The Truth About Karl Marx (video)

GoogTube ^ | 11JAN2014 | Stefan Molyneux

[FredZarguna]

One of the things that has gone down the memory hole is that Marx was also a failed mathematician. He wrote an absolutely hilarious proof that a sequence of continuous functions must converge to a continuous limit function [it does not.]

His proof involves appeals to "forces of nature," which even by the standards of the early nineteenth century were not considered rigorous. So he decided to become a "philosopher" instead. From time-to-time Russian and the occasional Chinese mathematician tried to argue that he was "essentially correct." Eventually they decided it was probably better not to talk about his mathematical career at all.

[dfwgator]

Hegel's followers were all in varying degrees anti-Semitic, and in 1843 Bruno Bauer, the anti-Semitic leader of the Hegelian left, published an essay demanding that the Jews abandon Judaism completely. Marx's essays were a reply to this. He did not object to Bauer's anti-Semitism; indeed he shared it, endorsed it and quoted it with approval. But he disagreed with Bauer's solution. Marx rejected Bauer's belief that the anti-social nature of the Jew was religious in origin and could be remedied by tearing the Jew away from his faith. In Marx's opinion, the evil was social and economic. He wrote: 'Let us consider the real Jew. Not the Sabbath Jew ... but the everyday Jew.' What , he asked, was 'the profane basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly cult of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly god? Money.' The Jews had gradually spread this 'practical' religion to all society:

Makes you wonder why Hitler hated Marxists so much.

[Jack Hydrazine]

ROFLMAO!!!

[thecodont]

One of the things that has gone down the memory hole is that Marx was also a failed mathematician. He wrote an absolutely hilarious proof that a sequence of continuous functions must converge to a continuous limit function [it does not.] His proof involves appeals to "forces of nature," which even by the standards of the early nineteenth century were not considered rigorous. So he decided to become a "philosopher" instead. From time-to-time Russian and the occasional Chinese mathematician tried to argue that he was "essentially correct." Eventually they decided it was probably better not to talk about his mathematical career at all.

Thanks, I did not know this!

[Tired of Taxes]

I read that Karl Marx believed in Hegelian dialectics, but that Marx was an atheist who declared that “man is the highest being” for man, and, in his time, socialists believed only atheists could be true socialists. So, I’m surprised to read this theory that he was a Christian.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Nazism was just another form of collectivism like Marxism.

[Jack Hydrazine]

He was Jewish, then Christian, and then either became an atheist or a satanist.

[GeronL]

wrote the young Marx , '... We are the apes of a cold God.'

That doesn't sound like a "passionate Christian" to me.

[GeronL]

Makes you wonder why Hitler hated Marxists so much.

Because they were his competition for the same crowd of radical followers

[GeronL]

Nothing in original post supports the idea that he was a Christian

[dfwgator]

Like I always said, Nazis vs Commies was like Bloods vs Crips. No real differences between them, except for the uniforms.

[Jack Hydrazine]

See post #8.

[Irenic]

heh :p

[Billthedrill]

Yep. His father was an Ashkenazi Jew converted to Lutheranism. He was originally educated as a Lutheran, came to reject Christianity, and spent most of his life as a professed atheist. This was, after all, the fellow who labeled religion as the “opiate of the masses” although that comment has been misunderstood as an expression of contempt. It was not - his point was that religion served to comfort and anesthetize the masses against their oppressive circumstances. “Passionate Christian”? I don’t know how anyone could get that impression.

[Slyfox]

The Truth about Marx:

[Irenic]

Ah ha! That man doesn't have Bigfoot's body, he has Karl Marx!

[Fungi]

The most important aspect concerning Marx—he never a dime to his credit.

[jjotto]

Well, Horace Greeley, a founder of the Republican Party and backer of Abraham Lincoln, did pay him to write for the New York Tribune (the New York Times of its era) for many years.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

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