It's about becoming the oppressor.
Why are they going all out to celebrate Karl Marx?
Is this yet another political statement often made, to the effect that the theories of Marx are wonderful, it was just the implementation by a series of despots and tyrants which gave socialism and communism a bad name????
Godless totalitarianism, what could possibly go wrong?
“distorted his theories to their own ends.”
Oh yeah, it’s always “THEY JUST DIDN’T DO IT RIGHT”.
“But WE WILL!”
This is why this bastard is still being celebrated - the constant foolhardy belief that somehow, someone will make it work.
Herr Dombrovski has the right idea.
I wonder what kind of commemorations German —and American — universities will have.
Trier is a beautiful little city to visit. Very close to the French border. They have a lot of Roman ruins that date back to something like 500 ad to include a Roman gate, baths and even a coliseum where they had gladiator fights. Now we have another reason to visit, to throw eggs at the Karl Marx statue....
Marx is proof that if you have a crappy-enough idea, human beings are stupid enough to flock to it.
It helps though if your idea advances murder and totalitarianism.
He’s responsible of the killing and misery of more people than anyone in history. Quite a legacy.
Without Marx there would have been no Hitler.
Hitler’s birthday was last week. Are they celebrating that too?
Marx become an advocate of mass murder and dictatorship in place of liberal democracy and social peace.
www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/karl-marx-was-pretty-bad-person
On January 31, 2018, Mark Levin destroyed Marx’s philosophical foundation in his opening monologue. He picked over the rotting bones of Hegel and then ground them to dust.
All patriots and anti-communists should listen to it and recall that “the goal of socialism is communism” - Lenin
“arguing that Marx cannot be blamed for regimes which distorted his theories to their own ends. …”
For leftists, facts and reality mean nothing, they spew falsehoods and always claim it’s truth, no evidence or corroboration needed. What’s disgusting is that they can always count on the lying media as a megaphone.
Right - since the theoretical end state of a Marxist society is peace and human actualization, if you don't have peace and human actualization you must have implemented the theory wrong. QED.
Or the theory is a crock of crap. Could be.
Germans ought to be proud their ancestors kicked Marx out of Germany.
Marx found refuge in England, where he lived out his days.
Some examples of his work, are found in N. Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, USSR, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx
Groucho was a genius; Karl.... not so much.