100 Years Before the Marx Brothers

When Karl Marx met Friedrich Engels in 1842, he didn’t think at first that Engels was a serious enough revolutionary.

Engels had a dog he had named Nameless. And Nameless was trained so that when his owner wanted him to growl at somebody, all he had to do was point at the person and say, “aristocrat!”

Karl wanted deeply committed revolutionaries — like Groucho:

“Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.”

But, as Groucho himself admitted, “Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men. The other 999 follow women.”

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