Karl Marx has featured on this website on
more than one occasion.
He was an ignoramus on the Bible despite
coming from an old rabbinical family which converted to Lutheranism when he
was six years old.
In his great study of wage
labour, Capital (Vols 1-3), he attributed the rise of wage labour to his great
whipping boy, the Jewish people. He associates the Jewish Boyars in Wallachia
in the Danube region with the first organised
profiteers and organisers of wage labour in the Middle Ages.
Shome mishtake shurely...
In the Bible Jesus relates the
parable of the steward who sent out labourers to his vineyard at various times
and paid them all the same wage, a silver denarius. In response to the
criticisms of those sent out earlier, Jesus cites the doctrine of contract –
offer, agreement and payment (consideration in legal terms)
.
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Karl Marx? Fine ‘genius’ “who will never
die!”
In his socialist Theses on Feuerbach
(1843), Marx counterposes his own views on nurture i.e. social conditioning,
the credo of Marxists and neo-Marxists in opposition to Feuerbach’s nature
thesis regarding the development of personality.
Neither is exclusively true and Feuerbach is certainly
not a religious whipping boy dragged from the past by our current crop of
neo-Marxists for the “political education” (Adams) of the religious faithful in
the error of their ways.
God is the witness of every idea,the
support and core of a human being. “Not a sparrow falls from the heavens, but
he knows about it”.
Péguy in the 1930s called for a religious
critique of politics, laws, etc in the same way as religions had been held up
to barbaric excoriation in Soviet Russia by gangsters and political Mafiosi of
the type of Sinn Fein and the Socialist Workers Party.
Let us endeavour to fulfil that task today.
Does Marx realise that he is dead?
Joseph Paul McCarroll
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