman is rather in need of some rest.
 

RousseauX

Donor
Well the best outcome would be that he lived to 30s and migrated to the Soviet Union, and later he was arrested by the Cheka/OGPU/NKVD and had a trial for ringwing deviations and later executed.
there's no way marx would move to the ussr imo, he would have already had numerous disputes with living Communists in power in the USSR in the early 1900s had he lived

he would have lived in England or Paris imo if forced to flee germany
 
The oldest human being lived to be 122. Had Karl Marx, founder of communism, lived that long he would have lived from 1818 to 1940.

What if Karl Marx lived to 1940? How would the world be different with Marx living though World War I, Russian Revolution, and Great Depression.

I think it would be interesting he he wrote a letter to FDR praising the New Deal, same as he wrote to Lincoln praising the Emancipation Proclamation
He is confused with the Marx brothers.
 

Toraach

Banned
there's no way marx would move to the ussr imo, he would have already had numerous disputes with living Communists in power in the USSR in the early 1900s had he lived

he would have lived in England or Paris imo if forced to flee germany
That's true! No one wanted to wait in endless lines for bread or butter!
 
I was going to link to a quasi-related post of mine on SHWI, where I calculated when several people would have died if they' lived (to the day) as long as Jeanne Calment... And that's when I got the news. :x
 
If he lived as long as Jiroemon Kimura (age 116) he could witness the Great Depression and the rise of Hitler. Although a living Marx will probably have serious butterflies.
 
there's no way marx would move to the ussr imo, he would have already had numerous disputes with living Communists in power in the USSR in the early 1900s had he lived
Why do you say that? Marx likely would have been enthusiastic about the communist revolution, and would more than likely be curious about the new government. No doubt he would be invited by Lenin. Probably wouldn't be so enthusiastic once Stalin took power, though.
 
Wouldn't public backlash be too much even for Stalin? Imprisoning Marx at home or exiling him seems more likely to me.
By the time Stalin took firm control all the hardcore Marxists were replaced with puppets. The majority of the population wouldn't care anyhow, and the Marxists would be too scared to speak out. Considering Marx would be over 100 years old, I don't think Stalin would need to kill him with an ice pick. He falls down a flight of stairs. Accidents happen.
 
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