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Left: last photograph of Karl Marx, taken by E. Dutertre in Algiers, on 28 April 1882. Right: a photomontage-based upon Marx's own correspondence, where he said that the photo was taken just a short while before he went to the barber to have his hair cut and his beard shaved off, and shows how he may have looked after his visit to the barber.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Left-last-photograph-of-Karl-Marx-taken-by-E-Dutertre-in-Algiers-on-28-April-1882_fig1_323320182

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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have a Marx-like beard. Now I wonder if I should never shave it off. Within a year after his trim - he died. And mustaches aren't my thing anyway.

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

Within a year after his trim - he died.

The Communist Samson !

[–] Esoteir@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

if we want communism to survive we must bury the right image and all collectively agree to never mention its existence again to anybody

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

It definitely seems wrong to look at the guy without the full beard. He seems naked.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This picture always makes me sad because it was taken about 6 months after his wife Jenny had died. He got really sick with bronchitis so a doctor told him to stay in Algeria for a while to escape how shitty England was.

[–] pinguinu@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Reminds me of how Chopin went to Mallorca for his tuberculosis but he (or whoever made the decision) picked literally the worst place in the island (a village in the mountains). I get that the coast is humid, but so is actually the entire island.

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

Welp, that settles it, never shaving my beard or cutting my hair again.

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

I dunno, I think he looks kinda cute without the beard

[–] GenXen@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

I always wondered what Thomas Edison might look like with a badly cropped head of Marx superimposed over his own face.

But maybe that's just me.

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

im an anticommunist now wtf negative

[–] BeanBoy@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

Photographer captures people's reactions when told they are beautiful

A photographer conducted a social experiment to see what happens when you tell someone they are beautiful.