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Interpreting "sugar daddy" in a sexual manner says more about you than the usage of the word does about me. (As does remarking on it at all: I don't care whether or not Marx and Engels were in a sexual relationship... do you?)
"Sugar Daddy" implies Marx gave Engels sexual favors in exchange for cash or other goods, housing, etc. That's the meaning of the "Sugar" part of the phrase "Sugar Daddy." You made it sexual, not me. No, I would not have had any issue with them being gay, except for that being cheating in presumably monogamous relationships. I myself am pan, so I don't know what you're doing here.
(Yes, I know Marx was older than Engels - it was a joke, ffs)
Marx was born in 1818. Engels was born in 1820.
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Don't "umm, akshually" me to death, please. /s