ERIK VON KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN: ON KARL MARX

ERIK VON KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN: ON KARL MARX

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EXCERPTS FROM "LEFTISM REVISITED: FROM DE SADE AND MARX TO HITLER AND POL POT: BY ERIK VON KUEHNELT-LEDDHIN, REGNERY GATEWAY, WASHINGTON, D.C. 1990  P. 108

"Who was this Karl Marx, source of so much evil for the past three generations? He was born in 1818 into the family of a Jewish lawyer in the old bishopric of Trier, a subject of King Frederick William III, the Congress of Vienna having allotted the Rhenish bishopric to Prussia. When he was six years old, his father embraced the Lutheran faith of the  Prussian master rather than the Catholic religion of the area, whether for religious or social reasons is unclear.... His relations with his mother were bad: he truly hated her....

"Marx's thinking can here be clearly traced to the ideas of Fourier, to his utopianism and his dreams of an earthly paradise. At the same time, Marx became increasingly Promethean in his visions. He replaced God with man, an the notion of the Ubermensch, the superman began to appear in his writings. Needless to say, all this is a far cry from Leninism, far akin to the New Left. Yet the purely artistic vein, his interest in art (like Hitler's) never entirely disappeared.

"Yet the key to Karl Marx's personality is his poetry which, to a very large extent,consists of volcanic eruptions of hatred strewn with expressions of abounding megalomia. One of his poems ends with the bitter line, "we apes of cold god." The statuette of an ape, brooding over a skull, sits on one of Darwin's books in Lenin's reconstructed study. (It is a gift of Armand Hammer.)

"The best description of Marx in his thirtieth year came from Carl Schurz, The German born American senator who met him in Cologne at a public session of democratic leagues and wrote in his Lebenerinnerungen: The stocky, heavily built man with his broad forehead, with pitch-black hair and full beard, attracted general attention.... What Marx said was indeed substantial, logical and clear. But never did I meet a man of such offensive arrogance in his demeanor. No opinion deviating in principle from his own would he give the slighted consideration. .... Marx nurtured a real hatred for the Jews, in whom he saw the very embodiment of bourgeois capitalism....

"The Communist Manifesto. first published in London, starts with the famous words: "A specter haunts Europe - the specter of communism." After the preamble it sets out to explain the past as the history of class struggle....the big bourgeois have pressed everybody down to the level of the proletariat...

"The first step in the Revolution of Workers is the transformation of the proletariat in to the ruling class which is to enforce democracy." Unlike what actually ensued later on in Russia, the transformation would occur step-by-step.... The measures will be different in the various countries, but for the nations that have progressed furthest, the following could be enacted:

1. Expropriation of real estate, the rent being used for the expenses of government.

2. Highly progressive taxation. 3. Abolition of the right to inherit.

4. Confiscation of all property of emigrants and rebels.

5. Centralization of all credit in the hands of the state through the agency of a national bank ...

6. Centralization of means of transport under state control.

7. Increase of nat. factories and the means of production. Improvement of lands based on common plan.

8. Universal conscription of labor. Organization of industrial armies, especially for agriculture...

9. Unification of industrial and agrarian production....

10. Public and free education for all children. Abolition of factory work for children.

"They openly declare that their aims can only be achieved through a violent overthrow of the present order. ... The document is interesting because it reveals the mentality of its authors, their quasi-religious vistas, their petty insincerities, their romantic outlook, their dogmatism &;inconsistencies of their views...

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