[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.

[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.

[GeronL]

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

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

[Slyfox]

The Truth about Marx:

[Fungi]

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

[AllAmericanGirl44]

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