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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Comparing lazy pieces of garbage to Marx is an insult to lazy pieces of garbage. Lazy pieces of garbage deserve an apology.
This was one EVIL bastard.
Horace Greeley, Republican Party founder and publisher of the America’s most influential newspaper, The New York Tribune, employed Karl Marx for ten years.
To do just what?
Mostly commentary on European politics, but also some notable essays on the American Civil War.
http://www.americanheritage.com/content/when-karl-marx-worked-horace-greeley
He was also a parasite, living off the family where he was living.
Oohhh... that cuts a bit close for comfort. But for the grace of God there might go I?
I wonder if being a super Freeper might tempt to the same kind of sin? One is a know it all, so one doesn’t have to actually do squat? (Actually, I know it can tempt that way.)
But a normal Freeper who overdoes it eventually will see the light and return to some kind of balance.
Marx mixed it with a particularly bitter conscience.
Goes to show that a talent, unless rightly used, can be used of evil to produce bitter fruit. God please spare me, you, and everybody else from such a fate.
Yep, every Marxist I’ve ever know has been a hypocritical, narcissistic freeloader.
Yes! Great book and very convincing!
A lot of people may be surprised to learn that Marx was a globalist Free Trader.
BFL
That's the wrong question to ask. The question to ask is whether and how. capitalism can be used to good or bad ends.
In the light of how capitalism eventually proved a wonderful gift to ordinary mortals this is true. The use and proliferation of the electricity system for one. The example of a man like Henry Ford for another. His idea of paying the working man enough to THEY could have a car worked well.
As a native Londoner, I have studied the life of Karl Marx in London. He was given political asylum there from three countries, who wanted to lay their hands on him. This was in Victorian times. I might be excused for speaking for a little understanding of Marx.
Some of the conditions for the working class in England were absolutely horrendous. Cotton Mill workers had a terribly low survival rate. Children worked down mines, including women. So bad was it that Marx could only see the capitalist system in that light.
Just a little ramble here by me, with a soft spot for Marx.
Even with that, he still needed Engels’ help, including with writing articles.
So that excuses his stance on abolishing the family, religion and private property?
Child labor was steadily decreasing long before Marx showed up in London. Engels’ own father owned textile mills, and that’s how Engels got his money, which he was constantly forking out to Marx who couldn’t take care of his own kids.
Your point well taken by me. Of course I do not excuse him for those views. I just have some first hand accounts of the desperate misery of the London poor. My own people came to the East-End of London in 1844. They were not native Irish, but came from County Cork.
It is hard for even a rational human being to think straight in some conditions. Today many people would just do desperate things to survive under those conditions.
(Excuse the sermon .....chuckle)
Well, I do have to congratulate the workers for being straighter thinkers than Marx, who was a spoiled brat from three universities (got his doctorate from Universitat Jena with a thesis on Greek philosophy) and still never held any kind of decent office.
And the movement he gave rise to has been responsible for the deaths of sixty million or so people over the years - also not very nice......
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