This article focuses on showing details about their lives, explaining how their personalities reflect on Marxism and their followers. I am using the book The Naked Communist by W. Cleon Skousen , which is an amazing read. I could not resist writing about the similarities between the wretchedness of the creators of the ideology with that of their followers. Whatever is in quotes is a direct citation, whatever is not, is mine and/or an indirect citation from the book. Just wanted to share this info because it is good to know the nature of our enemy. Also, by Marxist, I am both talking about Classical Marxists and Cultural/Social Marxists and left wing people in general.
Right on Chapter 1, Skousen starts with one the things that most annoys me when Marxists talk about their founders, the vision that they were virtuous.
Marx was born in Treves, Germany, to a family whose males on both sides were outstanding scholars and distinguished rabbis. However, his father took the family away from the synagogue and became an attorney. This, some biographers credit, is the reason for Marx's rejection of religion, as ir happened when he was 6 years.
In elementary school, Marx was a quick and bright scholar. But, he could not keep a friend.
Some of his letters to his parents were very emotional and revealed he really cared for them.
But still, many of his parents’ letters to him complain of his egoism, his lack of consideration for the family, his constant demands for money and his discourtesy in failing to answer most of their letters. I seriously think that the mellow hearted latters were just so he could ask for money after.
By 1835, he had joined a tavern club, ran himself deeply into debt and almost got expelled from the University of Bonn(where he was studying Law) for “ nocturnal drunkness and riot. He had a bad academic performance and threatened to become a professional poet instead of a lawyer. In 1836, he fought a duel and was wounded over the eye. The University of Bonn then forced Marx to transfer to another university, the elder Marx agreed and so he went to Berlin.
So far, what do we have so far? A man who can not keep a friend since he was a child, whose own family calls him egotistical and uncaring, who indebted himself and was sustained by his father’s money. Sounds like a toxic person.
His father wanted him to be a lawyer, but he wanted to explore philosophy. I think this really rings a bell, all those losers who choose formations without proper marketable skills or who drop out college altogether to discover themselves. The fact that Marx was doing the equivalent of his time is one of the reasons his ideas have a lot of appeal with his modern-day followers.
His dissertation theme was: “The Difference between the Natural Philosophy of Democritus and of Epicurus.” In which he favored the Epicureans’ materialism, because it allowed for an energizing principle in matter. He thought that if matter were auto-dynamic, there would be no need for a Creator. For his dissertation’s motto, he chose the cry of Prometheus “ In one word- I hate all the gods!”
Skousen says that during this time of his life, his thoughts were dominated by three things: his desire to discover aphilosophy of nature; his desire to completely repudiate all forms of religion; his desire to win the hand of the daughter of Baron von Westphalen.
In Berlin, he became a Hegelian, close to a left wing ground bound on destroying Christianity. His associates published books to discredit Christianity, and Marx and one of them, Bruno Bauer, would go on to publish a Journal of Atheism, except that they lacked the resources and the magazine never went to print.
In 1841, Ludwig Feuerbach published his Essence of Christianity, on which he ridiculed Christianity and argued that man was the highest form of intelligence in the universe. Of course, this idea had a lot of appeal to Marx, who was an arrogant and megalomaniacal person since childhood and also had written a similar idea for a doctorate thesis. Skousen says:
But the government cracked down on this anti-christian campaign and so Marx fled to Jena, where he received his degree of doctor of philosophy in April 1841.
Still, the Prussian authorities cracked down of Marx for a pamphlet he had written with Bauer and he was assured he would never teach anywhere in Germany.
He made it clear he wanted to be a revolutionary, it probably had the same appeal to women that the starving artist had/has. Incredibly, they got married in June 1843, how the hell did her father allow that? Marx was unemployed, which he would be for all of their married life, also, Skounsen says he “never acquired the slightest comprehension of the responsabilities which a husband assumes as the head of the family.” Still, Jenny remained loyal to Marx, under circumstances which would have crushed a weaker woman. I guess that women always reward bad men no matter what, their family will get fucked up, it really gets worse.
A biographer states:
THIS MAN LADIES AND GENTLEMAN! This is the man that people want to follow for economic advice. A man incapable of sustaining his own family, who never, ever, had a honest day of work in life. Again, another parallel with modern day followers. Marx was an academic, an eternal student, which can be a good thing, but it never is if you do not apply it to the real world. He was all theory and no action, just like today’s Marxists, their lack of contact with reality fully incapacitates them of viewing the world how it is. They do not have a proper job, or are only theorists, and think their doctrine, who comes from a man from similar background, is the answer for the world’s problems. Also, this is the same reason for why Marxism is so appealing to youngsters, their limited contact of reality renders them blind to it and they fully embrace Marxist ideals as gospel. Marxism comes from ignorance and intellectual dishonesty.
Continuing. Enter Friederich Engels. I must say I guess I disdain this guy even more than Marx. Skousen says:
Engels. Engels was the first caviar leftist, he would go on to preach revolution while sustained by the very own forces that he opposed, as well as trying to sustain Marx. Hypocrisy is an important part of Marxism because its founders were highly hypocritical themselves.
Also, Engels and Marx were similar on that they never had to work on their whole life and both had contempt for the capitalistic system, Engels because of his father and Marx because he felt he was impoverished by it. Engels was also a Hegelian, fucking Hegel and his Phenomenology of the Spirit.
Admire! Engels, unlike Marx, had not gone through any extensive university training, therefore he was as ignorant as the masses that follow Marxism nowadays, that’s why he thought Marx was such a genius. Not that you have to go through university to have knowledge, what I am saying is that Engels, like today’s Marxists, had a very limited grasp on subjects such as history, economics, sociology, philosophy, and others; and yet, he thought he had the truth of the universe lined up in a simple way that only him, and Marx, could understand.
Marxists, like Engels, think they know more than they really know, therefore, Engels was the first Marxist in history, because at least Marx was well read.
Marx made a cuck out of Engels, who once again shows to be a spoiled little brat. Engels Senior could have prevented this world if he had not given money to his son. I am kind of joking here, but a lot of evil could be avoided by good parents who do not let their children get involved in such activities as “being communists/socialists”, seriously, just cut their money and teach them the value of laboring to make your own money. It will give them a touch of reality that all Marxists desperately need.
In August 1847, Marx and Engels overtook the “Workers’ Educational Society” in Brussels. In 1848, they were invited by the “Federation of the Just” (later know as the Communist League), to participate in their second congress as representatives of the communist organizations in Brussels. That they did, Skousen says:
The Communist Manifesto stated that International Communism stood for:
1 the overthrow of capitalism
2 abolition of private property
3 the elimination of the family as a social unit
4 the abolition of all classes
5 the overthrow of all governments
6 the establishment of a communist order
To achieve this, the Manifesto was clear about the course of action:
Since their Manifesto, the Marxists have been asking for other people to do stuff for them. Marx and Engels were not the men of revolution, they wanted other people to do it for them while they would administer it. They, like Marxists today, were too weak willed to actually do it themselves, they would never have picked up arms if the time came. The similarities with today never cease to amaze me.
On the nature of a Marxist’s adherence to his ideology:
Easily recognizable attitude that Marxists have today. Try telling them that there are only two genders or that men and women are not equal. Must repeat dogma!
By 1852, Marx was living in London on a one-room apartment in the slums. His nature had cut him from almost all of his former associates, and when the leaders of the Communist League were arrested in Germany, he found himself completely isolated; only Engels remained.
What to expect from a man who wanted to abolish the family unit?
This man let his own children die in the squalor of a slum because he was too stupid to control the spending of the money that was given to him, and because he was too dedicated to his cause instead of getting a job and sustaining his wife and kids.
Just like Marx, his followers keep putting themselves in dire situations because of their own stupidity and lack of real priorities. Marxist governments do the same in a larger scale.
His wife stayed with him until the very end, even after her children were dying around her. The following letter is one of the most disturbing about the life Karl Marx gave his family, it was written by his wife, Jenny.
What does Marx do about this? Let’s see: First he got 160 pounds from his uncle, this was very big sum of money at the time. Instead of using this to pay his debts and give his family better conditions, he went on a trip around Germany and had drinking excursions with old friends, had himself photographed and visited his mother. When he got home, Jenny was horrified to find out that almost nothing remained of the money.
As in all the cases with Marxist parents, the children were the most affected:
In 1881, Jenny, his wife died. Thirteen months later, his favorite daughter, also Jenny, suddenly died. Engels said that after that, Marx was as good as dead. He died 2 months later.
Skousen then says it all with this:
Marxists are truly the offspring of Karl Marx. They are naturally as pathetic as the man himself, being a Marxist is only a matter of consequence to them. Being pathetic ensures being a Marxist.
Right on Chapter 1, Skousen starts with one the things that most annoys me when Marxists talk about their founders, the vision that they were virtuous.
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We shall try to present their lives in the way the Communists present them- not as the soft, visionary social reformers which so many text books seem anxious to describe, but rather as the tow-fisted, power hungry revolutionists which their closest followers found them to be.
Marx was born in Treves, Germany, to a family whose males on both sides were outstanding scholars and distinguished rabbis. However, his father took the family away from the synagogue and became an attorney. This, some biographers credit, is the reason for Marx's rejection of religion, as ir happened when he was 6 years.
In elementary school, Marx was a quick and bright scholar. But, he could not keep a friend.
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Biographers claime he was too intense, too anxious to dominate the situation, too concerned about personal success, too belligerant in his self-assertiveness, to keep many friends.
Some of his letters to his parents were very emotional and revealed he really cared for them.
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“ (…) perharps, in direct touch with you, to show the profound affection, the immensurable love, which I have not always been able to express as I should like; in the hope that you, too, my fondly and eternally loved Father, bearing in mind how much my feelings have been storm-tossed will forgive me(..)
But still, many of his parents’ letters to him complain of his egoism, his lack of consideration for the family, his constant demands for money and his discourtesy in failing to answer most of their letters. I seriously think that the mellow hearted latters were just so he could ask for money after.
By 1835, he had joined a tavern club, ran himself deeply into debt and almost got expelled from the University of Bonn(where he was studying Law) for “ nocturnal drunkness and riot. He had a bad academic performance and threatened to become a professional poet instead of a lawyer. In 1836, he fought a duel and was wounded over the eye. The University of Bonn then forced Marx to transfer to another university, the elder Marx agreed and so he went to Berlin.
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It was at the University of Berlin that the intellectual forces in karl Marx became sinews and the whole pattern of his life began to take shape. Although he complied (…) and studied law, it was a half-hearted camouflage to cover up his avid exploration of philosophy. In the middle of this exploration, his father died and he immediately came out in the open with his announcement that he would seek an academic career. He wanted to occupy a chair of philosophy at some university.
So far, what do we have so far? A man who can not keep a friend since he was a child, whose own family calls him egotistical and uncaring, who indebted himself and was sustained by his father’s money. Sounds like a toxic person.
His father wanted him to be a lawyer, but he wanted to explore philosophy. I think this really rings a bell, all those losers who choose formations without proper marketable skills or who drop out college altogether to discover themselves. The fact that Marx was doing the equivalent of his time is one of the reasons his ideas have a lot of appeal with his modern-day followers.
His dissertation theme was: “The Difference between the Natural Philosophy of Democritus and of Epicurus.” In which he favored the Epicureans’ materialism, because it allowed for an energizing principle in matter. He thought that if matter were auto-dynamic, there would be no need for a Creator. For his dissertation’s motto, he chose the cry of Prometheus “ In one word- I hate all the gods!”
Skousen says that during this time of his life, his thoughts were dominated by three things: his desire to discover aphilosophy of nature; his desire to completely repudiate all forms of religion; his desire to win the hand of the daughter of Baron von Westphalen.
In Berlin, he became a Hegelian, close to a left wing ground bound on destroying Christianity. His associates published books to discredit Christianity, and Marx and one of them, Bruno Bauer, would go on to publish a Journal of Atheism, except that they lacked the resources and the magazine never went to print.
In 1841, Ludwig Feuerbach published his Essence of Christianity, on which he ridiculed Christianity and argued that man was the highest form of intelligence in the universe. Of course, this idea had a lot of appeal to Marx, who was an arrogant and megalomaniacal person since childhood and also had written a similar idea for a doctorate thesis. Skousen says:
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Marx had bluntly said "it is necessary to recognize as the highest divinity, the human self-consciouness itself!”
But the government cracked down on this anti-christian campaign and so Marx fled to Jena, where he received his degree of doctor of philosophy in April 1841.
Still, the Prussian authorities cracked down of Marx for a pamphlet he had written with Bauer and he was assured he would never teach anywhere in Germany.
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Now the revolutionary spirit flamed high in Marx, somehow he must start a movement to remake the world. However, to succeed in such a task he felt he must have the companion ship of Jenny von Westphalen, daughter of a German aristocrat(…). For seven years he had corresponded with her. (…) Said he: “Jenny! If we can but weld our souls together, then with contempt shall I fling my glove in the world’s face, then shall I stride through the wreckage a creator!”
He made it clear he wanted to be a revolutionary, it probably had the same appeal to women that the starving artist had/has. Incredibly, they got married in June 1843, how the hell did her father allow that? Marx was unemployed, which he would be for all of their married life, also, Skounsen says he “never acquired the slightest comprehension of the responsabilities which a husband assumes as the head of the family.” Still, Jenny remained loyal to Marx, under circumstances which would have crushed a weaker woman. I guess that women always reward bad men no matter what, their family will get fucked up, it really gets worse.
A biographer states:
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“Regular work bored him; conventional occupation put him out of humor. Without a penny in his pocked and with his shirt pawned, he surveyed the world with a lordly air(…).(…) He was ridiculously ineffectual in his economic endeavors to cope with the economic needs of his household and family; and his incapacity in monetary matters involved him in an endless series of struggles and catastophres. He was always in debt; was incessantly being dunned by creditors(…) Half his household goods were always at the pawnshop. His budget defied all the attempts to set it in order. His bankruptcy was chronic. The thousands upon thousands which Engels handed over to him melted away in his fingers like snow”
THIS MAN LADIES AND GENTLEMAN! This is the man that people want to follow for economic advice. A man incapable of sustaining his own family, who never, ever, had a honest day of work in life. Again, another parallel with modern day followers. Marx was an academic, an eternal student, which can be a good thing, but it never is if you do not apply it to the real world. He was all theory and no action, just like today’s Marxists, their lack of contact with reality fully incapacitates them of viewing the world how it is. They do not have a proper job, or are only theorists, and think their doctrine, who comes from a man from similar background, is the answer for the world’s problems. Also, this is the same reason for why Marxism is so appealing to youngsters, their limited contact of reality renders them blind to it and they fully embrace Marxist ideals as gospel. Marxism comes from ignorance and intellectual dishonesty.
Continuing. Enter Friederich Engels. I must say I guess I disdain this guy even more than Marx. Skousen says:
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In many ways Engels was the very opposite of Karl Marx. He was tall, slender, vivacious and good natured. He enjoyed athletics, liked people and was by nature an optimist. He was born in Barmen, Germany (…) son of a textile manufacturer who owned large factories in Barmen, Germany, and in Manchester, England. From his earliest youth, Engels was chafed under the iron discipline of his father, and he learned to despise the textile factories and all they represented. As he matured it was natural that he should have lined himself up with the “industrial proletariat”.
Engels. Engels was the first caviar leftist, he would go on to preach revolution while sustained by the very own forces that he opposed, as well as trying to sustain Marx. Hypocrisy is an important part of Marxism because its founders were highly hypocritical themselves.
Also, Engels and Marx were similar on that they never had to work on their whole life and both had contempt for the capitalistic system, Engels because of his father and Marx because he felt he was impoverished by it. Engels was also a Hegelian, fucking Hegel and his Phenomenology of the Spirit.
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The strange relationship which rapidly developed between Marx and Engels can be understood only when it is realized that Engels considered it a privilege to be associated with such a genius as Marx. Among other things, he counted it an honor to be allowed to assume responsibility for Marx’s financial support
Admire! Engels, unlike Marx, had not gone through any extensive university training, therefore he was as ignorant as the masses that follow Marxism nowadays, that’s why he thought Marx was such a genius. Not that you have to go through university to have knowledge, what I am saying is that Engels, like today’s Marxists, had a very limited grasp on subjects such as history, economics, sociology, philosophy, and others; and yet, he thought he had the truth of the universe lined up in a simple way that only him, and Marx, could understand.
Marxists, like Engels, think they know more than they really know, therefore, Engels was the first Marxist in history, because at least Marx was well read.
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“Please, take it as a matter of course that it will be the greatest pleasure in the world to place at your disposal the fee I hope shortly to receive for my English literary venture. I can get along without any money for now, for my father will have to keep me in funds. We cannot allow the dogs to enjoy having involved you in the pecuniary embarrassment by their infamous behavior.”
Marx made a cuck out of Engels, who once again shows to be a spoiled little brat. Engels Senior could have prevented this world if he had not given money to his son. I am kind of joking here, but a lot of evil could be avoided by good parents who do not let their children get involved in such activities as “being communists/socialists”, seriously, just cut their money and teach them the value of laboring to make your own money. It will give them a touch of reality that all Marxists desperately need.
In August 1847, Marx and Engels overtook the “Workers’ Educational Society” in Brussels. In 1848, they were invited by the “Federation of the Just” (later know as the Communist League), to participate in their second congress as representatives of the communist organizations in Brussels. That they did, Skousen says:
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(they) not only attended the congress but practically took it over. (…) they succeeded in getting the congress to adopt all of their basic views. Marx and Engels were then commissioned to write a declaration of principles or a “Manifest to the World”.”
The Communist Manifesto stated that International Communism stood for:
1 the overthrow of capitalism
2 abolition of private property
3 the elimination of the family as a social unit
4 the abolition of all classes
5 the overthrow of all governments
6 the establishment of a communist order
To achieve this, the Manifesto was clear about the course of action:
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In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!
Since their Manifesto, the Marxists have been asking for other people to do stuff for them. Marx and Engels were not the men of revolution, they wanted other people to do it for them while they would administer it. They, like Marxists today, were too weak willed to actually do it themselves, they would never have picked up arms if the time came. The similarities with today never cease to amaze me.
On the nature of a Marxist’s adherence to his ideology:
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Carl Schurz says: “ I was eager to hear the words of wisdom that would, I supposed, fall from the lips of so celebrated a man. I was greatly disappointed. What Marx said was unquestionably weighty, logical and clear. But never have I seen any one whose manner was more insufferably arrogant. He would not give me a moment’s consideration to any opinion that differed from his own. He treated with open contempt everyone who contradicted him… Those whose feelings he had wounded by his offensive manner were inclined to vote in favor of everything which ran counter to his wishes… far from winning new adherents, he repelled many who might have been inclined to support him.”
Easily recognizable attitude that Marxists have today. Try telling them that there are only two genders or that men and women are not equal. Must repeat dogma!
By 1852, Marx was living in London on a one-room apartment in the slums. His nature had cut him from almost all of his former associates, and when the leaders of the Communist League were arrested in Germany, he found himself completely isolated; only Engels remained.
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From this time on the Marx family lived in London in the most extreme poverty. (…) He confessed in a letter to Engels that the nocturnal tears and lamentations of his wife were almost beyond endurance. Then, in the same letter, he blithely went about explaining how he was spending his whole time studying history, politics, economics and social problems (…).
What to expect from a man who wanted to abolish the family unit?
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In 1852 his little daughter Francisca, died. Two years later marked the passing of his young son, Edgar, and two years after that a baby died in birth.
This man let his own children die in the squalor of a slum because he was too stupid to control the spending of the money that was given to him, and because he was too dedicated to his cause instead of getting a job and sustaining his wife and kids.
Just like Marx, his followers keep putting themselves in dire situations because of their own stupidity and lack of real priorities. Marxist governments do the same in a larger scale.
His wife stayed with him until the very end, even after her children were dying around her. The following letter is one of the most disturbing about the life Karl Marx gave his family, it was written by his wife, Jenny.
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“Let me describe only one day of this life, as it actually was…. Since wet-nurses are exceedingly expensive here, I made up my mind, despite terrible pains in the breasts and the back, to nurse the baby myself. But the poor little angel drank in so much sorrow with the milk that he was continually fretting, in violent pain day and night. Since he has been in the world, he has not slept a single night trough, at most two or three hours. Of late, there have been violent spasms, so that the child is continually betwixt life and death. When thus afflicted, he sucked so vigorously that my nipple became sore, and bled; often the blood streamed into his little mouth. One day I was sitting like this when our landlady suddenly appeared… Since we could not pay this sum (of five pounds) instantly, two brokers came into the house, and took possession of all my belongings- bedding, clothes, everything, even the baby’s cradle and the little girl’s toys, so that the children wept bitterly. They threatened to take everything away in two hours(fortunately they did not). If this had happened I should have had to lie on the floor with my freezing children beside me…”
What does Marx do about this? Let’s see: First he got 160 pounds from his uncle, this was very big sum of money at the time. Instead of using this to pay his debts and give his family better conditions, he went on a trip around Germany and had drinking excursions with old friends, had himself photographed and visited his mother. When he got home, Jenny was horrified to find out that almost nothing remained of the money.
As in all the cases with Marxist parents, the children were the most affected:
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(…) the Marx children bore the scars of their upbringing. When Marx interfered with the courtship of his daughter, Eleanor, she entered a free-love union with Edward Aveling and, following a most wretched existence with him, committed suicide. Another daughter, Laura, married a renegade doctor and later died with him in a suicide pact.
In 1881, Jenny, his wife died. Thirteen months later, his favorite daughter, also Jenny, suddenly died. Engels said that after that, Marx was as good as dead. He died 2 months later.
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(…) six or seven persons followed the casket of Karl Marx to Highgate cemetery in London and there his one abiding friend, Friederich Engels, read a funeral oration. It was the kind of oration Marx would have liked to have heard. It granted him in death what Marx was never granted in life, unequivocal tribute of glowing praise
Skousen then says it all with this:
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Karl Marx projected into Communism the very essence of his own nature. His resentment of political authority expressed itself in a ringing cry for universal revolution. His refusal or inability to compete in a capitalistic economy wrung from him a vitriolic denunciation of that economy and a prophecy that its destruction was inexorably decreed. His deep sense of insecurity pushed him to create out of his own imagination a device for interpreting history which made progress inescapable and Communist millennium unavoidable . His personal attitude toward religion, morals and competition in everyday existence led him to long for an age when men would have no religion, morals or competition in everyday existence. He wanted to live in a classless stateless, noncompetitive society where there would be such lavish production of everything that men, by simply producing according to their apparent ability, would automatically receive a superabundance of all material needs.
Marxists are truly the offspring of Karl Marx. They are naturally as pathetic as the man himself, being a Marxist is only a matter of consequence to them. Being pathetic ensures being a Marxist.