Who Is Karl Marx?|5 Minute Video

When writing The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx thought he was supplying a road to utopia, but all over his concepts were tried, they resulted in disaster and mass murder. In this video, Paul Kengor, Professor of Political Science at Grove City College, illuminates the life of the mild-mannered 19th Century German whose concepts led to the rise of a few of the most ruthless dictators in world history.

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Ideas have consequences.

Often excellent. In some cases bad.

And in some cases disastrous– like the concepts of Karl Marx.

Born in Trier, Germany in 1818, Marx didn’t create communism. But it was on his ideas that Lenin and Stalin built the Soviet Union, Mao developed communist China, and many other tyrants, from the Kims in North Korea to the Castros in Cuba, built their communist routines. Eventually, those movements and regimes calling themselves “Marxist” murdered about 100 million people and oppressed more than a billion.

Marx believed that employees, specifically those who did manual labor, were made use of by capitalists– the people who owned, as Marx put it, “the ways of production” (specifically, factories)– but who did really little physical labor themselves.

Only an employees’ transformation, Marx composed in Das Kapital, might remedy this injustice.

What would that transformation appear like?

Marx and his collaborator, Friedrich Engels, spelled it out point-by-point in The Communist Manifesto. It included the “abolition of property and inheritance” and the “centralization of credit, communication, and transport in the hands of the state.” And a lot more along the same lines.

Simply put, the state owns and controls practically everything.
This notion was widely gone over and discussed in European intellectual circles throughout Marx’s life time, but absolutely nothing much came of it until Vladimir Lenin took power in Russia in 1917.

This altered everything. In spite of its repetitive economic failures, Lenin’s Russia, which became called the Soviet Union, ended up being the design for dictators around the world.

Wherever Marx’s ideas were practiced, life got even worse– not by a little; but by a lot. Wherever Marxism goes, economic collapse, terror and starvation follow.

So, if catastrophic failure– indicating terrible human suffering– is the inevitable legacy of Marxism, why do so many people– and now, specifically, youths– safeguard it?

The most common answer Marxism’s advocates use is that “they”– whoever “they” are: Lenin, Stalin, Chavez– never ever truly practiced Marxism. They all somehow got it wrong.

Marxism, we are told, is, at its essence, about sharing what we have: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his requirements,” as Marx put it.

Maybe that sounds excellent to you. Who identifies ability?

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Who Is Karl Marx? When writing The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx thought he was providing a roadway to utopia, however everywhere his ideas were attempted, they resulted in disaster and mass murder. Born in Trier, Germany in 1818, Marx didn’t invent communism. Marx and his partner, Friedrich Engels, spelled it out point-by-point in The Communist Manifesto. Wherever Marx’s concepts were practiced, life got worse– not by a little; but by a lot.