September 29, 2020
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Although the Catholic Church has condemned Marxism, communism, and socialism from the beginning, a surprising number of people who call themselves Catholic identify with these ideas.
America Magazine 2019 essay “The Catholic Case of Communism.” Even some orthodox Catholic intellectuals seem to think it necessary to dig up Marx’s writings because there may be truth among the garbage.
Marx’s philosophy represents a war against existence itself (in his words, “a ruthless critique of all that exists”), and it is quite difficult to find a single grain of unsullied truth in his writings. Besides that fact, there are other reasons to avoid this. . If philosophy is truly a search for wisdom, we should care about the private lives of philosophers. Marx was a very evil man. He showed complete disdain for his fellow citizens, was a violent racist, despised God and religion, was a total hypocrite when it came to money, and was always contemptuous of his family and acquaintances.
Beyond that, there is a distinct sense that there is something demonic about Marx’s personal life. Those who knew him closest consistently described him in demonic terms. His son wrote to him “dear devil,” his father suggested that he was “controlled by the devil,” and Engels called him “the monster of ten thousand.” Demons.”
Marx himself was possessed by the devil and wrote poems and plays about characters who made pacts with the devil and accepted their own damnation. He continued to tell his children the bedtime story of the man who sold his soul to the devil. (Marx’s two daughters would die in a suicide pact with their husbands, who, like their father-in-law, were also atheistic revolutionaries.)
In this episode, author Paul Kengor devil and karl marxdiscusses this evidence (thoroughly footnoted) of the devil in Marx’s life. What motivated this man to harbor such hatred that he called for “ruthless criticism of everything that exists,” including religion?
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[3:03] range of devil and karl marx
[10:36] A picture of Marx as seen by those closest to him
[15:23] Marx’s lifelong “ruthless criticism of everything that exists” begins with religion.
[26:33] Satanic themes in Marx’s early literary works
[30:57] The promise of suicide in Marx’s literature and the lives of his children
[37:56] Walter Duranty and Aleister Crowley
[41:55] Marx’s personal behavior regarding money, family, and friends
[47:41] The error of separating philosophy from personal life
[52:29] “Mere stages”?: Why Marx’s early writings are relevant to his later writings
[55:18] Pedants’ denial that Marxism exists in modern movements
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Paul Kengor devil and karl marx https://www.tanbooks.com/the-devil-and-karl-marx.html
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