Karl Marx is Alive and Well in 2024 America

May 29, 2024
Karl Marx is alive and well in 2024 America

By Vince Coyner

Marxism was easily the most destructive political theory ever to be put into practice. Over the course of the 20th century, it was responsible for purposefully killing well over 100 million people. To put that evil into context, the slave trade into the United States was 400,000 people, the number of Congolese dead during the reign of King Leopold II of Belgium is estimated as high as 10 million, and the total number of deaths during WWII was 73 million. But communism beats them all combined. And most of those numbers came from governments killing their own citizens! I mention all of this because the father of Communism, Karl Marx, has been on my mind lately.

Marx was a despicable human being. It’s often said that he never had a job in his life. That’s not technically true. Although he had a doctorate, his radicalism kept most universities from hiring him. He was a writer and editor for several publications, most of which went bankrupt because no one was reading them or were shuttered by governments seeking to quell what they saw as sedition. He wrote for the New York Daily Tribune for a decade and later for the New York Sun. None of these jobs paid particularly well or consistently (other than the Tribune), and what they did pay Marx often spent on alcohol and tobacco.






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Marx’s family lived in poverty and debt his entire life and, often, they went hungry and were evicted several times. This was despite Marx having received substantial inheritances from his parents and taking numerous “loans” from friends. He fathered at least seven children with his wife, but only three survived to adulthood, in part due to the family’s poverty and its consequent malnutrition. But Marx never once took a job that would economically support his family and give them sufficient sustenance. In reality, Marx spent most of his adult life supported by his friend, co-author and de facto vassal, Friedrich Engels, the son of a textile manufacturer.

Aside from being a hypocrite, arrogant, condescending, and violent with words and sometimes deeds, Marx was also a slovenly man. He drank to excess, smoked, and almost never bathed. A German spy, after visiting Marx, reported, “[Marx] leads the existence of a Bohemian intellectual. Washing, grooming and changing his linen are things he does rarely, and he is often drunk.” He was a racist and an antisemite as well, despite his Jewish heritage (his father converted to Christianity for political and economic reasons).

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HawkTheSlayer wrote:May 29, 2024
Karl Marx is alive and well in 2024 America

By Vince Coyner

Marxism was easily the most destructive political theory ever to be put into practice. Over the course of the 20th century, it was responsible for purposefully killing well over 100 million people. To put that evil into context, the slave trade into the United States was 400,000 people, the number of Congolese dead during the reign of King Leopold II of Belgium is estimated as high as 10 million, and the total number of deaths during WWII was 73 million. But communism beats them all combined. And most of those numbers came from governments killing their own citizens! I mention all of this because the father of Communism, Karl Marx, has been on my mind lately.

Marx was a despicable human being. It’s often said that he never had a job in his life. That’s not technically true. Although he had a doctorate, his radicalism kept most universities from hiring him. He was a writer and editor for several publications, most of which went bankrupt because no one was reading them or were shuttered by governments seeking to quell what they saw as sedition. He wrote for the New York Daily Tribune for a decade and later for the New York Sun. None of these jobs paid particularly well or consistently (other than the Tribune), and what they did pay Marx often spent on alcohol and tobacco.






Image courtesy of Vince Coyner

Marx’s family lived in poverty and debt his entire life and, often, they went hungry and were evicted several times. This was despite Marx having received substantial inheritances from his parents and taking numerous “loans” from friends. He fathered at least seven children with his wife, but only three survived to adulthood, in part due to the family’s poverty and its consequent malnutrition. But Marx never once took a job that would economically support his family and give them sufficient sustenance. In reality, Marx spent most of his adult life supported by his friend, co-author and de facto vassal, Friedrich Engels, the son of a textile manufacturer.

Aside from being a hypocrite, arrogant, condescending, and violent with words and sometimes deeds, Marx was also a slovenly man. He drank to excess, smoked, and almost never bathed. A German spy, after visiting Marx, reported, “[Marx] leads the existence of a Bohemian intellectual. Washing, grooming and changing his linen are things he does rarely, and he is often drunk.” He was a racist and an antisemite as well, despite his Jewish heritage (his father converted to Christianity for political and economic reasons).

Read more:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/karl_marx_is_alive_and_well_in_2024_america.html

We are heading towards Marxism now. This election is do or die for our country.

hurricanehook wrote:We are heading towards Marxism now. This election is do or die for our country.

LOL, that's what right-wingers say every four years. And wouldn't you know it, the sun keeps shining and the birds keep singing. Things still suck enormously, no matter who is in power. Probably because the two-party system is a scam. Both sides promote the same thing; it's just that one side openly supports it, while the other pretends to be against it, but pushes it through anyway while the sheeple are distracted with Faux News.

Americans are never going to rid their nation of Marxism via elections. The American Revolution did not take place at the voting booth.

It took 13 years before Americans were ready to take up arms  prior to First War for Independence.

And right wingers do not say that every election..    HOWEVER, the proof was in the pudding in the 2016 election when the left had a collective Cow.

These idiots have to learn the hard way.

And forty years from now, another batch of idiots will AGAIN idolize this idiocy...even as people are fighting out of it in what had once been the USA.

I despair of the human condition. We're too stupid for modern society.

When history is absent from education for decades...........

You can thank my posts all you want, Sprint, but I don't want it. I'm not commenting for your sake.

I heartedly disagree. Communism failed epochly. A far greater threat is Fascism. It was put together by Italian Giovanni Gentile and of course improved and put into practice by Mussolini. Too bad our AntiFa folks are unaware of this. AntiFa was originally started by the USSR in the 30's. They thought Fascism was capitalistic in nature. It is to an extent, as the state does not own heavy industry. Under social the state owns the major sectors. Under communism it owns all means of production. Our first step in this direction was the Patriot Act, the 2nd, Fraudulent Consumer Agency, and 3rdly The Affordable Care Act. Today we don't call it Fascism, but "Crony Capitalism". This is where the major players get together, bribe legislators to pass legislation that is so onerous only the big guys can afford it.
I recall an idiot on Quora stating how fining banks several billion dollars was a good thing. The monkey didn't realize, corporations or government entities do not pay fines or taxes, ever. They pass these off to the middle class in the name of "fees". That is why banks no longer pay interest on savings accounts and some even charge fees for accounts less than $500.00

JMWinPR wrote:
I recall an idiot on Quora stating how fining banks several billion dollars was a good thing. The monkey didn't realize, corporations or government entities do not pay fines or taxes, ever. They pass these off to the middle class in the name of "fees". That is why banks no longer pay interest on savings accounts and some even charge fees for accounts less than $500.00

People don't realize that corporations really don't pay taxes, per se. They simply pass the "tax" cost on to the consumer.

These little nazis, these little fascists scream and point fingers at us yelling nazi! Fascist!!  And they don't even realize that they are the epitome of nazi/fascist.  Their actions, their violence, their destruction, their words, their tactics, their 'uniforms'...black, masks,  sticks, homemade bombs, mass produced signs, tents, bricks.

Lafayette Park...across from White House.

Today and yesterday...drive cops out...no arrests today. Friends of Biden FoB