📖 Paul Kengor - The Devil and Karl Marx
📖 Paul Kengor - The Devil and Karl Marx
Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration
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Today’s book is:
The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration by Paul Kengor
Two decades after the publication of The Black Book of Communism, nearly everyone is or at least should be, aware of the immense evil produced by that devilish ideology first hatched when Karl Marx penned his Communist Manifesto two centuries ago.
Far too many people, however, separate Marx the man from the evils wrought by the oppressive ideology and theory that bears his name. That is a grave mistake. Not only did the horrific results of Marxism follow directly from Marx’s twisted ideas, but the man himself penned some downright devilish things.
Well before Karl Marx was writing about the hell of communism, he was writing about hell. “Thus Heaven I’ve forfeited, I know it full well,” he wrote in a poem in 1837, a decade before his Manifesto. “My soul, once true to God, is chosen for Hell.” That certainly seemed to be the perverse destiny for Marx’s ideology, which consigned to death over 100 million souls in the twentieth century alone.
No other theory in all of history has led to the deaths of so many innocents. How could the Father of Lies not be involved?
At long last, here, in this book by Professor Paul Kengor, is a close, careful look at the diabolical side of Karl Marx, a side of a man whose fascination with the devil and his domain would echo into the twentieth century and continue to wreak havoc today. It is a tragic portrait of a man and an ideology, a chilling retrospective on an evil that should have never been let out of its pit.
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I read this book a few months ago. It is a must read. Marx was a terrible human being, his exterior, unkept, dirty and disheveled reflected the pit of hell that was his interior life. One can judge the character of a person by how they treat others, and this was spot on as he treated those around him with cruelty and in a most selfish manner. In addition, he was slovenly and lazy to the extreme.
Since he wrote his manifesto in London, it has been surmised that Marx was a vehicle to the ideas that were more widely shared by a few influential people at the time, and I would suggest that his ideas were as convenient and timely for those with grander schemes as were the ideas of Darwin.
The result of putting too much emphasis on the intellect and reason eventually ends with the logic of materialistic utilitarianism that emerged from the Enlightenment and tries to dispense with God and all the moral rules which hold man with proper dignity and grace.
Buy this book. Buy it as a gift for others. It is a history book. It is a religious book. It explains the culture we find ourselves in now.
We allowed it to happen.