Posted on 08/12/2020 4:56:35 AM PDT by Kaslin
Most people who call themselves Marxists know very little of Karl Marx's life and have never read his three-volume "Das Kapital." Volume I was published in 1867, the only volume published before Marx's death in 1883. Volumes II and III were later edited and published in his name by his friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels. Most people who call themselves Marxists have only read his 1848 pamphlet "The Communist Manifesto," which was written with Engels.
Marx is a hero to many labor union leaders and civil rights organizations, including leftist groups like Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and some Democratic Party leaders. It is easy to be a Marxist if you know little of his life. Marx's predictions about capitalism and the "withering away of the state" turned out to be grossly wrong. What most people do not know is that Marx was a racist and an anti-Semite.
When the U.S. annexed California after the Mexican-American War, Marx wrote: "Without violence nothing is ever accomplished in history." Then he asked, "Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it?" Friedrich Engels added: "In America we have witnessed the conquest of Mexico and have rejoiced at it. It is to the interest of its own development that Mexico will be placed under the tutelage of the United States." Many of Marx's racist ideas were reported in "Karl Marx, Racist," a book written by Nathaniel Weyl, a former member of the U.S. Communist Party.
In a July 1862 letter to Engels, in reference to his socialist political competitor Ferdinand Lassalle, Marx wrote: "It is now completely clear to me that he, as is proved by his cranial formation and his hair, descends from the Negroes from Egypt, assuming that his mother or grandmother had not interbred with a nigger. Now this union of Judaism and Germanism with a basic Negro substance must produce a peculiar product. The obtrusiveness of the fellow is also nigger-like."
In 1887, Paul Lafargue, who was Marx's son-in-law, was a candidate for a council seat in a Paris district that contained a zoo. Engels claimed that Paul had "one eighth or one twelfth nigger blood." In an April 1887 letter to Paul's wife, Engels wrote, "Being in his quality as a nigger, a degree nearer to the rest of the animal kingdom than the rest of us, he is undoubtedly the most appropriate representative of that district."
Marx's anti-Semitic views were no secret. In 1844, he published an essay titled "On the Jewish Question." He wrote that the worldly religion of Jews was "huckstering" and that the Jews' god was "money." Marx's view of Jews was that they could only become an emancipated ethnicity or culture when they no longer exist. Just one step short of calling for genocide, Marx said, "The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way."
Marx's philosophical successors shared ugly thoughts on blacks and other minorities. Che Guevara, a hero of the left, was a horrific racist. In his 1952 memoir, "The Motorcycle Diaries," Guevara wrote, "The Negro is indolent and lazy and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent."
British socialist Beatrice Webb griped in The New Statesmen about declining birthrates among so-called higher races, which would lead to "a new social order" that would be created "by one or other of the colored races, the Negro, the Kaffir or the Chinese." The Soviets espoused the same "Jewish world conspiracy" as the Nazis. Joseph Stalin embarked upon a campaign that led to the deaths of Jewish intellectuals for their apparent lack of patriotism. By the way, the Soviet public was not told that Karl Marx was Jewish. Academics who preach Marxism to their classes fail to tell their students that his ideology has led to the slaughter of tens of millions of people. What's worse, they fail to even feign concern over this fact.
White liberals are useful idiots. BLM, Antifa, and other progressive groups use the plight of poor blacks to organize left-leaning, middle-class, college-educated, guilt-ridden suburbanite whites. These people who topple statues and destroy public and private property care about minorities as much as their racist predecessors. Their goal is the acquisition and concentration of power and Americans have fallen hook, line, and sinker for their phony virtue signaling.
Where are the moderate Dem these days? I’m waiting on someone—anyone—with the “old” Dem party to step up and say this is not the Den party.
American leftists follow in the footsteps of Eugene Debs.
“From each according to his ability” is no longer expected.
“To each whatever you have that he wants.”
Yes.
Didn't the Smithsonian publish a similar chart not that long ago?
Somewhat related — a lot of the street protesters identify themselves as Anarchists.
Anarchism is an actual political philosophy that does take many flavors. There have been Anarcho-Capitalists (somewhat like our Libertarians), Anarcho-Christians (Tolstoy), Anarcho-Syndicalists, Anarcho-Communists, etc.
Anarchism, as a philosophy, opposes force and does not want people controlled by a government. Historically, a lot of Nihilists have thrown bombs and carried out assassinations and called themselves Anarchists, but that is not mainstream Anarchism.
The people we see in our streets today want to use a lot of force to establish a powerful central government that will control all aspects of your life. They are not Anarchists, although that’s what they call themselves.
They use terms they don’t understand (Marxism, Anarchism) but all they want is power.
Excuse me , sir, are you a registered Weld County voter?
No, I'm an anarchist.
It's fun seeing the look on theor faces, as I walk away wearing a USMC hat and Grunt Style t-shirt.
Are Today’s Leftists Truly Marxists?
Neither Marx nor Engels came from “the working class” nor truly understood the common “working man”, much less the economics of labor, capital and production.
They were standing members of the elitist intellectual class and being an intellectual is about all either ever did, other than the “business” of publishing intellectual books and treatises. Engels was from a wealthy family, and they did install him in units of their businesses, but he seemed to use them only to advance observations in industry that informed his thinking.
Marx himself never had a job he liked or held for long, and depended on borrowing and the aid of others to support his family. He cared more about his inner thoughts than his own wife and children. From such came the social and economic poison of Das Kapital.
I now realize my prior readings on Marx were insufficient.
Again, Walter Williams enlightens us on history and now shows us Marx’s racist attitudes.
Great post, Kaslin.
Reagan said it long ago, "The Democrat Party left me".
Karl Marx - racist extraordinaire... and hero of 'Black Lives Matter'...
Anyone to the left of center is a Communist.
Anyone who really feels that way has already left the party - usually to become a grumpy non-voter. But Trump can appeal to this group in a way the typical stuffed-shirt RINO cannot.
To be fair to BLM and Antifa, Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton etc. only care about power too. They really don’t care about blacks besides themselves. Of course, same could be said for anyone in activism or politics. Very few truly care about who they champion.
“No, I’m an anarchist. “
I’ll have to start using that here in Longmont. They’re staked out in front of Whole Foods.
Today's Left is simply inverted chrstianity, with J*sus relegated to king of white people and Karl Marx taking his place as king of the BIPOCs.
BIPOC="Black, indigenous, and people of color." How many times did old Karl write about that???
theor. What the hell is that? their.
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