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The strange story of Karl Marx and the street lamps

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Writing the manifesto for global revolution is stressful, so clearly getting hammered and aggressively fighting infrastructure is entirely justified. When Marx wasn't theorizing class warfare, he was famously known to get heavily intoxicated with his university buddies. During one legendary pub crawl in London, he actively threw paving stones at gas lamps and had to literally outrun the local police.

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