Dear Fred, please send me 25 bucks, I have received a credible tip on a new alt-coin that Lafargue has invested in.
i mean if i was the son of some rich industrialist i would pay my friend’s rent too tbh, but i wonder if the terse writing is just how they wrote or if it is karl marx hiding feelings of inadequacy or something, its hard to ask others for money even if you know they would give it, especially for a cis man in a very patriarchal time. especially hard to ask outside of the immediate family as well. it might have been weirder for engels if marx opened with some kind of softener line or sob story right? idk how their relationship was though. dudes are weird sometimes.
I can imagine writing like that if invited to do so. If he doesn’t want to hear a sob story because he’s busy or indifferent, then cutting to the chase makes it easier to read. It could be indicative of feelings of inadequacy, but I wouldn’t conclude that based on a bare bones note.
*our rent
Sorry ur wife died or whatever, can you send me 50 bucks?
£3 in 1868 would be equivalent to £280 today. My rent alone is triple that.
Mao was right.
