Alexander McQueen - London boy RIP

Actually almost all of them (original marxists) were secular Jews. It was an ultimate form of rebellion for a hipster young Ashkenazi Jew a hundred or so years ago. It's like becoming Muslim for a West Indian youths or piercing your top lip so you can pose for pictures for your Bebo page while throwing some random gang signs for the Essex girls..

Marxism offered salvation from pogroms but the like Bronstein/Trotsky's family were a bit different...as the were farmers away from the Jewish communities in the Pale of Russia.