Marxism and Eschatology

Worldview Weekend ^ | 4/6/2015 | Mark Musser

[Olympiad Fisherman]

While modern leftist academics routinely mock the Judeo-Christian apocalypse prophesied in both the Old and New Testaments (Joel 2; Isaiah 24; Matthew 24-25; 2 Thessalonians 1-2; Revelation 6-19) as something only a deranged literalist could entertain in his own fundamentalist mindset, they remain completely unaware that their most important leftist forefather, Karl Marx, was a false prophet of secular fundamentalism and profane eschatology ...

[jjotto]

Sometimes those who are not familiar with Marx assume that he had Jewish influences despite his Lutheran upbringing, but his Messianic views actually had a different source. Marx’ teacher Bruno Bauer was an acknowledged Biblical scholar of the Higher Criticism school.

[Fred Nerks]

The Truth About Karl Marx

(fat person writes diet book)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA2lCBJu2Gg

[jjotto]

Marx was cranky from almost-incurable boils on his posterior that kept him from sitting down much.

[Fred Nerks]

And after his aristocratic wife’s money ran out and his relatives stopped supporting him and his starving family, he lived off funds given to him by a wealthy industrialist.

[Olympiad Fisherman]

Very interesting. Yes, Marx’s eschatology was primarily borrowed from Hegel’s secularized form of historical evolution.

[Jim Robinson]

Bump

[JGT]

Eric Voegelin wrote some profound works on “immanentizing the eschaton,” or eschatology, esp. in his book “Science, Politics, and Gnosticism.”