Posted on 04/16/2018 1:11:59 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Workers installed a 5.5-meter (18-foot) statue of Karl Marx in Trier’s city center on Friday ahead of celebrations to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth.
The huge bronze figure was mounted atop a pedestal right in front of the former Marx family home, but it won’t be unveiled to the public just yet. That spectacle has been reserved for his birthday on May 5. […]
The 2.3 ton statue was a present from the People’s Republic of China — a fact that has fueled plenty of debate in the community in recent months.
“The glorifying Marx monument is a poisonous gift from China,” said Ulrich Delius, director of the Society for Threatened Peoples, adding that it was “sad,” that the city had accepted a statue from a government that “commits state terror against its own people.”
Dieter Dombrowski of the Union of Victims’ Associations of Communist Tyranny called the gesture “bizarre.” Marx was “not just a scientist and philosopher,” he said. He also “laid the spiritual foundations for the communist dictatorships that came afterwards.” …
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...put them next to each other.
Well, Marxists sure aren’t going to apologize for their ideology and its depredations.
Seattle, too.
Marx got his ideas from such luminaries as Hegel and “Gracchus” Babeuf.
Yeah, I’m sure they all shared ideas and were enlightened on their own opinions. So they preferred the term “intellectual” while referring to themselves. How modest. One of my teachers in college was a big fan of Karl Marx and called himself a socialist. But it was best not to debate him on any subject if you wanted a passing grade. It’s really power they all crave, not the truth.
Do the democrats have Karl Marx statue in their chambers?.
Hegel’s most (in)famous dictum is “the rational alone is real”. Of course, the biggest thing the left took from this is that what cannot be perceived beyond the material universe has to be irrational; hence they claim God’s nonexistence on such a supposition.
Hegel also was a champion of the dialectic method (not bad in and of itself, where thesis and antithesis strive to achieve synthesis, although Immanuel Kant claimed that the Greeks employed it as “the logic of illusion”), which Marx pushed into the primarily materialistic sphere (starting with false premise).
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