The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism’s Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration - Paul Kengor
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Two decades after the publication of The Black Book of Communism, nearly everyone is or at least should be, aware of the immense evil produced by that devilish ideology first hatched when Karl Marx penned his Communist Manifesto two centuries ago. Far too many people, however, separate Marx the man from the evils wrought by the oppressive ideology and theory that bears his name. That is a grave mistake. Not only did the horrific results of Marxism follow directly from Marx’s twisted ideas, but the man himself penned some downright devilish things. Well before Karl Marx was writing about the hell of communism, he was writing about hell.
“Thus Heaven I’ve forfeited, I know it full well,” he wrote in a poem in 1837, a decade before his Manifesto. “My soul, once true to God, is chosen for Hell.” That certainly seemed to be the perverse destiny for Marx’s ideology, which consigned to death over 100 million souls in the twentieth century alone.
No other theory in all of history has led to the deaths of so many innocents. How could the Father of Lies not be involved?
At long last, here, in this book by Professor Paul Kengor, is a close, careful look at the diabolical side of Karl Marx, a side of a man whose fascination with the devil and his domain would echo into the twentieth century and continue to wreak havoc today. It is a tragic portrait of a man and an ideology, a chilling retrospective on an evil that should have never been let out of its pit.
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This post has 22 comments with rating of 4/5
August 21st, 2020
It’s quite funny how Marx got demonized in modern right-wing propaganda. He’s one of the most important fathers of modern economy, and most of his concepts are so widely accepted that people using them don’t even bother to learn where they came from. Fighting against Marx is like fighting against Arabic numerals in schools.
Marx wrote the communist manifesto as a side gig. It was not even as much his manifesto, as a job he was paid to do for other people. He even liked to say that he may be many things, but he’s definitely not a Marxist.
Marx was mostly describing his own times. And this description was extremely accurate. It wasn’t even especially novel since insane disproportions in income, poverty worse than in modern Africa, and overpopulation in cities was obvious and it had to lead to an upheaval. Roles of labor and capital he described, are the foundation of modern capitalism. The phenomenon he called a class is real, and dynamics between classes have been the major motor of political struggle everywhere in the world for the past 2 centuries, since physiocracy was first abolished by mercantilism, and then by unbridled capitalism. His description of monopolies is the basis for all modern anti-trust laws. All the social nets that are just a normal fact of life in all civilized countries, have their roots in Marx’s analysis.
Is there any other point for demonization of this scholar other than pure propaganda? Even description of this book sounds like a rather low-brow religious sermon. His name has become an insult. Especially for half literate people who have never read a single word he wrote. Read Der Kapital and judge for yourselves, instead of dabbing in this 2 minutes of hate in a form of a mad preacher’s ramblings.
August 21st, 2020
Thank you fine Sir!
August 22nd, 2020
@Silesian - and I believe that his only known weakness was Kryptonite.
August 22nd, 2020
Communism is the opium of Marxists
August 22nd, 2020
Marx never worked. He was supported by Engels, whose family was wealthy.
If Marx had Kryptonite, it was work of any kind. Much like the Democrat youth of today.
Silesian-And yet you chose to live in America. Leave, and go to the “workers paradise”. Marx’s only contribution to the world was to bring death to millions. His basic premise was that the State was inherently rational. Didn’t work out that way.
August 22nd, 2020
That Marx dood was livin’ the dream - too bad it became everyone else’s very real nightmare.
August 22nd, 2020
@Silesian - judging from your avatar name, you and your people (?) should know better to come out with an asinine comment like that!
All the older country’s names such as Silesia, Poland, Ukraine, other Slavic countries such as Bohemia and Russian ALL suffered under the Communists!
I know my history and the history of Slavic nations. My heritage is Central European Slavic.
If ‘Marxism’ is so bl00dy marvelous - go move there and shoot off your mouth…see where it gets you.
@Caesar, Cogent and Apollo - Very well said!!
August 23rd, 2020
spaniel1 Did you read what he said at all?
I really don’t know much about Marx as a person so I can’t comment on that but I think you should re-read what Silesian actually said.
I have no clue if it was true or not but I might point out that no one has ever come close to implementing pure communism, about the closest I know of was Jonestown and that was only about ~1000 people, and it still very much had a formal leadership structure. Not to mention how it ended.
I say that because the authoritarian socialist states that we associate with communism only share the state owned corporations with communism. That’s like saying fascism and capitalism are the same because corporations are both privately owned. My point is that’s a broad brush stroke. Clearly they are not the same although you can make a strong case that the USA is democratic fascist state today. Basically an example of left wing fascism.
If we could achieve true communism that would be amazing. No government, everything is free and shared equally, everyone doing their part to those ends. The problem is as long as there are limitations on resources it’s just a fairy tale and something to ponder.
August 23rd, 2020
@apollo60
I’ve been to USA once. On a trip. It was kinda nice but also pretty boring. And rather expensive.
Why do you think I live in America? Did you think that Silesia lies in Alabama or something?
@spaniel1
You really should try to read my comment again. Marx was long dead before first communist appeared in my country. It’s like blaming Niels Bohr for Chernobyl. Or like blaming Darwin for phrenology.
Again, Marx was not even a Marxist. Marxism is a doctrine that was born out of delusional mentality combined with lust for power.
@ccreader
The thing is that we cannot achieve communism because it’s not a system that people might want to live in. Just like with capitalism, communism is its own biggest enemy. It comes from the fact that people are animals and we employ survival strategies typical to the animal world.
In every population, there are individuals that value cooperation the most. These individuals dominate in times of crisis. Backing down pays up when everyone backs down. They could build communism if they were in a vast majority. But in reality, social dynamics will always change and when such individuals are in majority, the survival strategy of aggressive exploitation becomes dominant. And this happened in reality. “True” communists were almost instantly subdued by authoritarian socialists. Every single time. Always. And this will never change. When most individuals back down, the few aggressive ones will dominate for almost no cost.
Similar thing happens in capitalism. Every capitalist system that is not limited by statist legislature, will sooner or later turn into oligopoly of several monopolists in their fields. That’s why we have all the anti-trust legislation, and we limit concentration of resources. Free market, just like communism, is just a purely theoretical system that cannot emerge in real world, even though it became something of a religious dogma. There’s always inequality of capabilities and information, which will cause unregulated markets to crumble under themselves, and will result in a lot of externalization of costs. Not to mention that creation of markets, even very imperfect ones, in areas such as education or health care especially, is pretty much impossible.
This is a topic for a long discussion encompassing economy, history, zoology, statistics, game theory and a few other subjects. We won’t be able to have it here.
And yeah, limit of resources. The thing about needs is that they are uncapped. More always equals better, even if the marginal gain is negligible. As long as humans are humans, utopian concepts like communism will remain in the field of fairy tales.
August 23rd, 2020
@Silesian
you seem to be making a fairly reasonable argument, though it’s obvious that you really don’t know what you’re talking about. I very much doubt you’ve read Das Kapital (Das not Der). You seem to just regurgitating a few pseudo-facts you’ve read on a blog.
But never mind that - why are you making these long posts on a(nother) book you’ve never read?!?
How about listening to this and few other books then giving an informed opinion? Because right now you’re just wasting everyone’s time.
August 23rd, 2020
Jonestown is a magnificent metaphor for the Marxist mincing machine.
Phrenology preexisted Darwin.
August 23rd, 2020
Notice that every time Marxism results in catastrophic failure - which is every time, of course - there is then a panicky, confused, sweaty attempt to “rebrand” the entire, failed project. Ironic, given that the whole “rebranding” effort is supposed to be a “capitalist” vice.
August 24th, 2020
Looks interesting. I just finished reading Marxism by Thomas Sowell. That Marx never worked a day’s labor in his life, and was financially dependent while maintaining a servant maid as a mistress is quite telling.
August 24th, 2020
@Meekrob
Yeah, it’s been some time since I had anything to do with German. And der, die, das is good only for kapusta mit kwas ;)
Still, as someone with PhD in economics, who’s also had first had experience with so called “communism” due to unfortunate neighborhood with Russians, I dare to say that I know what I’m talking about. Alas, that’s the best refutation of ad personam points one could offer.
August 24th, 2020
That old tired ‘real Marxism was never tried / accomplished / established’ is long past the best before date. I can read. I read what silesian said and rejected it.
I still maintain caesar’s and Jiminy’s comments are valid and much better said than I could:
Caesar: “Notice that every time Marxism results in catastrophic failure - which is every time, of course - there is then a panicky, confused, sweaty attempt to “rebrand” the entire, failed project. Ironic, given that the whole “rebranding” effort is supposed to be a “capitalist” vice.”
Jiminy: “Looks interesting. I just finished reading Marxism by Thomas Sowell. That Marx never worked a day’s labor in his life, and was financially dependent while maintaining a servant maid as a mistress is quite telling.”
September 2nd, 2020
Right wing garbage. Now commies are satan. Got it *rolls eyes*
September 3rd, 2020
@Silesian
The old ‘relentless tyrant will always win, but isn’t marxism sorta useful.’
Spoken like a true, ruthless communitarian. No true Scottsman BS coming from the ‘clueless’ account. Along with naturalistic fallacy, ‘the future will always be this way because the past has been that way’coming from the other. You are aware that humanity has transformed throughout history, right? Events, capabilities have taken place at certain times that would’ve been unimaginable, or in the least considered impossible in preceding periods. We will either get over Communitarianism, or more and more Ghislaine Maxwells, Jeffrey Epsteins, Les Wexners, Jonathan Pollards etc etc will bring our extinction. Awfully arrogant to peer into the future and think you know the entire potential of organic life- and equally as boring to imply ruthless socialists and capitalists are the best nature has to offer.
September 8th, 2020
ccreader, If we had wings we could fly but humans aren’t made that way.
September 15th, 2020
‘Marx was a Satan worshiper’ is some pretty galaxy-brain retardation, even for Kengor.
October 16th, 2020
Awful book from Paul Kengor. Sad.
February 9th, 2021
Seems to me like most Marxist apologists tend to rely on an appeal to purity in defence of their ideological bias. For a fuller explanation of what I mean, I’m going to lazily copy and paste something from Wikipedia that’ll better explain it than I can….
No true Scotsman, or appeal to purity, is an informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect their universal generalization from a counterexample in an ad hoc fashion by tautologically excluding the counterexample. Rather than abandoning the universal generalization or providing evidence that would disqualify the counterexample, this fallacy involves offering a modified generalization to definitionally exclude the desired specific case and counterexamples like it by appeal to rhetoric as opposed to an objective criterion. This rhetoric takes the form of emotionally charged but nonsubstantive purity platitudes such as ‘‘true, pure, genuine, authentic, real, etc.’’
February 15th, 2021
@ccreader fascism much like communism has central control over production. The creators of fascism wrote a manifesto explaining right off the top that their ideas were built off of what they thought communism’s natural progression would have to be. They believed in central planning, progressive tax, lowering retirement age, minimum wage for workers, etc. In practice much like communism it turns into a dictatorship. They are two sides of the same coin.
In America everyone complaining about the pitfalls of capitalism inevitably talk about businesses that have a state backed monopoly. Everyone complaining about the pitfalls of socialism inevitably talk about too much state control. Luckily for the government most of us haven’t put together we both have issue with the same group of people…the state.
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