North’s statement is an excellent summary of the implications and goals of a socialized neoplatonism. In more ways than one, Marx resembled Wigglesworth. Somewhere in his youth, Wigglesworth had apparently fallen into sexual troubles and perhaps contracted gonorrhea. Marx had seduced, or, more likely, raped his wife’s servant, a faithful woman who guided the improvident Marx family with common sense and dignity. A son was born. As Payne has commented, For Marx, wrapped up in his dreams of revolution