Old Marx had a skin disease, frequently infected eyes, an enlarged liver, and was often drunk on Bordeaux wine. He didn’t lead a healthy lifestyle.
He was also stressed out trying to take care of his wife and kids with his meager income as a writer/journalist, on top of trying to manage the workingmen’s association. Also he had police spies from Prussia and Belgium watching over him. Like all of that will age a person.
Old Marx had a skin disease, frequently infected eyes, an enlarged liver, and was often drunk on Bordeaux wine. He didn’t lead a healthy lifestyle.
He was also stressed out trying to take care of his wife and kids with his meager income as a writer/journalist, on top of trying to manage the workingmen’s association. Also he had police spies from Prussia and Belgium watching over him. Like all of that will age a person.
I think Lenin took a lot better care of himself.
That is all true. I think the massive beard also plays a factor.