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.
