Found this on FB. Great read.
Karl Marx did not create an economic system.
Marxism is a religion for destructive losers. Let me explain.
Marx opens The Communist Manifesto by declaring that "a specter is haunting Europe." He says the powers of old Europe have formed a "holy alliance" to "exorcise" it.
That is not the language of economics.
The Marxist worldview mirrors salvation theology: Capitalism is the fallen world. Revolution is purification. The dictatorship of the proletariat is purgatory. Communism is heaven. He wasn't talking about supply and demand but rather, preaching secular redemption.
Marxists mock the Bible as violent, yet Marx openly calls for terror: "We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror⦠revolutionary terror."
The old world must be destroyed for the new world to be born.
He called for the "ruthless criticism of all that exists." He admired Mephistopheles' line: "Everything that exists deserves to perish." The Manifesto declares its ends can be achieved only through the "forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions."
This is not reform. It's a call for social annihilation.
Now consider Marx the man. In 1837, he wrote: "Thus Heaven I've forfeited⦠my soul⦠is chosen for Hell." His own father asked whether his heart was governed by "a demon." A Prussian police report described a man who drank heavily, rarely washed, was covered in boils, and kept no regular sleep.
He called for the abolition of inheritance while living off family money and Engels for decades. He called for the abolition of the family while his own household fell apart β an affair with the housekeeper, an unacknowledged child, two daughters who would later take their own lives.
Marx hated the world as it was. So he built a doctrine that sanctified destroying it.
The Communist Manifesto (the governmental system) and Das Capital (the economic system) are completely different entities. There are philosophical ties between them, but to say,
and then follow up with a quote from the Communist Manifesto (which wasn't his work of his economic system) is the definition of a strawman argument.
For anyone even slightly interested in the works of Marx, they will trivially see through that faulty argument and give perfectly reasonable reasons to dismiss the whole thing, starting from the first sentence.
For anyone against anything regarding Marx or Communism (pro Capitalist e.g.), they will push their false argument (as is happening here) and push against the "other side." In other words, this argument, from beginning to end, is a false argument DESIGNED TO PUSH DIVISION, not reasonable discourse.
That doesn't mean I think it was intentional. True Believers push the propaganda that drives division from the source without realizing who they are really working for (ultimately created by the same entity on both sides).
The works of Marx (both documents I mentioned here) are much more nuanced and much more worrying than anything pushed by the vast majority "against communism" (including this argument presented in the OP). Most people (on both sides) don't even know what the actual problems are, nor do they understand that the premise of communism is partially true (which is why it sells). They push "Capitalism" which ALSO is only partially true, and ultimately totally false. The "Capitalism" -- "Communism" "axis" is COMPLETELY FRAUDULENT, designed controlled opposition, both missing all the most important parts of the same Truth.
It is not accidental that "Communism" was created by the very top of the Capitalists. It is not accidental that Marx (a top level aristocrat) was rich as fuck and a HUGE capitalist, as was everyone around him. The whole thing, on both sides, is a fraud, from beginning to end. Once you understand that, ONLY THEN can you investigate this issue in earnest. Otherwise you're just spinning the hamster wheel, feeding the fraud on both sides, just as you are intended to do.