What has always stopped me cold when reading Marx is the hatred he expressed towards Jews. It is hard for me to believe in the words of someone who has an irrational hatred.
I do think you are on to something with Lenin, although every other Marxist leader has ended up killing and starving his own people. Maybe following his example.
Enjoy your posts on this subject. I am certainly not an expert on this subject; just a silent witness to history.
miss marmelstein: What has always stopped me cold when reading Marx is the hatred he expressed towards Jews.
Karl Marx was ethnically Jewish.
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Karl Marx was ethnically Jewish. His maternal grandfather was a Dutch rabbi, while his paternal line had supplied Trier’s rabbis since 1723, a role taken by his grandfather Meier Halevi Marx.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx#Childhood_and_early_education:_1818%E2%80%931836
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Actually, Marx struck me as being basically a miserable sort who pretty much hated everything and everybody.