"A seed of violence, perhaps?"

[Doug Henwood]

Carl Remick wrote:

>>From a review of Marshall Berman’s “Adventures in Marxism” by Douglas A.
>Sylva, in yesterday’s NY Times Book Review:  “But the most striking 
>element of this book is what is left unexamined: the dreadful 
>history of Communism. Berman never truly considers whether, since so 
>many different people in so many different countries have killed in 
>Marx's name, there might be some connection between the theory and 
>the practice, a seed of violence, perhaps, within Marx's own 
>thought. Because of this omission, these essays, though erudite and 
>entertaining, seem more like advocacy than argumentation.”
>
>Of course, to state the obvious, precisely the same point could be 
>made about the “many different people in so many different countries 
>[who] have killed in” the name of Christ or Muhammad.

With Christ and capitalism, mass murder is just an accident or an 
excess, a rogue element that got away, or growing pains. With 
Communism, and to a lesser extent Islam, it's an expression of its 
inner evil essence.

Doug