Karl’s long-suffering wife was crushed. Books, Features, Interview “And why even of yourselves, do you not judge that which is just?” Jesus Christ, Luke 12:57, No, I want to know everything about the person who is proposing a new philosophy, a new belief, an orientation. But that’s hardly the case (for example, see my 2018 interview with Dr. Kengor about leftist ideology aimed at marriage and the family). He gave most persons an impression of intellectual arrogance. But if in Germany the empirical and scientific tradition in philosophy lay dormant, in France and England in the middle of the 19th century it was very much alive.…, Hegel was a conservative, but his influence on the revolutionaries. They would prefer to condemn anti-communists rather than condemn pro-communists. And the source of your information is…what/whom exactly? Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life – Jonathan Sperber. Paul Kengor: Those who make that claim exhibit profound ignorance. Real Name. He kept away from the congresses of the International where the rival socialist groups debated important resolutions. Character and actions mean a great deal. And if Dr. Kengor or anyone else had rendered judgment on the final state and judgment of Marx’s soul, well, that would be a problem. They will scream until they’re blue in the face about gender theory, queer theory, critical theory, “intersectionality,” you name it. Karl Marx had a lot of ideas on a lot of topics, particularly about the nature of political power, the importance of collective action, the debt any governing body owes to its own citizens. Karl Marx. Marx was often portrayed by his followers as a scientist rather than a moralist. Paul Kengor: I deal with that very carefully, and why Marx’s hagiographers have studiously avoided it. He believed that workers should not be paid less than the product they are creating is worth. At least he didn’t molest a bunch of little kids while pretending to speak for god. Is this the case, according to your findings? Tabernacle of God and the Word! This is a considerable number and socialist views have been making a steady comeback after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989. Why does Marx get a pass? CWR: Why do you think we hear so little about the atrocities of communism? Short summary describing this character. TEDx Talks Recommended for you Paul Kengor: This is a major part of the book, and perhaps one of the most halting sections of the book for churchgoing Christians. A precocious schoolchild, Marx studied lawin Bonn and Berlin, and then wrote a PhD thesis in Philosophy,comparing the views of Democritus and Epicurus. Bigot–he’s not the one who persecutes, what, “people of religion”; and It isn’t pretty. CWR: Why was the Roman Catholic Church so vehemently against communism, opposing this lethal ideology, even before the publication of the Communist Manifesto in 1848? The contradictory emotions Marx engendered are reflected in the sometimes conflicting aspects of his character. Why? "A brilliant book, by a superb author, about a necessary man. No need to waste time on someone who has never lived by the principles that he/she teaches. In a recent book entitled The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism’s Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration, Dr. Paul Kengor, professor of political science at Grove City College and senior director and chief academic fellow at the college’s Institute for Faith and Freedom, provides a sophisticated and well-documented analysis of communism by going to the source: Karl Marx. Due to his political publications, Marx became stateless and lived in exile with his wife and children in London for decades, where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels and publish his writings, researching in the reading ro… If they’d like, they can grab a highlighter and start highlighting passage after passage and quote after quote in my book underlining examples. What utter nonsense! It’s nearly impossible for that to not be the case. Paul Kengor: It has prompted me to write many books on the subject, and countless articles. And, really, the approach here is to say, “Having witnessed a century (and more) of evil, violence, and murder because of communism, let’s take a deeper look at the inner and outer life of the foundational communist thinker.”. This nursemaid was Marx’s contact with the working class, providing free labor and free sex. Karl Marx (5 May 1818 - 14 March 1883) was a political theorist who conceived of the idea of communism and outlined it in The Communist Manifesto. False premises lead to a multitude of wrong destinations. But attacking, or even truthfully pointing out the character flaws of the founder of an ideology to support the viewpoint that that ideology is flawed (or evil, or demonic, etc.) Karl Marx is a German philosopher who is widely recognized as the most important theorist of socialism in history. Put the other way, if the founder of the Church was a violent, nasty, brutish, hateful figure, don’t you think things would have been a bit different the past 2,000 years? I do not hazard to assess whether Marx was, say, possessed, though others have. However, the judgment of his behavior and the damage it caused is the responsibility of all disciples of Christ, just as He exhorted. Karl Heinrich Marx was the oldest surviving boy of nine children. In this sense, Marx’s mode of analysis, like those of Thomas Malthus, Herbert Spencer, or Vilfredo Pareto, has become one of the theoretical structures that are the heritage of the social scientist. Marx’s two surviving daughters committed suicide in joint suicide pacts with their husbands. The expropriators are expropriated.”. If we’re just going ad hominem, we should add that his hair and beard were messy. Marx supported violent revolution as the means to ensure social progress. Karl Marx was an idealist. Why let your personal political prejudices show your bigotry. Thank you. He remained the eternal student in his personal habits and way of life, even to the point of joining two friends in a students’ prank during which they systematically broke four or five streetlamps in a London street and then fled from the police. Causing some desperate parents to even sell their dead children to eat; cannibalism. Sad, Indeed — We have been infiltrated with the Smoke of Satan for many years. CWR: Marx is considered to be a racist and anti-Semite. He did claim, however, to have proved that each phase in the development of production was associated with a corresponding class structure and that the struggle of classes led necessarily to the dictatorship of the proletariat, ushering in the advent of a classless society. In Marxist philosophy, a character mask (German: Charaktermaske) is a prescribed social role that serves to conceal the contradictions of a social relation or order. Marx’s masterpiece, Das Kapital, the “Bible of the working class,” as it was officially described in a resolution of the International Working Men’s Association, was published in 1867 in Berlin and received a second edition in 1873. If Dr. Kengor and others only relied on analysis of Marx’s personality and life to attack Marxism, then you’d have a fair point. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: letters to Americans, 1848-1895;: A selection by Karl Marx: Karl Marx and the development of his work: 1818-1841 by Michael Heinrich: Karl Marx on India: From the New York Daily Tribune Including Articles by Frederick Engels and Extracts from Marx-engels Correspondence 1853-1862 by Iqbal Husain Your email address will not be published. In this stunning book, the first comprehensive biography of Marx since the end of the Cold War, Francis Wheen gives us not a socialist ogre but a fascinating, ultimately humane man, while still examining the criticisms of … Karl is the mysterious guardian angel of Homer. Who said this? Emboldened by those successes, communists then went after the Roman Catholic Church in the 1930s, specifically via Communist Party USA’s so-called “outstretched hand” effort. For about 20 years I’ve traveled around the country giving talks on campuses with titles like, “Why Communism Is Bad,” sponsored by the likes of the wonderful Young America’s Foundation. He lamented to Engels: “My wife, alas, delivered a girl and not a boy.” He later lamented to one of his daughters, who likewise gave birth to a girl: “I congratulate you on the happy delivery…. Paul Kengor: I find this so ironic. Marx believed in a revolution that would end socialism and capitalism, and focus on communist principles. None of them had played much, so we decided to be pretty loose about everything. Why do they have aspirations and ideals that Marx would find repugnant? The economic categories he employed were those of the classical British economics of David Ricardo, but Marx used them in accordance with his dialectical method to argue that bourgeois society, like every social organism, must follow its inevitable path of development. Karl is one of the very few citizens of Springfieldwho emits such a powerful ‘purity’. It is flatly and factually incorrect and utterly and wholly indefensible. Stalin? Sometimes he seemed to know that he was accomplishing works of evil.” Read my book and you’ll get an exhaustive walk through all of that ugliness. “There were times when Marx seemed to be possessed by demons,” recorded Robert Payne in his seminal 1968 biography of Marx—probably the best and most insightful biography of Marx. Very little is known of his prior life, yet establishes himself very early as a confident mentor who seemingly dedicates himself to the growth of Homer’s abilities and confidence. How did communist ideology infiltrate into Roman Catholic seminaries? It would ultimately be more productive to logically point out the flaws of the ideology and not the person(s) associated with it. I recommend the article, “A Conservative’s Revisionist History Aims at Marx – and Misses the Mark” by Cameron Hilditch in National Review, Sept. 3. I have not delved too deeply, yet already it is evident this is a work about more than the “character flaws” of Karl Marx, but the deeply flawed and diabolical tenets if Communism and its impact on the world to this day. Paul Kengor: I believe so. The Young Karl Marx (2017) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Why do cultists such as Jim Jones have such avid followers? Marx’s particular judgment was rendered by Jesus Christ. This is also true of Donald Trump!”. He was determined not to let bourgeois society make “a money-making machine” out of him, yet he submitted to living on the largess of Engels and the bequests of relatives. Karl Marx. The judgment of Marx himself is reserved for a higher jurisdiction. Beyond ruthless criticism, there was ruthless abolition. So when is Antifa/BLM going to start destroying the statues of Herr MArx? John Knox, He went to no demonstrations, his wife remarked, and rarely spoke at public meetings. I recently wrote an article asking why our wondrous progressives in the cancel culture haven’t canceled Karl Marx. Your contribution will help us continue to make CWR available to all readers worldwide for free, without a subscription. He was a great reader of novels, especially those of Sir Walter Scott and Balzac; and the family made a cult of Shakespeare. CWR: According to a 2020 Gallup poll, 45% of Americans say they would vote for a socialist for president. Another pop quiz. And obviously, the Roman Catholic Church would disagree with them. They didn’t listen. Religion is to be eradicated, because it debilitates and opiates the proletariat. You say I “avidly demonize” Marx. I agree. The most important lesson from 83,000 brain scans | Daniel Amen | TEDxOrangeCoast - Duration: 14:37. This has been reported over the years (very sloppily so) regarding the organizing efforts of ex-communist and Catholic convert Bella Dodd, who, it has been claimed, attempted to place “over a thousand communist men” in Catholic seminaries. This is also true of Donald Trump! Was she capable? Payne, a man of arts and literature, not a right-winger, and a respected academic not expected to level such a shocking charge lightly, asserted of Marx: “He had the devil’s view of the world, and the devil’s malignity. I’ve watched and warned that the post-Cold War generation was not learning the lessons of the Cold War and of the destruction of communism and socialism and this latest twaddle that bills itself as “democratic socialism.” I’ve observed the numbers climb yearly in support of these ridiculous philosophies, and I’ve pleaded with people (especially parents, and particularly Catholic-Christian parents) not to send their kids to these awful secular universities. “The Israelite faith is repulsive to me,” said Marx. CWR: Marx denied his daughters an education and careers. The German revolutionary socialist Karl Marx was also a philosopher, economist, sociologist, and journalist. In his seminal edited volume on Karl Marx and religion, Saul Padover said that Marx represented “what the Germans call Selbsthass (self-hate), a trait which Karl Marx displayed throughout his … Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox.

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