three young Europeans of wealthy families (Karl, Friedrich and Jenny) who decided to change this utterly unequal world. And they eventually did; though not the way they imagined it.
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Marx later said he was not a “Marxist” as it was practiced.
Let us always remember the famous words of Marx....
“From each according to his belongings, to me according to my greed.”
Gee, Marx was such a swell guy, wasn’t he? A veritable paragon of family virtues and financial responsibility.
They created a world in which everybody was equal, except that some were much more equal than others.
Marxism has killed millions.
But overthrowing the monarchs was a worthy goal. He grew up in the nasty era of the Prussian empire. And spent most of his life with despots and monarchs at his heels. So he runs to “freedom”, in the England of Charles Dickens and the hellish existence of the workers in the industrial revolution.
He and Engels wrote their book and the rest is history.
His thinking was muddled and most of his answers could be found in America 1.0 but he just couldn’t see it.
But he saw masses of abused European workers who were basically serfs, and some literally were. He saw monarchs that weren’t going to voluntarily go away. He saw a Vatican that was for the status quo.
So you gotta rise up I guess.
Wonder if he had any idea what his movement would turn into. Reading about the dude, it’s hard to imagine he would recognize Pol Pot or North Korea as what he thought would happen.
Sounds like a good topic for a movie, but probably impossible to get right. Some are guaranteed to deify him, and others think he’s Satan incarnate. I doubt anyone will see him as a guy who couldn’t figure out a non violent way to overthrow Europe’s monarchs.
I’ve always thought he would have benefited greatly by visiting America in that golden era.
Many Europeans who did visit have written about being overwhelmed that they could go anywhere, do anything, acquire land, elect the government, etc.
He couldn’t begin to understand the reality of a nation built on individual freedom...his fatal flaw.
Just one more movie to skip ... cannot afford the theater.