An award-winning British author Douglas Murray has claimed that the famous communist icon Karl Marx was a vicious racist and anti-Semite.
In his upcoming book, “The War on the West”, Murray deplores the “cancel culture” of the modern ultra-leftist anti-racist movements that have vilified famous western white male philosophers for their links to slavery and racism.
Writing in the Daily Mail, Murray claims that while the leftists have left no stone unturned in demonizing great white male philosophers like Aristotle, John Locke, David Hume, etc for their alleged racist remarks, they have conveniently ignored Karl Marx who was an equally diehard racist and anti-semite if not more.
Murray says that in his public and in private, Karl Marx comes over not only as racist, anti-black, and antisemitic but also as anti-Indian and pro-colonialist.
Given below are some notable examples of the racist and anti-semitic leanings of Karl Marx.
Karl Marx pointed out the Jewish and Negroid Features
According to Murray, in 1862 Karl Marx wrote a letter to one of his radical fellows Ferdinand Lassalle.
In the said letter, Marx castigated Lassalle, for not only being Jewish but for also having negroid features and hair. In that letter, he reportedly used the N-word (Negro) more than once.
In another letter, Marx reflected on the ‘degenerative’ nature of the ‘common negro’ and the ‘leprous’ nature of the Jewish people.
Every Tyrant is backed by a Jew – Karl Marx
Karl Marx didn’t just keep his anti-semitic and racist beliefs to his private correspondence and letters to his family and friend.
He publicly expressed them in some of the renowned newspapers and journals of those times.
For instance, in an article in a New York newspaper, he openly wrote that “we find every tyrant backed by a Jew”.
Later he also claimed that there exists always “a handful of Jews to ransack pockets”.
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Money is the Religion and God of Jews – Marx
Murray claims Karl’s Marx life is full of many proto-Hitlerian views and they are consistent throughout his life.
In 1843, Marx even wrote that the worldly religion of Jews was “huckstering” and their god was “money”.
In one of his writings, Marx even hinted at the eradication or genocide of Jews by claiming that “they could only become an emancipated ethnicity or culture when they no longer exist”, writes Walter E. Williams in News-Herald.
Karl Marx believed that “the classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way”, Williams writes further.
Murray says that these extreme remarks of Marx show that he was far more noxious racist and anti-semite than any of the people whom Leftist campaigners have spent recent years lambasting.
Yet, there have been no online petitions or crowd efforts to pull it down and kick it into a river, he says.
On the contrary, as recently as 2016, Salford University unveiled a new memorial to Friedrich Engels, co-author of Karl Marx’s “The Communist Manifesto” to commemorate the fact that the two of them used to drink in a nearby pub in the 1840s.
Murray says that it seems that a connection with Marx or Marxism is no ethical problem.
“There is no special effort to eradicate, problematize, decolonize, or otherwise act in an ‘anti-racist’ manner against the legacy of Marx and his circle”, he says.
Murray alleges it is because Marxist writings are a key weapon in trying to tear down Western civilization.
How anti-Racism is vilifying Western Philosophers?
Recalling his lecture on the great 18th Century German rationalist Immanuel Kant at an American University, Murray says that once he finished the talk, a student came to him and asked him if he knew that Kant used the N-word (Negro).
Murray said, that he struggled to work out the import of the question but then realized the cancel culture of leftists.
“Gone is the necessity of weeks spent plowing your way through The Critique Of Pure Reason or The Metaphysics Of Morals. Instead, you can skip all that, label [a western scholar] a racist and move swiftly on”, he says.
Murray says that the same claim has been made in recent years against almost every one of the pillars of the Western philosophical tradition, going right back to the ancient Greeks.
Murray then takes the name of some of the legendary western philosophers like Aristotle, Voltaire, John Loke, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, etc who all have been canceled out from academic and scholarly glorification because of their racist undertones in some of their writings.
Aristotle
Aristotle, he says “has been labeled ‘the granddaddy of all racial theorists’ because, in the first book of his Politics, he sought to justify the exclusion of certain people from civic life. A truly shocking fact in a work written around the year 300 BC”.
“As a result, he has been linked to the far-Right and its apparent ‘chilling’ embrace of Western civilization”, writes Murray.
Voltaire
A statue of Voltaire was recently removed from the Academie Francaise in Paris after the charge against the great figure of the French Enlightenment that he had personally invested in the French East India Company and, in a work of 1769, had made a racist comment about Africans.
John Locke
The British philosopher John Locke is similarly deleted on the grounds that he owned shares in companies connected with the slave trade.
And so his A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689) has been transformed from one of the great advances of humanist thought into a guilty man’s meaningless hypocrisy.
David Hume
The Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume – was condemned for an obscure footnote in one of his essays in which he speculated that “the negroes and in general all the other species of men to be naturally inferior to the whites”.
A petition to the authorities at Edinburgh University – where Hume studied from the age of 12 and for years was its librarian – demanded the renaming of the David Hume Tower on campus.
The protesters got their wish, with a former holder of the David Hume Fellowship at the university denouncing Hume as ‘an unashamed racist’. Pressure immediately grew to remove Hume’s statue on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.
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