But don’t you see the greater irony in his horrendously toxic and rageful beliefs regarding black and brown races in light of BLM’s explicit vocal support for “Marxism”?
Sure he was a bum, as are, were and will be many people. But the guy was toxically racist and vitriolic. How can the so-called left adopt his views and deify him?!?
August 7, 1866, Marx wrote Engels about an exciting discovery he had made. The find was a pompous and preposterous book by a French ethnologist and racist crackpot named Pierre Tremaux which anyone well versed in science and scientific method would have dismissed as rubbish.
Marx, however, hailed Tremaux’s work as marking “a very significant advance over Darwin.” Marx’s infatuation with Tremaux’s race theories will be discussed in considerably more detail in chapter twelve. Here, suffice it to say that Marx wrote Engels that Tremaux had “proved that the common Negro type is the degenerate form of a much higher one...”
Actually, Tremaux had proved nothing. He had made the extraordinary and, of course, unsubstantiated, assertion that the Negro race was not a product of evolution, but of human degeneration. His actual words were: “The backward negro is not an evolved ape, but a degenerate man,” a finding that, in Marx’s opinion, made Tremaux superior to Darwin.”
On October 2, 1866, Engels replied to one of Marx’s enthusiastic letters about Tremaux with a long refutation of that charlatan’s theories. At the moment, we are concerned merely with what Engels had to say about Tremaux and Negroes. (As before, when I use the word n——-, it means that Engels inserted the offensive English term into the German text of his letter.)
“The stories about the N——-, Santa Maria, and about the transformation of whites into Negroes are laughable. Namely that the traditions of the Senegal n——s are worthy of unconditional belief precisely because the fellows don’t know how to write! . . .
The way the fellow explains how we Rhinelanders on our Devonian transitional rocks (which have not been under water since long before the era of coal formation) did not become idiots and N——s, he will perhaps show us in his second volume, or else assert that we really are n——-s.” -Engels (in private correspondence with Marx)
Marx’s second daughter, Laura, fell in love with a young medical student named Paul Lafargue in 1866. Lafargue was of French-Cuban origin. He was apparently one-quarter Jewish, one-quarter Carib Indian, probably less than an eighth Negro, and the rest French.
Although Lafargue was a socialist and one of Marx’s great admirers, Marx was not at all pleased with the proposed marriage until he discovered that the bridegroom-to-be was the only son of a wealthy West Indian planter whose father planned to settle a large sum on the couple. This not only provided Laura with apparent financial security, but opened up a new source from which Marx himself might borrow money. Marx decided that Lafargue was “a handsome, intelligent, energetic and gymnastically developed fellow”
Lafargue seemed in many ways an ideal son-in-law. He was comparatively rich, a socialist, a man who ran political errands for Marx, a professional, and, by Marx’s standards, a coming man in medicine. This did not prevent Marx from telling Theodore Cuno, a fellow socialist who was emigrating to the United States that one of his daughters had contributed to “solving the color question by marrying a n——-... ,” In addition, Marx habitually referred to Lafargue as “the little Negro” (Negrillo) or as “the Gorilla.”
Laura (Karl Marx’s daughter) bore a second child a year after the first. On January 17, 1870, Jenny Marx (Karl’s wife & Laura’s mother) wrote Engels that she hoped her daughter would practice reproductive restraint and not produce “ten little n——- boys.”
The unpleasant remark which Engels made in 1887, three years before his death, that it was highly appropriate for Lafargue to run for office in a Paris district that included the zoo since “in his quality as a n——-” he was “a degree nearer to the animal kingdom than the rest of us. . . .”
From Karl Marx’s own words (his own private love letters to Engels). He talks about his contemporary, Ferdinand Lasalle:
“It is now quite plain to me — as the shape of his head and the way his hair grows also testify — that he is descended from the negroes who accompanied Moses’ flight from Egypt (unless his mother or paternal grandmother interbred with a n----- ). Now, this blend of Jewishness and Germanness, on the one hand, and basic negroid stock, on the other, must inevitably give rise to a peculiar product. The fellow’s importunity is also n----- -like.”
He was also a worthless bum who never bothered to find a job and spent his life running from all the people he owed money to.
Which included Landlords because he’d never pay rent.
Sounds like Bernie
But don’t you see the greater irony in his horrendously toxic and rageful beliefs regarding black and brown races in light of BLM’s explicit vocal support for “Marxism”?
Sure he was a bum, as are, were and will be many people. But the guy was toxically racist and vitriolic. How can the so-called left adopt his views and deify him?!?
August 7, 1866, Marx wrote Engels about an exciting discovery he had made. The find was a pompous and preposterous book by a French ethnologist and racist crackpot named Pierre Tremaux which anyone well versed in science and scientific method would have dismissed as rubbish.
Marx, however, hailed Tremaux’s work as marking “a very significant advance over Darwin.” Marx’s infatuation with Tremaux’s race theories will be discussed in considerably more detail in chapter twelve. Here, suffice it to say that Marx wrote Engels that Tremaux had “proved that the common Negro type is the degenerate form of a much higher one...”
Actually, Tremaux had proved nothing. He had made the extraordinary and, of course, unsubstantiated, assertion that the Negro race was not a product of evolution, but of human degeneration. His actual words were: “The backward negro is not an evolved ape, but a degenerate man,” a finding that, in Marx’s opinion, made Tremaux superior to Darwin.”
On October 2, 1866, Engels replied to one of Marx’s enthusiastic letters about Tremaux with a long refutation of that charlatan’s theories. At the moment, we are concerned merely with what Engels had to say about Tremaux and Negroes. (As before, when I use the word n——-, it means that Engels inserted the offensive English term into the German text of his letter.)
“The stories about the N——-, Santa Maria, and about the transformation of whites into Negroes are laughable. Namely that the traditions of the Senegal n——s are worthy of unconditional belief precisely because the fellows don’t know how to write! . . . The way the fellow explains how we Rhinelanders on our Devonian transitional rocks (which have not been under water since long before the era of coal formation) did not become idiots and N——s, he will perhaps show us in his second volume, or else assert that we really are n——-s.” -Engels (in private correspondence with Marx)
Source: Chapter 7 of PDF at:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tom_Brown24/publication/339471486_Karl_Marx_racist_Nathaniel_Weyl/links/5e54916c4585158f40ec564f/Karl-Marx-racist-Nathaniel-Weyl.pdf?origin=publication_detail
AND ABOUT HIS OWN SON-IN-LAW!
Marx’s second daughter, Laura, fell in love with a young medical student named Paul Lafargue in 1866. Lafargue was of French-Cuban origin. He was apparently one-quarter Jewish, one-quarter Carib Indian, probably less than an eighth Negro, and the rest French.
Although Lafargue was a socialist and one of Marx’s great admirers, Marx was not at all pleased with the proposed marriage until he discovered that the bridegroom-to-be was the only son of a wealthy West Indian planter whose father planned to settle a large sum on the couple. This not only provided Laura with apparent financial security, but opened up a new source from which Marx himself might borrow money. Marx decided that Lafargue was “a handsome, intelligent, energetic and gymnastically developed fellow”
Lafargue seemed in many ways an ideal son-in-law. He was comparatively rich, a socialist, a man who ran political errands for Marx, a professional, and, by Marx’s standards, a coming man in medicine. This did not prevent Marx from telling Theodore Cuno, a fellow socialist who was emigrating to the United States that one of his daughters had contributed to “solving the color question by marrying a n——-... ,” In addition, Marx habitually referred to Lafargue as “the little Negro” (Negrillo) or as “the Gorilla.”
Laura (Karl Marx’s daughter) bore a second child a year after the first. On January 17, 1870, Jenny Marx (Karl’s wife & Laura’s mother) wrote Engels that she hoped her daughter would practice reproductive restraint and not produce “ten little n——- boys.”
The unpleasant remark which Engels made in 1887, three years before his death, that it was highly appropriate for Lafargue to run for office in a Paris district that included the zoo since “in his quality as a n——-” he was “a degree nearer to the animal kingdom than the rest of us. . . .”
From Karl Marx’s own words (his own private love letters to Engels). He talks about his contemporary, Ferdinand Lasalle:
“It is now quite plain to me — as the shape of his head and the way his hair grows also testify — that he is descended from the negroes who accompanied Moses’ flight from Egypt (unless his mother or paternal grandmother interbred with a n----- ). Now, this blend of Jewishness and Germanness, on the one hand, and basic negroid stock, on the other, must inevitably give rise to a peculiar product. The fellow’s importunity is also n----- -like.”