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Why Not Cancel Karl Marx?
Racism and anti-Semitism were second nature to him, and yet the cancel culture gives him a free pass every time.
Racism and anti-Semitism were second nature to him, and yet the cancel culture gives him a free pass every time.
Why Not Cancel Karl Marx? - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
In a cancel culture targeting everyone from Confederate to Union generals, Columbus to Winston Churchill, one wonders why Karl Marx goes untouched.
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In a cancel culture targeting everyone from Confederate to Union generals, Columbus to Winston Churchill, Francis Scott Key to even Abraham Lincoln and all of Mt. Rushmore, and where the racial statements and attitudes of every historical figure are scrutinized, it’s funny who gets a pass.
There are monuments to Marx in Europe, one just erected in 2018. In the United States, there’s a handsome profile of Marx carved in porcelain at one of the Smithsonian museums and a flowery painting at the Guggenheim. In 2018, for the bicentennial of his birth, one of America’s top colleges, Carnegie Mellon University, held a yearlong celebration of Marx, including an accompanying art exhibit dedicated to the man. And who knows how many busts of Marx sit in professors’ offices, safe from protesting college students with spray-cans.
Of course, the reality is that Marx gets a pass from the left because he’s of the left. Leftists ignore or try to separate him from the ideology bearing his name that helped produce over 100 million deaths in the 20th century alone. The dread “dead white European male” tag conveniently eludes Karl Marx, nor does he raise the needle on the Left’s bigotry meter. But alas, he should.
A 16-foot-tall bronzed Vladimir Lenin stands unscathed in liberal Seattle, and a new monument to the Bolshevik godfather just went up in Germany. Particularly curious, one wonders why Karl Marx goes untouched.
Karl Marx was, after all, a bigot. His attitude toward blacks and Jews alone (not to mention women) would stun Stonewall Jackson. Ugly racial-ethnic stereotypes by Marx are littered throughout his writings.
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Much more could be said. This is far from a full testimony of Marx’s awful attitudes.
Remember: the Left’s standard for canceling a historical figure is bigotry. And really, it often takes only one offensive statement from an entire lifetime. That being the case, why hasn’t Karl Marx been canceled? Why aren’t angry mobs staging sit-ins outside professors’ doors insisting their busts of Marx be tossed to the ash-heap of history? Why do universities celebrate the man? And where’s Black Lives Matter on this one?
We know the answer. Karl Marx is an icon to the Left. Just like progressives’ calls for tolerance and diversity, their calls for canceling and removing are highly selective — or, more bluntly, highly hypocritical.
Comment:
Marx and his side kick Engels created a failed dystopian utopia in the minds of his acolytes even till the present day.
Factual proof of the total failure of this ideology has been proven time and again by Russia, China, Cuba, Cambodia, Nicaragua, and recently Venezuela.
Yet, it persists in America by the infiltration of Marxists educating our young. Saying they will get it right this time in America.
Look around at the death and destruction the Marxist Socialists have wrought so far this year in their Socialist Blue Plantation Sanctuary Cities.
