The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration

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Last update: 12-21-2024


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Two decades after the publication of The Black Book of Communism, nearly everyone is or at least should be aware of the immense evil produced by that devilish ideology first hatched when Karl Marx penned his Communist Manifesto two centuries ago. Far too many people, however, separate Marx the man from the evils wrought by the oppressive ideology and theory that bears his name. That is a grave mistake. Not only did the horrific results of Marxism follow directly from Marx’s twisted ideas, but the man himself penned some downright devilish things. Well before Karl Marx was writing about the hell of communism, he was writing about hell.

“Thus Heaven I’ve forfeited, I know it full well,” he wrote in a poem in 1837, a decade before his Manifesto. “My soul, once true to God, is chosen for Hell.” That certainly seemed to be the perverse destiny for Marx’s ideology, which consigned to death over 100 million souls in the 20th century alone.

No other theory in all of history has led to the deaths of so many innocents. How could the Father of Lies not be involved?

At long last, here, in this book by Professor Paul Kengor, is a close, careful look at the diabolical side of Karl Marx, a side of a man whose fascination with the devil and his domain would echo into the 20th century and continue to wreak havoc today. It is a tragic portrait of a man and an ideology, a chilling retrospective on an evil that should have never been let out of its pit.


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  • Dan
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book! Tons of great info inside!
    Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2020
    Kengor is a true expert on this subject and one of the handful of people where I'll actively seek out their work to read and learn. This is book, The Devil and Karl Marx, is another solid Kengor effort. Lot's of important content here.

    The info on Marx, which covers roughly the first third of the book, goes a long way to confirming some of my own personal theories on the nature of Communism. IMO, Communism isn't so much a collection of economic policies, but a psychological phenomena, whereby losers and degenerates and resentful people take revenge and try to harm others. This book shows that Marx was a loser in his personal life and through an analysis of Marx's "literary work" that he did indeed like to see people destroyed and consistently worked with hellish imagery.

    The other point it shows is that Marx was intent on subverting Christianity. That is a theme that runs through the book. Concrete examples of how Marxists would focus on undermining Christianity and Christians.

    Another part that stood out to me as particularly important was the last section where Kengor goes through some more recent figures like Kate Millett and Wilhelm Reich who were founders of the morality which now dominates our society: feminism and so-called sexual freedom. One engaged in Maoist Communist rituals and the other was a sexual abuse victim who went on to practice bestiality. And the teachings of these people now define our society. Dear God!

    Oh yeah I also found the history on the founders of the ACLU, as well as the Foster-Fish Congressional testimony on the nature of the Communist Party of the United States particularly enlightening. I'm a sucker for that history of the origins of this movement in the United States.

    This book is good for anyone who wants to dig into Communism and gain a deeper understanding of what we are up against.
  • Al Jordan.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful read.
    Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2024
    The devil and Karl Marx explores how much influence that Satan or at the very least Satan as a symbol, has had and still has on Karl Marx and his followers up to this day.
  • Brett Stortroen
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent.
    Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2024
    Loved the first 1/3 the most.
  • Tablet Seeker
    5.0 out of 5 stars Buy This Book and Learn to Think for Yourself
    Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2020
    Don’t pay attention to the gaslighting reviewers who rate this book to be worthless and who condescendingly question the intelligence of readers offering positive reviews. This book is very well researched! The author supplies copious references and notes to reliable and trustworthy sources like depositions by sympathetic and non-sympathetic (= defectors from the cause) socialists before Congress, sworn affidavits, numerous secondary literature from those, like Lenin, who are sympathetic to Marx, as well a great number of defectors from communist countries who wrote memoirs, in addition to a numerous citations and quotations from the works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels and sympathetic, scholarly writers who interpret their ideas through biographies, commentaries, and literary criticism. There’s a lot here not to like, which has nothing to do with the author’s scholarship or the intelligence of the positive reviewers of this work. What’s not to like in this book is the bloody truth about the twisted, mendacious toxicity unleashed on the world through the activities and works of Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, and others like Lenin, Pol Pot, Joseph Stalin, and Mao who took their ideas and implemented them in history. The millions of dead, tortured, maimed, murdered, and killed tells the real story. This is what’s not to like about this book. As Alexandr Solzhenitsyn said in his famous Harvard address: “truth seldom is pleasant.” So, don’t allow the negative reviewers to dissuade you from buying and reading this unpleasant book which tells the truth about Karl Marx and all those inspired by his writings. Karl Marx’s conception of dialectical materialism and the revolutionary movements inspired by it have left a trail of death and destruction that are a matter of historical record! No amount of gaslighting can make the historical record go away, a record aptly attested to, albeit unpleasant, in this book. The thought police are well documented in this book and they are out in droves today as well, coercing others to think like themselves, or else. This is the way of Karl Marx, unpleasant because true. Buy this book and learn to reclaim your own mind and way of thinking from the social coercion and collective tyranny inspired by the writings of Karl Marx and his practitioners whose governments and movements institutionalized criminal behavior, as Paul Kengor’s impeccable research here demonstrates. The historical record is beyond dispute, and well attested in this book, and no amount of gaslighting can make it go away.
  • Champ
    4.0 out of 5 stars Marxist Review!
    Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2024
    This book is a tough but good read. Lots of names, places, and details to remember. If you want the true History of Marxism and how it has evolved over the decades then this book is a must read!
  • Richard earls
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
    Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2024
    A lot of insight into the way his mind worked. His poetry was satanic, as was his political view.
  • Janae Bosse
    5.0 out of 5 stars Book
    Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2024
    This was a gift . My father n' law loved it.
  • Antonio Salazar Valero
    5.0 out of 5 stars A horrid vision with a light of hope
    Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2024
    Powerful insight into the dark sewage of ideas spawned from a little angry man "Karl Marx." This is a must-read! Paul does an excellent job of providing us guidance through the hellish vapors of all these ideologies fueling communism, and God forbids the utter destruction of the human race.

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