1) Considering the appeal of Marxism: why might ordinary working class men and women such as Elizabeth Bentley and Ellen Johnston, be attracted to the ideas of a middle class intellectual like Karl Marx? Do you think that artisans such as the silk weavers of Coventry would find his idea equally appealing?

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Duncan Fleming

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15 July, 03:10

1) Considering the appeal of Marxism: why might ordinary working class men and women such as Elizabeth Bentley and Ellen Johnston, be attracted to the ideas of a middle class intellectual like Karl Marx? Do you think that artisans such as the silk weavers of Coventry would find his idea equally appealing?

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River Morgan · Answer 1

Marxist ideas were utopian and egalitarian thefore working class people, some of them, would belive in ideas of middel class men like marx who never had proper job in hislife due to simple fact mentioned above it was egalitarian idea paradoxaly taken from representat of other class which represents belief in authorty of someone 'not form the inside' which is paradox, in second question yes for some it could be attractive