Posted on 09/01/2020 1:43:24 PM PDT by Heartlander
Most people who call themselves Marxists know very little of Karl Marx's life and have never read his three-volume "Das Kapital." Volume I was published in 1867, the only volume published before Marx's death in 1883. Volumes II and III were later edited and published in his name by his friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels. Most people who call themselves Marxist have only read his 1848 pamphlet "The Communist Manifesto," which was written with Engels.
Marx is a hero to many labor union leaders and civil rights organizations, including leftist groups like Black Lives Matter, antifa and some Democratic Party leaders. It is easy to be a Marxist if you know little of his life. Marx's predictions about capitalism and the "withering away of the state" turned out to be grossly wrong. What most people do not know is that Marx was a racist and an anti-Semite.
When the U.S. annexed California after the Mexican-American War, Marx wrote: "Without violence nothing is ever accomplished in history." Then he asked, "Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it?" Friedrich Engels added: "In America we have witnessed the conquest of Mexico and have rejoiced at it. It is to the interest of its own development that Mexico will be placed under the tutelage of the United States." Many of Marx's racist ideas were reported in "Karl Marx, Racist" a book written by Nathaniel Weyl, a former member of the U.S. Communist Party.
In 1887, Paul Lafargue, who was Marx's son-in-law, was a candidate for a council seat in a Paris district that contained a zoo. Engels claimed that Paul had "one eighth or one twelfth nigger blood." In an April 1887 letter to Paul's wife, Engels wrote, "Being in his quality as a nigger, a degree nearer to the rest of the animal kingdom than the rest of us, he is undoubtedly the most appropriate representative of that district."
Marx's anti-Semitic views were no secret. In 1844, he published an essay titled "On the Jewish Question." He wrote that the worldly religion of Jews was "huckstering" and that the Jew's god was "money." Marx's view of Jews was that they could only become an emancipated ethnicity or culture when they no longer exist. Just one step short of calling for genocide, Marx said, "The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way."
Marx's philosophical successors shared ugly thoughts on blacks and other minorities. Che Guevara, a hero of the left, was a horrific racist. He wrote in his 1952 memoir, "The Motorcycle Diaries": "The Negro is indolent and lazy and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent."
British socialist Beatrice Webb griped in The New Statesmen about declining birthrates among so-called higher races, which would lead to "a new social order" that would be created "by one or other of the colored races, the Negro, the Kaffir or the Chinese." The Soviets espoused the same "Jewish world conspiracy" as the Nazis. Joseph Stalin embarked upon a campaign that led to the deaths of Jewish intellectuals for their apparent lack of patriotism. By the way, the Soviet public was not told that Karl Marx was Jewish. Academics who preach Marxism to their classes fail to tell their students that his ideology has led to the slaughter of tens of millions of people.
White liberals are useful idiots. BLM, antifa and other progressive groups use the plight of poor blacks to organize left-leaning, middle-class, college-educated, guilt-ridden suburbanite whites. These people who topple statues and destroy public and private property care about minorities as much as their racist predecessors. Their goal is the acquisition and concentration of power and Americans have fallen hook, line and sinker for their phony virtue signaling.
Does it matter to these people?
But he was a communist, so he is excused.
This is why I don’t like this trend of labeling everyone Marxist. These leftists don’t read Marx, nobody takes him seriously. Even Lenin was a revisionist.
These Antifa whackjobs are some mutant strain of Post-Marxism that very little to do with the original ideas of Marx. Ironically, Marx would hate Antifa because they’re Lumpenproletariat who have always been used by the elites to attack the working class, which is exactly what is happening now. Antifa is funded by Corporate America and Wall Street to punish Main Street for supporting Trump.
e was also a parasite, mooching off of his pal Engels, who, in turn, was a bloody effing capitalist and exploiter of proletariat. Bot co-authered the Communist Manifesto.
He was the ultimate self-hating Jew.
I didn’t know they had Democrats back then.
As Dinesh D’sousa says how can one define Marxism without Marxists.
Antifa is an actual manifestation of Marxism, yet you want to separate the definitions of Marxism from Marxists
Yes...I knew that.
There! Ya said it! Truth.
All Antifa happen to be is the “useful idiot” part of that; but no doubt their handlers have brainwashed them using Marx’s teachings indeed.
- Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
- A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
- Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
- Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
- Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
- Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
- Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of wastelands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
- Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
- Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
- Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c, &c.
Marxists, Communists, NAZIs, all cut from the same cloth and ALWAYS results in the same outcome. Violence!
IIRC, it was Engels’ father who was the “capitalist”, and Engels himself mooched off him in turn, really.
If I became a communist, can I be a true racist? Or BLM wouldn't understand how that works and they would want to kill me?
What a coincidence Margaret Sanger was a racist and an anti-Semite too. She is revered by the left.
Speaking of understanding, a good understanding of BLM entails the knowledge that when you refer to BLM you’re referring mostly to white liberals.
If you’re genuinely interested in the ideology of Antifa, then read this.
https://newdiscourses.com/2020/07/complex-relationship-between-marxism-wokeness/
They’re not Orthodox Marxist, nobody is because Marx is as debunked as Freud. This is why you actually see Antifa get into fights with Maoist Red Guard organizations or Stalinist Tankies.
The crazies use Marxist/Leninist _tactics_.
Their ideology is derivative of some Marxist ideas about “equality”—but for sure they don’t care about the working man since they have no intention of working.
They want to be the slave-holders and want the rest of us to be their slaves.
So was Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood. The Eugenists goal was to eliminate all Blacks off the face of the earth.
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