The crimes of Karl Marx
Edited by John Kaminski
Excerpted from “Under the Sign of the Scorpion,” by Jüri Lina, pp.
65-72, edited by John Kaminski, pseudoskylax@gmail.com, http://johnkaminski.info/
As a young student, Karl Marx went through a total transformation. He began to hate God. This was something he admitted in his brutal poetry. Two of Marx's poems were published during his lifetime in the periodical Athenaeum in Berlin, under the title "Wild Songs", on the 23rd of January 1841.
But no one cared about his poetry, which had mostly to do with the end of the world and his love for the girl next door, Jenny von Westphalen. In his poems he threatened to revenge himself upon God and time after time expressed his hatred for the world. He vowed to throw humanity into the abyss and follow after with laughter on his lips.
He flung terrible curses at humanity. He did not become an atheist, though. In his poem "Der Spielmann" ("The Fiddler"), he admitted:
That art God neither wants nor wists,
It leaps to the brain from Hell's black mists.
Till heart's bewitched, till senses reel:
With Satan I have struck my deal.
In another of his poems, Marx promised to lure mankind with him into hell in the company of Satan. These words are reminiscent of Jakob Frank's expressions. This shows that Marx was affected by Frankism.
Karl Marx's father had come into contact with Frankism and had also instructed his children in this ideology. This is how young Marx got to know of Frankism, as was mirrored in his poetry. His family's conversion to Christianity was just a social manoeuvre. Jakob Frank himself had done the same, when he became a "Catholic". Frank had, in his turn, followed the dreaded Sabbatai Zevi's example of "changing religion" for the sake of the cause.
Marx was delighted with the idea of humanity's moral ruination. In his poetry, he dreamed of a pact with Satan. He was especially fascinated by violence. Later, in his own ideology, he stressed that one must fight violence with violence. He called humanity "the apes of the cold god". Marx's religion is clearly revealed in his poem "Invocation of One in Despair" (Karl Marx, "Collected Works", Vol. I, New York, 1974):
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.
In his poem "The Pale Maiden" Marx writes:
Thus heaven I've forfeited,
I know it full well.
My soul, once true to God,
Is chosen for hell.
The spirit of these poems was also evident in his "Communist Manifesto" and his later speeches. On April 14th, 1856, he said: "History is the judge, the proletariat its executioner." (Paul Johnson, "The Intellectuals", Stockholm, 1989, p. 74.) Marx found great pleasure in talking about terror, about houses marked with red crosses indicating that the inhabitants were to be killed.
Moses Hess — the Teacher of Marx and Engels
Karl Marx's worship of violence was strengthened by a Frankist communist whom he met in 1841, when he was 23 years old. This man was called Moritz Moses Hess. Moses Hess was born on the 21st of June 1812 in Bonn, the son of a wealthy Jewish industrialist. He died on the 6th of April 1875 in Paris and is buried in Israel. It can be mentioned that he founded the German Social Democratic Party. In "Judisches Lexikon" (Berlin, 1928, pp. 1577-78) he is called a communist rabbi and the father of modern Socialism. Part of Moses Hess' terrifying world of ideas is disclosed in his book "Rome and Jerusalem".
Moses Hess quickly transformed young Marx into a freemason, a socialist agitator and his minion. Marx was still no communist. He wrote in Rheinische Zeitung, which he edited during the years 1842-43: "Attempts by masses to carry out Communist ideas can be answered by a cannon as soon as they have become dangerous . . ." He then believed these ideas to be impracticable. Moses Hess essentially corrected all these opinions. He became the grey eminence behind Marx, intensively guiding and influencing his protege's work.
In Paris, in the autumn of 1844, Moses Hess presented the 26-year-old Marx to the half-Jew Friedrich Engels, who was two years younger. This meeting laid the foundations for their long collaboration.
It was this same Moses Hess who thought up the rancorous basis of the socialist-communist ideology.