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The Notorious Karl Marx
Marx’s Apologists Should Be Red in the Face:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/marxs-apologists-should-be-red-in-the-face-1525388258?shareToken=st1d1a98710a4d4e46a3c8c6da7b3d4a37&reflink=article_email_share
(Paul Kengor) May 5 marks the bicentennial of Karl Marx, who set the stage with his philosophy for the greatest ideological massacres in history. Or did he?
He did, but deniers still remain. “Only a fool could hold Marx responsible for the Gulag,” writes Francis Wheen in “Karl Marx: A Life” (1999). Stalin, Mao and Kim Il Sung, Mr. Wheen insists, created “bastard creeds,” “wrenched out of context” from Marx’s writings.
Marx has been accused of ambiguity in his writings. That critique is often justified, but not always. In “The Communist Manifesto,” he and Friedrich Engels were quite clear that “the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: abolition of private property.”
My Commentary: Communism is the number one most deadly form of the nightmare called government.
