Marx was a loafer and a scrounger who had the audacity to talk and hold forth about the plight of the working classes a class he identified with yet never did an honest days work in his life , he lived in filth , neglected his family and was a bigot and a racist .

A lot of his adoring followers are " champagne socialists " who " can identify with the plight of the working classes " yeah right 👌

I doubt one of them has ever read the dreadful Das Kapital I cannot say I blame them in fairness ☺️

Here's a little snippet of Marx and his buddy Engels i wonder what black , Jewish and Mexican commies think of this 🙀 From The Globe

Editor’s note: This commentary contains language, although used in historical context, that may offend some readers.

May Day celebrations were held all across the fruited plain, with leftist radicals and unionists worshipping the ideals of communism.

Communism is an ideology calling for government control over our lives. It was created by Karl Marx, who—along with his collaborator, Friedrich Engels—wrote a pamphlet called “Manifesto of the Communist Party.”

In 1867, Marx wrote the first volume of “Das Kapital.” The second and third volumes were published posthumously, edited by Engels.

Few people who call themselves Marxists have ever even bothered to read “Das Kapital.” If one did read it, he would see that people who call themselves Marxists have little in common with Marx.

For those who see Marx as their hero, there are a few historical tidbits they might find interesting. Nathaniel Weyl, himself a former communist, dug them up for his 1979 book, “Karl Marx: Racist.”

For example, Marx didn’t think much of Mexicans. When the United States annexed California after the Mexican War, Marx sarcastically asked, “Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it?”

Engels shared Marx’s contempt for Mexicans, explaining: “In America we have witnessed the conquest of Mexico and have rejoiced at it. It is to the interest of its own development that Mexico will be placed under the tutelage of the United States.”

Marx had a racial vision that might be interesting to his modern-day black supporters. In a letter to Engels, in reference to his socialist political competitor Ferdinand Lassalle, Marx wrote:

It is now completely clear to me that he, as is proved by his cranial formation and his hair, descends from the Negroes who had joined Moses’ exodus from Egypt, assuming that his mother or grandmother on the paternal side had not interbred with a n—–. Now this union of Judaism and Germanism with a basic Negro substance must produce a peculiar product.

Engels shared Marx’s racial philosophy. In 1887, Paul Lafargue, who was Marx’s son-in-law, was a candidate for a council seat in a Paris district that contained a zoo. Engels claimed that Lafargue had “one-eighth or one-twelfth n—– blood.”

In a letter to Lafargue’s wife, Engels wrote, “Being in his quality as a n—–, a degree nearer to the rest of the animal kingdom than the rest of us, he is undoubtedly the most appropriate representative of that district.”

Marx was also an anti-Semite, as seen in his essay titled “On the Jewish Question,” which was published in 1844. Marx asked:

What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money. … Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man—and turns them into commodities. … The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. … The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.

Despite the fact that in the 20th century alone communism was responsible for more than 100 million murders, much of the support for communism and socialism is among intellectuals.

The reason they do not condemn the barbarism of communism is understandable. Richard Pipes explains:

Intellectuals, by the very nature of their professions, grant enormous attention to words and ideas. And they are attracted by socialist ideas. They find that the ideas of communism are praiseworthy and attractive; that, to them, is more important than the practice of communism. Now, Nazi ideals, on the other hand, were pure barbarism; nothing could be said in favor of them.

That means leftists around the world will continue to celebrate the ideas of communism.

Here are some more " insights " into the bearded and tormented life of the " Bar room philosopher " Marx , courtesy of The Economic journal .......

Marx was anything but a saint. On one hand, he strongly criticized capitalism in his works and incited hatred against the bourgeoisie. On the other, he was financially dependent on his wife, who was the daughter of an “evil” capitalist entrepreneur by his own definition, as well as his good friend Friedrich Engels, who was the son of a textile factory owner.

Apart from the double standard he held, Marx was also a spendthrift and a womanizer who loved drinking expensive red wine and chain-smoking cigars, and who also had an affair with his own housemaid. In fact, during the last 10 years of his life when he was writing Das Kapital, he couldn’t even pay for his bread and was struggling with terminal Syphilis.

Karl Marx didn’t live to see the publication of the second and third volumes of Das Kapital, which were arranged and published by Engels in 1885 and 1894, respectively, using the preparatory and unfinished manuscripts he had left behind.

After Engels died in 1895, his friend and German social democratic activist Karl Kautsky gathered the remaining manuscripts of Marx, based on which he went on to publish the fourth volume of Das Kapital between 1905 and 1910.

Intriguingly though, despite the fact that Das Kapital has been hailed by the CPC as the “Red Bible” for decades, only a handful of its leaders and high-ranking officials have actually read through all four volumes of the book.

Even paramount leaders like Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping and Chen Yun rarely cited the theories of Das Kapital in their written works and chronicles, which calls into question whether they were really as familiar with Marxist theories as they claimed.

In a nutshell, the contents of Das Kapital can be categorized into four major segments: 1. the class struggle and the proletariat dictatorship; 2. violent revolution; 3. the general picture of a communist society; and 4. the theory of “surplus value”.

The idea of “surplus value”, or “Mehrwert”, is at the core of Karl Marx’s anti-capitalist theories. Simply put, “surplus value” refers to the additional value of labor created by workers over and above the costs of hiring them, and that extra value is then appropriated by their employers as “profits” when the finished products which they made are sold to the market.

According to Marx, “surplus value” is a form of labor exploitation, because workers cannot share that extra value and the profits its generates since they have no control over the means of production (e.g. the machinery in the factories owned by their employers). As a result, all the extra value and profits go to the pockets of the entrepreneurs, who usually pay their workers less than the value which their labor has added to the finished products, often just enough to maintain them at a subsistence level.

For example, if a factory worker is paid to work eight hours a day, and five hours of work is enough to cover his wages, then the remaining 3 hours of work would be considered “surplus labor”, and the extra value it produces would be “surplus value”.

Marx’s arguments over “surplus value” might appear logical and convincing at first glance. However, there is actually a fundamental flaw in his theories: while he lambasted entrepreneurs for exploiting workers, he failed to take into account their contribution in terms of capital, management and technology input.

If capitalists are not rewarded in terms of “surplus value”, where will job opportunities come from? And there will be no industrialization and economic advance whatsoever.

In the first volume of Das Kapital, Marx says “the days of private capitalism are numbered”. Ironically, history has proven him wrong, as it was exactly the opposite that happened in China in the 1980s when capitalism, along with its modern production and management methods were introduced to pull China out of its economic difficulties and widespread poverty.

An idea is not wrong simply because it came from someone who's life you don't respect.

However,

I agree, there has yet to be any large scale or long term success of communism. The closest applications to concept are very small communes which typically don't last long, and the largest applications are totalitarian states.