I pre-ordered Prof. Kengor’s book and have completed reading it. I unreservedly endorse reading it. Kengor gives a good history and analysis of Karl Marx’s life and his writings. He also covers the post-Marx development of communism through Lenin, Stalin, the “Frankfurt School” of German Communists who fled Hitler’s Germany and became lodged in American academia where they spread their Freudian version of Marx’s doctrine, and finally he touches on communism in the USA and the links to the current Democrat Party and how the Democrat Socialist Party is merely the communism under a nom de guerre.
I’m currently reading the book. I’m at chapter five. It’s the best non-fiction book about politics that I have read in years.
We all march to the beat of one drummer or the other. Marxism is fully under the command of the other.
Marx witnessed and described some bad practices in the early years of industrialization including abusive and/or child labor, etc. Unfortunately, his communist “prescription“ proved to be far worse than the “illness.” And much, most of industrial capitalism’s abuses have been cured from within, thankfully. Anybody supporting communism today is either amazingly lacking in knowledge or else is Seeking to impose the “dictatorship (of the Proletariat)” So that they can become our dictator. Power hungry basturds will lie lie lie, say and do just about anything to grab power Over us for themselves. Even pretend to care about us, “the people.” But if they ever get into power again, Watch our!”