The Porta Nigra in Trier.
Conservatives will recognize the Porta Nigra in the logo of Regnery Books. The Regnery family is from Trier.
Posted on 04/30/2018 8:04:15 PM PDT by doug from upland
Edited on 05/01/2018 4:09:06 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
SEOUL, South Korea — On May 5, 1818, in the southern German town of Trier, in the picturesque wine-growing region of the Moselle Valley, Karl Marx was born. At the time Trier was one-tenth the size it is today, with a population of around 12,000. According to one of Marx’s recent biographers, Jürgen Neffe, Trier is one of those towns where “although everyone doesn’t know everyone, many know a lot about many.”
Such provincial constraints were no match for Marx’s boundless intellectual enthusiasm. Rare were the radical thinkers of the major European capitals of his day that he either failed to meet or would fail to break with on theoretical grounds, including his German contemporaries Wilhelm Weitling and Bruno Bauer; the French “bourgeois socialist” Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, as Marx and Friedrich Engels would label him in their “Communist Manifesto”; and the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin.
Well, the NYT is officially out of the closet now.
Another reason for NOT celebrating Cinquo de Mayo.
It might take a few years, but they are hanging themselves.
Without Marx there would never have been Hitler.
A “bourgeois socialist” is that like a fully-clothed stripper?
Marx was undisciplined. The rest of him was a result of it.
It’s been tried and tried and tried and marxism fails every time. How many people have to die? Over one hundred million already. Is that not enough? Yet idiots still believe it is the path to utopia. It is not. It is the path to hell.
Karl Marx spent a lot of time in British libraries reading Adam Smith. Why? Because he wanted to know all about capitalism so that he could figure out how to smash it to pieces.
It’s the ultimate Sisyphean political exercise, and so utterly unnecessary and deadly.
“Marx’s conviction that capitalism has an inbuilt tendency to destroy itself remains as prescient as ever.”
To add to this delicious itony, the article was wirtten by a South Korean!
(Well, he was probably desperate for a check so it had to be an article the NYTimes would like...)
Of course, sanity dictates you must find something to rebuild from what has been destroyed, or you just sit perpetually in ruination. Which is, of course, Marxism in practice and outcome.
Isn’t it interesting that the marketing people have made pseudo-holidays out of the birthdays of Karl Marx (Cinco de Mayo) and Lenin (Earth Day)?
The only thing I’ll be celebrating on Saturday is Derby Day.
Ah, the tired old myth of stateless communism, or how all these Marxtards manage to delude themselves that the various gulag states weren’t exactly what their revolution was to produce.
The revolution never stops because it represents a rebellion against human nature, not just human culture. Said nature being entirely unsuited to stateless fantasies. But recall that Marx was enthusiastic about Darwin and realize that if there is natural selection then so too could there be unnatural selection to breed Man-like communist brings who though they shared physical appearance with humanity that could not live en masse as stateless communist they would not share the the same spirit, or have the same humanity.
Untold generations of soviet States, of gulags and every oppression imaginable to replace men — or as C.S.Lewis might have said: to Abolish Man — were just what Marx would approve of.
Along the way things like Lysenkoism weren’t weird missteps but more of the same, deriving madness from madness this ideology sought to make socialist nature to go with socialist man ... a fake nature for a fake humanity.
Marx was hip to the horrors he would spawn. He might have thought they would be achieved easier, but he knew that untold tyrannies had to happen before his materialistic fairy story could even have a chance at happening.
What a crock of crap. Marx died before the book was done and never did get around to detailing how communism would work and Engles wasn't smart enough to finish the book with the answers. History is strewn with the wreckage of societies that have tried communism, from New Harmony to modern-day Venezuela, and it simply won't work because a free man only expends effort when he feels that effort is justly rewarded.
Conservatives will recognize the Porta Nigra in the logo of Regnery Books. The Regnery family is from Trier.
The societies of ants, termites, and bees are examples perfect communist societies. Each member of the society knows it's place in the society, and contributes exclusively to the success of that society, programmed by instinct to dedicate it's life to the success of the society.
"Unfortunately," humans and their feelings towards their offspring just don't allow for a perfect communist society.
Mark
It was tried by the pilgrims before Marx was even a stain on humanity. Limbaugh talks about it often. Didn’t work for the pilgrims or since. Won’t work now.
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