Karl Marx 20/05/13 ff.

Karl Marx  20/05/13 ff.

Karl Marx was known in the 19^th century as the “workmen’s friend”.

Marx believed, after his Theses on Feuerbach of 1842-3, that a man is a product of nurture not nature. He was a materialist of the French school. France has thrown up many intellectual fads and the Germans have adopted a lot of them.

Marx was no friend of the poor. He lambasted those who sought a doctor’s certificate to get into the workhouse, a fate which befell many of the Irish poor in the 19^th century. He could well have benefited from a testimonium pauperitatas  himself given his destitution on arriving in London.

Marx spent a lot of his early life excoriating religion yet it is in religion that the spirit finds its highest consolation. Marx adopted the anti-Semitic views of his new found friends.

Marx considered while travelling in Germany from 1876 to 1878 marriage to a rich old widow who was probably a spy in the German Secret Service.

Marx in his early prose ridiculed the fashionable young, jeunes des gants jaunes, and adopted the staid dress of Freemasons.

More importantly, Marx plagiarised the Factory Inspectors Reports  in Capital. He copied large drafts of the reports of industrial poverty and disease to flesh out his meagre, lifeless prose. He was blind to the fact that these where the work of Liberals and social reformers who would later give birth to the Beveridge Report  and the British Welfare State. The inpectors were factory owners themselves and government officials.

01/11/13

Karl Marx glorified Prussia.He  and his colleague Engels  both took the side of Lutheran Prussia against Catholic Bavaria and Catholic Austria in the mid 1860s war.

Marx talked of capitalists being “hostile friends” (Capital)  but this ignores the reality of price fixing cartels,monopolies and trusts which had developed at every level before he died.

Marx rejected the overtures of a social democratic Crown Prince. He referred to him as Viereck (“Square”). In his famous  CircularLetter to Bracke,Liebknecht and Others (1875) he showed his true nature by excoriating those who accepted punishment as well as “those who desire to teach what they have not learned”.

Marx was easily manipulated by Stieber, the Prussian police lieutenant, Hinckeldey and Engels. He never never had a relationship with Friedrich Engels other than that of financial dependence .

Engels for his part ridiculed charity. Both decried the” pennies to the poor” practice which does more good today in every country than the best developed system of state welfare payments. In Germany 90% of people pay the 1% Church Tax although very few go to their churches regularly.

Marx in his early writings accused small shop keepers of “tyranny” while his family were fed and clothed by the goodwill of small shopkeepers who gave credit in Soho from 1848 to 1852.

Marx made some strange friends through his letters to The Times. These included the anti-Semite founders of the Social Democratic Federation, Hyndman, Bax and Morris and the Conservative MP Urquhart. Proof If proof were needed that when a devil goes out of a house it brings back seven worse devils than itself after travelling across dry, arid ground…

 

03/12/13 and 04/12/13

Marx complained about “generalized want”. However, this was in actual fact the reality of life in the Soviet Union under his diabolical disciples. Poverty is a permanent phenomenon of society.

Marx took great umbrage at “promoters”. He showed his anti modern nature by complaining about natural phenomena such as advertising which emerged in the 1840s.

His modern day followers should take note of his railing against homosexual prostitutes watching and besetting his Soho lodgings in 1852 (The Cologne Communist Trial)

In modern times his followers allude to Catholic believers as “trying to set me drunk” in reference to priests drinking blessed wine at Mass.

Stalin. His main apologist in the 20^th century was described as “a grey blur in the revolution” by independent critics and writers. His arch enemy Trotsky whom he had murdered was described as “the most capable man in the party” by the arch revolutionary and founder of the Russian Bolshevik Party, Lenin. The man described by Lenin as” the darling of the Party”, Bukharin, was murdered by Stalin in 1938.

Perestroika. Attempts  to renovate Stalinism with factory committees in the 1980s  ignored the fact that these committees were responsible for most of the deadly denunciations in1938 (Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago,1970).

30/11/13

Lenin once wrote “Karl Marx did not provide recipes for the revolutionary cake shops of the future”. Yet in Capital Marx wrote of the managerial class making capitalists irrelevant and providing the means of socialism.

Thus Marxist paradigm was used by Lenin after the 7^th of November 1917 to run the Russian economy on the model of nationalised trusts until April 1918 when it became clear that Russian exports were 0.5% of 1913 levels and the economy had collapsed, resulting in mass starvation.