# Karl Marx's great-great-great-grandson is a YouTuber

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 25, 2018, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karl-marxs-great-great-great-grandson-is-a-youtuber/825070 "2018-11-25T20:20:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2018, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karl-marxs-great-great-great-grandson-is-a-youtuber/825070/1 "2018-11-25T20:20:58Z")

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23 year old Joseph Marx does parkour on YouTube, and recently spent a week homeless with a couple of friends to publicize how the homeless have to live.

> **[Karl Marx's great-great-grandson backflips for money while sleeping rough on...](https://www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/13924611.karl-marxs-great-great-grandson-backflips-for-money-while-sleeping-rough-on-kingstons-streets/)**
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> A direct descendant of socialist revolutionary Karl Marx has been spending the week sleeping rough on Kingston’s streets to raise awareness of…

Some of his stunts:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/IgSp9oEcgz4/maxresdefault.jpg "Exclamation Marx! | Joseph Marx") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgSp9oEcgz4)

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**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2018, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karl-marxs-great-great-great-grandson-is-a-youtuber/825070/2 "2018-11-25T22:23:46Z")

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Parkour is the opium of the people.

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**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2018, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karl-marxs-great-great-great-grandson-is-a-youtuber/825070/3 "2018-11-26T01:02:03Z")

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Wait, how does Karl Marx have a descendant named “Marx”? [All of his surviving legitimate children were girls](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx#Family). (There may have been an illegitimate son, but as far as I can tell he didn’t have the Marx name.)

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2018, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karl-marxs-great-great-great-grandson-is-a-youtuber/825070/4 "2018-11-26T01:13:38Z")

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Perhaps he adopted the name? Perhaps his parents or grandparents did so?

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2018, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karl-marxs-great-great-great-grandson-is-a-youtuber/825070/5 "2018-11-26T02:03:37Z")

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Surely you mean he _appropriated_ the name for the benefit of the masses.

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2018, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karl-marxs-great-great-great-grandson-is-a-youtuber/825070/6 "2018-11-26T03:36:44Z")

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That’s the most ridiculous thing I ever hoid!

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2018, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karl-marxs-great-great-great-grandson-is-a-youtuber/825070/7 "2018-11-26T03:54:41Z")

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_“The workers control the means of production!”_

No, I’m sorry. Its Wolverhampton!

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**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karl-marxs-great-great-great-grandson-is-a-youtuber/825070/8 "2018-11-27T00:55:30Z")

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Ask Eleanor Roosevelt. Or[Jeffrey Hammond.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Hammond)