[lbo-talk] East Germans still stuck on Marx

Brad Mayer Bradley.Mayer at Sun.COM
Wed Jan 28 15:13:38 PST 2004


Couldn't resist sending this one to LBO, from Conrad Blacks' warren of reaction, The National Interest (online). It is Uwe Siemon-Netto, whining about the continuing popularity of Karl Marx in Germany, especially Eastern Germany:

http://www.inthenationalinterest.com/Articles/Vol3Issue4/Vol3Issue4Uwe.html

This passage was particularly choice, reminding me very much of the tenor of discourse from certain quarters here on LBO:

"In this situation, it’s not surprising that, in East Germany, Karl Marx still ranks as the “best of Germans,” while, lumped together, Westerners and Easterners rate him as third only after Konrad Adenauer, West Germany’s first chancellor, and Martin Luther. Of course, as political scientist Konrad Löw points out, the Left in both parts of Germany has successfully suppressed Marx’s most appalling statements, openly supporting terrorism and the “destruction of the state, religion of any kind, the bourgeois society, Judaism, legal order and especially private property, marriage and the family.” [Oh my] Neither will you hear in contemporary Germany that Marx, who was of Jewish descent, was a consummate bigot who in his letters to Friedrich Engels labeled Ferdinand Lassalle, Social Democracy’s curly-haired founder, a “Jewish n-word.”"

See, Karl really was an antisemite! :-D

-Brad Mayer



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