“We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.”..
He was quite a tough guy, dying in safe England in the late 1800s.
Really on the front lines.
Freaking fraud.
He was German and Jewish.
Yet he didn’t have the foresight to see fascism and communism as utterly catastrophic for any country and the world.
Always remember that Marx (and Engels) were some of the biggest anti-semites on the planet. To read their writings on Jews is to really understand the word “creepy.”
Actually, he did have the foresight to see it as catastrophic for the world. Heck, if anything, he banked on it being catastrophic, as he wanted it to be a rehash of Robespierre’s Reign of Terror, and even gorier than it.