Marx, Christ and You
When Karl Marxs housekeeper bore him a son three months after his wife gave birth to their fourth child, his first thought was his reputation. In what biographer Francis Wheen refers to as one of the first and most successful cover-ups for the greater good of the Communist cause, Marx managed to get his close friend, Friedrich Engels, to take the blame, and the woman to give up her 5-week-old infant for adoption.