Joe Kahn shares a name with my grandfather, a Manhattanite who put himself through night school to get his CPA and literally helped defeat Hitler by doing accounting for the Army.
He (my grandpa Joe) was radicalized at Fort Bragg basic training, where the Jewish New Yorkers stuck together for protection against the hillbillies.
So a bunch of working class brainiacs (who had, as you might guess, thought a LOT about how money is used by power) introduced my granddad to Das Kapital.