Quote Originally Posted by Feedback View Post
Karl Marx wasn't German. you even said yourself he was born in Prussia, ergo he was Prussian, just like Bismarck. Prussia wasn't Germany therefore in the same way Oliver Cromwell was not British, Marx wasn't German.

Germany didn't even exist when Marx was born, German irredentism only came about following the revolutions of 1848.

The whole concept of what a German empire and state would look like was only decided following the Austro-Prussian war in 1866 and the Kleinedeutshce factions won the day. If the Austrian's had won that war, you'd be suggesting Freud and Tesla were German too.
Does it only count when someone is born?

If a new country is formed, do they have a population of zero until babies start getting born?