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Indlæser... The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration (udgave 2020)af Paul Kengor (Forfatter)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. I throughly enjoyed “A Pope and A President” by Dr. Kengor, which was wonderful, and I do recommend to people, and was quite excited to read this book. However, it was poorly written and mostly a diatribe on how badly most biographies on Marx are written. We can tuck this one away with those. I looked forward to an in-depth biography of Marx; one with a more spiritual take on his life, as this one claimed to be. It was not. The biographical information was lacking, the writing and organization were very poor, and overall the book was difficult to read. If you are looking for an intro to communism and why it is one of the great evils of the world, you may find this book helpful. If you’re looking for a spiritual biography of Karl Marx, this is not it. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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 twentieth 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 twentieth 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. No library descriptions found. |
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The majority of the book's content goes into Marx's philosophy, the type of people who pushed it, and the destruction it caused. Many of these characters readers may be familiar with (Crowley), others not so much.
It's told from a heavily Catholic perspective, with many quotes from Popes, Fr Sheen, and statements made by the Vatican. I didn't find this too off-putting, but an Eastern Orthodox perspective would have also been welcomed, since the Eastern Bloc countries were ultimately the most negatively impacted from this philosophy. Fortunately, the book discusses the tragedies that fell on many Eastern Orthodox believers, namely Priests and members of the clergy in effort for them to renounce their faith, and is perhaps one of the darkest and visceral chapters of any book one will ever read. Absolutely necessary, but be warned.
The best I can say about it is that it covers a lot of ground, and not as dry as it could have been. That said, I'm not certain it warrants being 400+ pages long. It repeats itself quite a bit, and I understand that it's to drive certain points home, but I think that could have done that in 325 pages without sacrificing content. ( )