User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 03-12-'14 — New Assassin's Creed in Victorian London leaked/@comment-24760042-20141204185324/@comment-183.87.173.28-20141208042458

When he was in England, Karl Marx did lots of interesting things. As a journalist he chronicled the 1857 Indian Mutiny and supported Indian Independence, feeling that people had a right to self-determination and the English had no right to leech their resources and call it progress. 

More interesting for Americans is that Marx supported the Union during the American Civil War, wrote letters to Lincoln and criticized English businessmen who wanted to support the South(Because of Cotton Trade), he campaigned extensively for this and the English Working Class proudly stated they didn't mind lowered wages as long as their income doesn't come from slavery, so that played a part in England not joining with the South on the Civil War. If they show that then it can make him really sympathetic. 

Marx was a workaholic in habit, he wrote a lot, worked extensively in the English libraries, and since he wasn't an academic and had tenure he struggled quite a bit.