Edit: Quote not real 😔
spoiler
Who would go on the internet and lie?
😭
this report actually just now came in:
I tried to look it up but came up short. Love the idea though!
Doing gods’ work.
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I got this from Reddit (I know, sorry)
"u/reinschlau • 1y ago It’s a joke. But out of curiosity I ctrl+f’ed through the collected works, and the only mention of cocaine was in a letter from Engels to Ludwig Kugelmann (volume 48), in 1889 (after Marx’s death, when Engels would have been editing Capital vol 3 and whatever else Marx left behind):
Dear Kugelmann, A Happy New Year to you. Thank you for the prescription for my eyes, which, however, is not nearly concentrated enough for me. Last year and up till August I used cocaine and, as this grew less effective (on account of habituation), went on to ZnCl 2 , which works very well.
But there are also relevant discussions of alcohol and opium in The Condition of the Working-Class in England and elsewhere."
It seems to cover most of it. You probably have to read the relevant parts on alcohol and opium to get the full picture but it is mostly a joke.
PS the uses of cocaine as a medication in olden days is pretty fun some times. I once saw an ad for cocaine as a “nasal anesthetic”. I bet that flew off the shelves. Seriously though, it was probably fairly expensive and diluted.
It’s still used as a nasal anesthetic today
In my head he said this so it’s okay I think
Probably should add that the quote is fake, but it’s funny nonetheless
I read The Communist Manifesto when I was a teenager, but I don’t remember anything about free cocaine.
He literally didn’t say that.
Wish he would though
Does weed count? Helps me get a lot of shit done!
That’s what I use when I don’t want anything done.
Yes actually. I loves me some weed too, but society has no right to put you under this pressure.
Bored people discover and create all sorts of useful stuff. Your thoughts are worth having! Yes even those thoughts. You deserve to be happy as the person you were born to be. ❤️
I’d take legal cocaine to be able to achieve my goals… :<
I’d settle with mostly unadulterated cocaine regardless of legality at this point.
I did cocaine once, in college/ uni. Pretty sure that my GF at the time was super disappointed. She expected even more sex than usual, I got nicknamed “Tiger” by my dorm mates after she showed up. Instead I promptly passed out and stayed comatose for about 16 hours. NEVER AGAIN. Apparently cocaine and my version of ADD just don’t mix.
Best I can do is strong coffee.
What did he have to say about free beer?
