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THREE RUINED FAITH
Engels's Counter-Conversion
Since Friedrich Engels figures prominently in Marx's life, I will give brief
material about him. Engels had been brought up in a pietistic family In
fact, in his youth he had composed beautiful Christian poems. After meeting
Marx, he wrote about him:
Who is chasing wild endeavor? A black man from Trier
[Marx's birthplace], a remarkable monster. He does not walk or run, he jumps
on his heels and rages full of anger as if he would like to catch the wide
tent of the sky and throw it to the earth. He stretches his arms far away in
the air; the wicked fist is clenched, he rages without ceasing, as if ten
thousand devils had caught him by the hair.'
Engels had begun to doubt the Christian faith after reading a book
written by a liberal theologian, Bruno Bauer. He had had a great struggle in
his heart. He wrote at that time, I pray every day, indeed almost all day,
for truth, and I have done so ever since I began to doubt, but still I
cannot go
back. My tears are welling as I write.2
Engels never 'found his way back to the Word of God, joining instead
the one whom he himself had called "the monster possessed by ten thousand
devils."3 He had experienced a counter-conversion.
What kind of person was Bruno Bauer, the liberal theologian who
played a decisive role in the destruction of Engels's Christian faith and
who endorsed Marx in his new anti-Christian ways? Did he have any
connec-tion with demons?
Like Engels himself, he started life as a believer and later as a
conservative theologian, even writing against critics of the Bible.
Afterward he himself became a radical critic of the Holy Scriptures and
creator of a materialistic Christianity which insisted that Jesus was only
human, not the Son of God. Bauer wrote to his friend Arnold Ruge, also a
friend of Marx and Engels, on December 6, 1841:
I deliver lectures here at the university before a large audience. I don't
recognize myself when I pronounce my blasphe-mies from the pulpit. They are
so great that these children, whom nobody should offend, have their hair
standing on end. While delivering the blasphemies, I remember how I work
piously at home writing an apology of the holy Scrip-tures and of the
Revelation. In any case, it is a very bad demon that possesses me as often
as I ascend the pulpit, and I am so weak that I am compelled to yield to
him. . . . My spirit of blasphemy will be satisfied only if I am authorized
to preach openly as professor of the atheistic system.4
The man who convinced him to become a Commu-nist was the same Moses
Hess who had previously convinced Marx. Hess wrote, after meeting Engels in
Cologne,
He parted from me as an overzealous Communist. This is how I produce
ravages. . . .5
To produce ravages-was this Hess's supreme purpose in life? It is
Lucifer's, too.
The traces of having been a Christian never disap-peared from
Enge'ls's mind. In 1865 h.
admiration for the song of the Reformamation
Fortress Is Our God," calling it "a triumphal- hymn which became the
Marseillaise of the: sixteenth cen-
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tury"6 There are also other such pro-Christian state-ments from his pen.
The tragedy of Engels is moving, and- even more_ _ _. . gripping
than that of Marx. Here is a wonderful Chnstian poem written in his youth by
the man who would later become Marx's greatest accomplice in the at-tempted
destruction of religion:
Lord Jesus Christ, God's only son,
0 step down from Thy heavenly throne
And save my soul for me. Come down in all Thy blessedness.
Light of Thy Father's holiness, Grant that I may choose Thee.
Lovely, splendid, without sorrow is the joy
with which we raise, Saviour, unto Thee our'praise.
And when -I draw my dying breath
And must endure the pangs of death, Firm to Thee may I hold; That when my
eyes with dark are filled And when my beating heart is stilled, In Thee
shall I grow cold. Up in Heaven shall my spirit praise
Thy name eternally, Since it lies safe in Thee.
0 were the time of joy but nigh
When from Thy loving bosom I Might draw new life that warms. And then, 0
God, with thanks to Thee,
Shall I embrace those dear to me Forever in my arms.
Ever, ever, ever-living,
Thee abiding to behold
Shall my life anew unfold.
Thou camest Humankind to free From death and ill,
that there might be
Blessings and fortune everywhere.
And now with this, Thy new descent,
On Earth all shall be different;
To each man shalt
Thou give his share.7
After Bruno, Bauer had sown doubts in his soul, Engels wrote to some
friends, It is written, "Ask and it shall be given unto you." I seek truth
wherever I have the hope of finding at least a shadow of it. Still I cannot
recognize your truth as the eternal truth. Yet it is written, "Seek and ye
shall find. Who is the man among you who would give to his child a stone,
when it asks for bread? Even less will your Father who is in heaven."
Tears come into my eyes while I write this. I am moved through and
through, but I feel I will not be lost. I will come to God, after whom my
whole soul longs. This, too, is a witness of the Holy Spirit. With this I
live and with this I die.
The Spirit of God witnesses to me, that I am a child of God.8
Engels was very well aware of the danger of Satan-ism. In his book
Schelling, Philosopher in Christ, Engels wrote:
Since the terrible French Revolution, an entirely new, devilish spirit has
entered into a great part of mankind, and godless-ness lifts its daring head
in such an unashamed and subtle manner thar you would think the prophecies
of Scripture are fulfilled now Let us see first what the Scriptures say
about the godlessness of the last times. The Lord Jesus says in Matthew
24:11-13: "Many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many And
because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that
shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the
kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations;
and then shall the end come."
And then in verse 24:"There shall arise false Christs, and false prophets,
and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible,
they shall deceive the very elect." And St. Paul says, in IIThessalonians
2:3ff.:
"That man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and
exalts himself above all that is God, or that is worshipped. . . . [The
coming of the Wicked] is after the working of Satan with all power and signs
and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of un-righteousness in them
that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they
might be saved. And for tbrs cause God shall send them strong delusion, that
they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not
the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."
Engels quotes Scripture after Scripture, just as the most Bible-believing
theologian would do.
He continues:
We have nothing to do any more with indifference or coldness toward the
Lord. No, it is an open, declared enmity, and in the place of all sects and
parties we have now only two: Christians and anti-Christians. . . . We see
the false prophets among us. . . .They travel throughout Germany and wish to
intrude everywhere; they teach their Satanic teachings in the market-places
and bear the flag of the Devil from one town to another, seducing the poor
youth, in order to throw them in the deepest abyss of hell and death.
He finishes this book with the words of Revelation:
Behold, I come soon. Keep what you have,that nobody
takes away from you your crown. Amen.9
The man who wrote such poems and such warnings against Satanism,
the man who prayed with tears to beware of this danger, the man who
recognized Marx as being possessed with a thousand devils, became Marx's
closest collaborator in the devilish fight, "for Communism abolishes eternal
religion, and all morality . . ."10truths, it abolishes all
Liberal theology had accomplished this monstrous change. Thus it
shares with Marx and Engels the guilt for the tens of millions of innocents
killed by commu-nism to date. What spiritual tragedy!
Marx Hates Whole Nations
Shifting now from Engels to Marx, Marx's whole attitude and conversation
were Satanic in nature.
Though a Jew, he wrote a pernicious anti-Jewish book called
TheJewish Question. In 1856, he wrote in The New York Tribune an article
entitled "The Russian Loan," in which we read:
We know that behind every tyrant stands a Jew, as a Jesuit stands behind
every Pope. As the army of the Jesuits kills every free thought, so the
desire of the oppressed would have chances of success, the usefulness of
wars incited by capitalists would cease, if it were not for the Jews who
steal the treasures of mankind. It is no wonder that 18.56 years ago Jesus
chased the usurers from the Jerusalem temple. They were like the
contemporary usurers who stand behind tyrants and tyrannies. The majority of
them are Jewish. The fact that the Jews have become so strong as to endanger
the life of the world causes us to disclose their organization their
purpose, that its stench might awaken the workers 0; the world to fight and
eliminate such a canker.
Did Hitler say anything worse than this?
(Strangely, Marx also wrote to the contrary, in The Capital, Volume
I, under the heading "The Capitalist Character of Manufacture'?:
"In the front of the chosen people it was written that they are the
property of Jehovah.")
Many other Jewish Communists imitated Marx in their hatred of Jews.
Ruth Fisher, renowned German Jewish Communist leader and a member of
Parliament,said:
"Squash the Jewish capitalists, hang them from the lamp posts; tread them
under your feet."
" Why just the Jewish capitalists and not the others remains an unanswered
question.
Marx hated not only the Jews, but also the Germans:
"Beating is the only means of resurrecting the Germans."
He spoke about "the stupid German people . the disgusting national
narrowness of the Germans"
and said that "Germans, Chinese, and Jews have to be compared with peddlers
and small merchants."12
He called the Russians "cabbage-eaters."13
The Slavic peo-ples were "ethnic trash."I4 He expressed his hatred
of many nations, but never his love.
Marx wrote in his new year's roundup of 1848 about "the Slavic
riffraff," which included Russians, Czechs, and Croats.
These "retrograde" races had nothing left for them by fate except "the
immediate task of perishing in the revolutionary world storm."
"The coming world war will cause not only reactionary classes and dynasties,
but entire reactionary peoples, to disappear from the face of the earth. And
that will be progress." "Their very name will vanish."15
Neither Marx nor Engels were concerned about the destruction of
millions of people. The former wrote, A silent, unavoidable revolution is
taking place in society, a revolution that cares as little about the human
lives it de-stroys as an earthquake cares about the houses it ravages.
Classes and races that are too weak to dominate the new conditions of
existence will be defeated.
In contrast, Hitler, who desired only the enslave-ment and not the
destruction of these nations, was much more humane than Marx.
Engels wrote in the same vein: The next world war will make whole
reactionary peoples disappear from the face of the earth. This, too, is
progress.16
Obviously this cannot be fulfilled without crushing some delicate national
flower. But without violence and without pitilessness nothing can be
obtained in history.17
Marx, the man who posed as a fighter for the prole-tariat, called
this class of people "stupid boys, rogues, asses."
Engels well knew what to expect from them. He wrote, "The
democratic, red, yes, even the Communist mob, will never love us."
Marx identified black people with "idiots" and con-stantly used the
offensive term "nigger" in private cor-respondence.
He called his rival Lassalle "the Jewish nigger" and made it very
clear that this was not intended as an epithet of disdain for just one
person.
It is now absolutely clear to me that, as both the shape of his head and his
hair texture shows, he is descended from the Negroes who joined Moses'
flight from Egypt (unless his mother or grandmother on the paternal side
hybridized with a nigger). . . . The pushiness of the fellow is also
nigger-like.
Marx even championed slavery in North America. For this, he
quarreled with his friend Proudhon, who had advocated the emancipation of
slaves in the U.S. Marx wrote in response,
Without slavery, North America, the most progressive of countries, would be
transformed into a patriarchal country Wipe North America from the map of
the world and you will have anarchy-the complete decay of modern com-merce
and civilization. Abolish slavery and you will have wiped America off the
map of nations.18
Marx also wrote, "The Devil take the British!"19
In spite of such denunciations, there are plenty of British, as well as
American, Marxists.
Satan Is in the Family
Marx's favorite daughter, Eleanor, with her father's ap proval, married
Edward Eveling.
He lectured on such subjects as "The Wickedness of God." (Just as Satanists
do. Unlike atheists, they do not deny the existence of
God, except to deceive others; they know of His exis-
tence, but describe Him as wicked.)
In his lectures he tried to prove that God is "an encourager of polygamy
and an instigator to theft." He advocated the right to blaspheme.20
The following poem describes the atti-tudes of his movement toward Satanism:
To thee my verses, unbridled and daring,
Shall mount, 0 Satan, king of the banquet.
Away with thy sprinkling, 0 priest,
And thy droning.
For never shall Satan, 0 priest, stand
behind thee.
Thy breath, 0 Satan, my verses inspires,
When from my bosom the gods I defy ,
Of kings pontifical, of kings inhuman:
Thine is the lightning that sets minds
to shaking.
0 soul that wanderest far from the
straight way,
Satan is merciful. See Heloisa!
Like the whirlwind spreading its wings,
He passes, 0 people, Satan the great!
Hail, of reason the great Vindicator!
Sacred to thee shall rise incense and vows!
Thou hast the god of the priest disenthroned.2'
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Addendum
The writings of Karl Marx were not that atypical of the educated elite of
the day.
In the 18th/19th century, the attitudes of the socialists were (on average)
that similar to the national socialists, in that they were
separists/exterminationists.
Conservatives were generally imperialists, and considered that the best lot
for the non whites was that they should be conquered and uplifted.
The traditional liberals was ironically closer to the white
separatists(libetarian variety) of today, and believed in the non
interference(or at least the non conquest) of other peoples. Only a few
groupings, mostly radical christian and Northern abolitionists like Wendell
Phillips, Harriet Beecher Stowe and the madcap Horace Greeley believed in
forced integration and they were generally very peripheral.
Abraham Lincoln for instance was wanting to free the slaves and then send
back to africa (that was a comment he made to an audience that was not
demanding it as a political statement).
For the educated consensus opinion about race I qote from Encyclopaedia
Brittanica 1895-"To this premature ossification of the skull, preventing all
further development of the brain, many pathologists have attributed the
inherent mental inferiority of the blacks, an inferiority which is even more
marked than their physical differences.......It must at the same time be
confessed that the question of the mental temperament of the negro has been
greatly complicated by the partisanship of interested advocates on either
side. But for this disturbing element it would perhaps be readily admitted
that the mental differences are as least as marked as the physical
differences between the dark and other races And as both the gradual outcome
of external conditions, fixed by hereditary, it follows that the attempt to
transform the negro mind by foreign culturemust be, as it has proved to be ,
as futile as the sudden attempt to transform his physical type.....It more
correct to say of the negroe that he in non-moral than immoral."
The changes in attitude between that and the 1930's when present political
correctness started to infiltrate the universities, particularly the
anthropology department.
A good example of the change can be seen through following the writings of
HG Wells. Mr Wells was the Alvin Toffler of his day and his writings were
read far beyond his fabian socialist background.
In 1904 his Anticipations was published
wherein he made some predictions of future social and technological
trends.
At the Cape of Good Hope, under British
rule, Kaffirs are being settled upon little inalienable holdings that
must inevitably develop in the same direction, and over the Southern
States the nigger squats and multiplies." (Anticipations, p. 83)
"There is a disposition in the world, which the French share,
to undervalue grossly the prospects of all things French, derived,
so far as I can gather, from the facts that the French were beaten by the
Germans in 1870, and that they do not breed with the abandon of rabbits or
negroes." (p. 205)
"They will rout out and illuminate urban rookeries
and all places where the base can drift to multiply; they will contrive
a land legislation that will keep the black or yellow or mean-white
squatter on the move;" (p. 263)
"And for the rest--those swarms of black and brown and yellow
people who do not come into the new needs of efficiency?
Well, the world is a world, not a charitable institution, and
I take it they will have to go. The whole tenor and meaning of the
world, as I see it, is that they have to go. So far as they fail
to develop sane, vigorous, and distinctive personalities for the
great world of the future, it is their portion to die out and
disappear." (p. 274)
Yet as late as 1924 he was writing In "Is Race Conflict Unavoidable?" ):
Although natural thought forms, and dispositions and instinctive reactions
of Northern Europeans and Jews, Negroes and Whites, Indians and Chinese,
vary subtly and profoundly, you can no more ignore differences of race than
differences of sex. They are things greatly intensified and supplemented by
differences of tradition, training and conditions, but when all such
modifications are eliminated, essential differences remain.
Yet in 1928 when HG Wells wrote The open conspiracy
that there was no such thing as pure races and that the" level of
civilisation should rise to the colour of a mans skin or the kinks in a
womens haircrease cease to have the value of shiboleths"
Another fabian (and coefficient club member) Bertrand Russel wrote:-
``[T]he white population of the world will soon cease to increase. The
Asiatic races will be longer, and the Negroes still longer, before their
birth rate falls sufficiently to make their numbers stable without help of
war and pestilence.... Until that happens, the benefits aimed at by
socialism can only be partially realized, and the less prolific races will
have to defend themselves against the more prolific by methods which are
disgusting even if they are necessary.''
--Prospects of Industrial Civilization, 1923
This was the common line amongst socialists. For instance the arch anti
racist Franz Boas in his 1911 book
"The mind of primitive man" -"differences of structure must be accompanied
by differences of function, physiological as well as psychological; and, as
we found clear evidence of differences of structures between races, so we
must anticipate that differences in mental characteristics will be found
The difference comes from the setting up of the rockerfeller GEB whose
stated purpose was to educate "without regard to sex race or creed"(see
Rockerfeller Internationalist- E Josephson") and promote the amalgamation
and abolition of differences between races and sexes. The real purpose of
the board was-
In our dreams, we have limitless resources and the people yield themselves
with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present educational
conventions fade from our minds and unhamoered by tradition, we work our own
good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk. We shall not try to
make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of
learning, or of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors,
editors, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great
artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, preachers , politicians,
statesmen, of whom we have ample supply. The task w set before ourselves is
very simple as well as a very beautiful one, to train these people as we
find them to a perfectly ideal life just where they are. So we will organise
our children and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers
and mothers are doing in an imperfect way, in the homes, in the shops, and
on the farm-
Occasional letter no 1---issued by JD Rockefeller to state the purpose of
the general education board(1902)
Incorporators included Rev Gates-rockerfellers right hand man, Daniel Coit
Gilman -vice president of the Peabody fund and president of the university
of california and John Hopkins incorporator and first president of the
carnegie institute and also of the Russle sage foundation Gilman helped set
up the Yale trust in 1856 to finance the Skull and bones society Also
involved were W Hines page who helped involve the US in WW-1 and George
Peabody who would be appointed first director of the Federal reserve bank of
New York(1914-21) and later became the director of FDR's warm springs
foundation and treasurer of the democratic party. The act allowing the
general education board was pushed through the congress in 1911 by senator
Nelson Aldrich
The rockerfeller trusts later gave substantial funds to Columbia university
at whhich Franz Boas was preaching his hyper egalitarianism.
The Rockerfeller's were also instrumental in rescuing what would become the
national council of churches and also helping set up the dallas theological
seminary. This helped move the protestant centre away from calvinsin that
regarded the different ethnic groups as Gods unique and precious creation to
the more egalitarian views now prevalent. Other social forces have been
active which also account for the change in attitudes but the main thrust
started here.
Rockefeller was a substantial supporter of the London school of Economics
which was the training ground for members of the Fabian society to which GB
Shaw was very closely linked. Hence you have the following
>From myron fagan-
"Now in those years, the legendary Diamond Jim Brady used to throw a
banquet at the famous Delmonico Restaurant in New York after the opening
performance of a popular play. He threw such a party for the cast of "The
Melting Pot," its author, producer, and chosen Broadway celebrities. By then
I'd already made a personal mark on the Broadway Theater and was invited to
that party. There I met George Bernard Shaw and a Zionist writer named
Israel Cohen. Zangwill, Shaw, and Cohen were the ones who created the Fabian
Society in England and had worked closely with a Frankfurt Jew named
Mordicai who had changed his name to Karl Marx; but remember, at that time
both Marxism and Communism were just emerging and nobody paid much attention
to either and nobody suspected the propaganda in the writings of those three
really brilliant writers.
"At that banquet; Israel Cohen told me that he was then engaged in writing a
book which was to be a follow-up on Zangwill's "The Melting Pot." The title
of his book was to be "A Racial Program for the 20th Century." At that time
I was completely absorbed by my work as a playwright, and significant as
that title was, its real objective never dawned on me nor was I interested
in reading the book. But it suddenly hit me with the force of a hydrogen
bomb when I received a newspaper clipping of an item published by the
Washington D.C. Evening Star in May 1957. That item was a verbatim reprint
of the following excerpt in Israel Cohen's book "A Racial Program for the
20th Century" and it read as I quote:
"We must realize that our party's most powerful weapon is racial tension. By
propounding into the consciousness of the dark races that for centuries that
they have been oppressed by the whites, we can move them to the program of
the communist party. In America; we will aim for subtle victory. While
inflaming the Negro minority against the whites; we will instill in the
whites a guilt complex for their exploitation of the Negroes. We will aid
the Negroes to rise to prominence in every walk of life, in the professions,
and in the world of sports and entertainment. With this prestige; the Negro
will be able to intermarry with the whites and begin a process which will
deliver America to our cause."
Record of June 7, 1957; by Representative Thomas G. Abernethy.
HG Wells was a dissident member of the Fabian society and didn't always
follow the party line so it took him a little longer to be join in to the
new line that was being taken by the socialists
Bertrand Russel left the same circles even earlier ( when the british
imperialists were pushing for war with germany) and he never completely
changed his attitudes.
``[U]nless the increase of population can be diminished.... War ... has
hitherto been disappointing in this respect ... but perhaps bacteriological
war may prove more effective. If a Black Death could spread throughout the
world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without
making the world too full.... The state of affairs might be somewhat
unpleasant, but what of it? Really high-minded people are indifferent to
happiness, especially other peoples'....''
--Impact of Science Upon Society, 1951
Other socialist such as JBS Haldane also never changed whereas Julian
Huxley kept an ambivelent attitude, presumably being closer to the thinking
and power centres.
And so what has happened so since then is history. What of the future. It
depends on what is planned. A slow melting pot with the power centres moving
to the middle east and china. A rerun of the decline and fall of the Roman
empire? Or a violent race war deliberately created by the elites.
What is certain is that the future will be totally unlike anything in the
recent past.
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