The Heart of Marx

 

We have been reading Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ and it is obvious that a powerful and ruthlessly evil intelligence was behind this slaughter of over fifty million Russian innocent people. How does a country recover from that? Solzhenitsyn’s book totally exposed this evil for what it was in a way that the USSR could not slip out of. Their ideology was finally seen for that it was. Nowadays this book is mandatory reading for Russian adolescents (at least we have been led to believe that) in order that it never happens again (at least in Russia). Communism is waxing in other places so it is certainly important that we get to the root cause. Let us inspect the heart of one of the original thinkers of this doctrine, Karl Marx.

Over 200 years ago, Karl Marx was born (5 May 1818) in the Prussian city of Trier, Prussia, into an Ashkenazi Jewish family. Karl's father, Herschel Marx, was a lawyer and his mother, Henrietta Pressburg, was a semi-literate Dutch Jew. He was the third of the nine children born to his parents and was baptized in the Lutheran Church. How might Karl have felt as a Jew having to perform as a Christian? How coerced was this for himself and his siblings?

In 1830 Karl Marx attended Trier Gymnasium ‘secondary education’ and then in 1835 he enrolled at the Bonn University as a law student. To do this, he was adequately supported financially by his father. In the summer of 1836, Karl was engaged to Jenny von Westphalen in Trier. He then enrolled at Berlin University to continue law and pursue philosophy, with a strong interest in Hengel.

While still a student Marx had begun to express his deeper self through his poetry, “I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above”.

From the poem ‘Invocation of One in Despair’ are the words:

So a god has snatched from me my all

In the curse and rack of destiny.

All his worlds are gone beyond recall!

Nothing but revenge is left to me!

I shall build my throne high overhead,

Cold, tremendous shall its summit be.

For its bulwark – superstitious dread.

For its marshal – blackest agony.

Who looks on it with a healthy eye

Shall turn back, deathly pale and dumb

Clutched by blind and chill mortality.

May his happiness prepare his tomb.

From another poem written during his student years, “The Player”:

The hellish vapours rise and fill the brain,

Till I go mad and my heart is utterly changed.

See this sword?

The prince of darkness sold it to me.

For me he beats the time and gives the signs.

Ever more boldly I play the dance of death.

The purchase of a sword from Satan and its cutting to spill blood is listed as part of a satanic rite. At this stage, Karl would be in too deep to easily return to what is good and wholesome.

From the poetic drama of his “Oulanem”:

(Act 1, Scene 2)

Yet I have power within my youthful arms

To clench and crush you [i.e. personified

Humanity] with tempestuous force,

While for us both the abyss yawns in darkness

You will sink down and I shall follow laughing,

Whispering in your ears, ‘Descent,

Come with me, friend.’

 (Act 1, Scene 3)

Ruined, ruined. My time has clean run out

The clock has stopped, the pygmy house has crumbled.

Soon I shall embrace eternity at my breast, and soon

I shall howl gigantic curses on mankind.

The above references are drawn from: Marx, Karl und Friedrich Engles, Historisch-kritisch Gesamtausgabe. Werke, Schriften, Briefe. (Complete Historical Critical Edition. Works, Writings, Letters) on behalf of the Marx-Engles Institute, Moscow, published by David Rjazanov. (Frankfurt-am-Main: Marx-Engles Archive, 1927), from the pages ranging from 30-68.

What Marx reveals in the imagery of his youthful poetry (which soon discontinues) is that he made a critical turn into Satan’s hands while still a student at the university. He believed God was real enough but set out to punish God for reasons unclear. The words above feel as though it is Satan not Marx writing them and they make much more sense when read that way.

A letter (2 March 1837) from Karl’s father reflected a growing concern: “Your advancement, the dear hope of seeing your name someday of great repute, and your earthly well-being are not the only desires of my heart. These are illusions I had for a long time, but I can assure you that their fulfilment would not have made me happy. Only if your heart remains pure and beats humanly and if no demon is able to alienate your heart from better feelings, only then will I be happy.” (ibid., p. 203)

This father to son letter was too little and too late. Karl wrote to his father later that year (10 November 1837): “A curtain has fallen. My holy of holies was rent asunder and new gods had to be installed.” (ibid., 218) He was obviously very reluctant to admit to his father that the new gods were Satan and his legion.

The following year, 10 May 1838 his father died. Marx graduated with a doctorate in philosophy in 1841, then late in 1842 he first met Engels. They then work together to sow discontent in German and French society. In the course of their lives they create a counter-productive narrative, exploiting ever-present injustice. Through Moses Hess, who introduced the socialist ideal, Marx and Engels saw in it a way of destroying religion and politics. That was it! Socialism was to be the bait to entice intellectuals to embrace Satan’s perpetual agenda of destroying God’s creation.

It is clearer now! The Communist Manifesto carries with it an aggressive anti-Christian doctrine, which in the case of Russia slaughtered over fifty million innocent people (one hundred million souls as an upper estimate). Marx’s heart, through his poetry, exposes the origin of this sinister plot. Christians for their part, once self-stripped of the trappings of materialism (pride and the like), will find ways to live the socialist ideal, applying truth and equality to all and still preserve individual sovereignty and respect. That is the very ideology that Satan fears.

So we are in a cycle of needing to share some hard truths about Marx as the devil’s elect servant and the importance of never letting the history of the Russian ‘experiment’ fade. History will repeat itself on a people who forget. Posted with prayerful care.