Posted on 02/16/2017 4:26:26 PM PST by OddLane
When Karl Marx died in March 1883, only about a dozen people attended his funeral at a cemetery in London, England, including family members. Yet, for more than a century after his death – and even until today – there have been few thinkers whose ideas have been as influential on various aspects of modern world history. Indeed, as some have said, no other faith or belief-system has had such a worldwide impact as Marxism, since the birth of Christianity and the rise of Islam.
Marx’s critique of capitalism and capitalist society has shaped much of the social thinking in Western countries that led to the welfare state and extensive government intervention into economic affairs. And it served as the ideological banner that inspired the socialist and communist revolutions of the twentieth century – beginning in Russia in 1917 and still retaining political power today in such countries as Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, and China...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA2lCBJu2Gg
Stefan moleneux - the Truth About Karl Marx
a very good listen!
And in our own Rat Party over the last 40+ years.
I’ve seen material depicting an interest Marx had in satanism.
I've traveled to about a half dozen socialist/Communist countries in my life."Cesspool" doesn't even begin to explain what I saw in every one of them.
It is good. Worth the listen.
Capitalism is but a tool.
What it’s used to glorify makes all the difference in the world. “Use the mammon of unrighteousness to make friends for yourself, that they may receive you into heavenly dwellings.”
Marx presented a false dichotomy. He asked whether capitalism was bad, and answered yes.
That’s the wrong question to ask. The question to ask is whether, and how, capitalism can be used to good or bad ends.
Ayn Rand, an atheist herself, managed to come up with a robust defense that capitalism lent itself very well to good ends. She asked obvious questions such as, would we rather serve at the crack of a whip, or at the offer of a dollar?
I’m unabashedly Christian, but wanted to make a comment about how badly put questions (the LDS Joseph Smith’s question about “which human institution is the real church” is another such question) will lead us into terrible answers.
See “Was Karl Marx A Satanist?1976”
by Richard Wurmbrand
Marx was a loser who couldn’t manage his finances and blamed The Man for it.
Dunno, but he sure came up with a devil of a philosophy!!
I don’t even know if that was true, but he sure didn’t think squat of the blessings of the Man Upstairs.
It might have helped if he’d taken a bath once in a while.
He’d be right at home as a professor in one of our elite universities.
Karl Marx smelled bad, and lived in his parents basement.
I also suspect that Jenny von Westphalen was a very abused wife. Always seemed to put up with Marx’s constant unemployed status; Engels was Karl’s only friend who bailed him out financially (rich dad).
As long as there is an exchange of goods and services for other goods and services you have capitalism.
Socialism/communism is just a scam to reestablish hereditary aristocracy that was the norm throughout history until 1776.
His philosophy stunk worse and lurked in even worse places.
Formal theologians could doubtless come up with explanations like envy, greed, sloth, and the like. But that’s only an indirection in the end for the lack of love and the profusion of hate that comes from rejecting God.
Sin radiates out much destruction.
Even the aristocracy had SOME idea of a market, even if it thought itself to be beyond it all. Many a poor man rejoiced at a large order of something from an aristocrat.
This is worse. Aristocracy without any real aristocrats!
He was a lazy piece of garbage.
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