Socialism doesn't work in the West because without cultural harmony, all the prospect of welfare does is incentivize parasitism and single-motherhood.
The New World Order - In 1940, Fabian socialist, H.G. Wells, who worked for the British Propaganda Bureau at Wellington House, published a book promoting a one world government, titled The New World Order, which the United Nations' charter drew heavily from: ''Countless people from Maharashtra to millionaires and from Pukka sahib to pretty ladies will hate the new world order, be rendered unhappy by frustration of their passions and ambitions through its advent and will die protesting against it.''
The World Economic Forum's tag-line is literally: 'you will own nothing and you you will be happy'. Executive chairman, Klaus Schwaub, who dresses like a Bond villain, described the need of a ''black swan event'' to bring this kind of scenario about. The WEF hosted talks by (((Yuval Harari))), who looks like a goblin and stomps around stages lecturing, in shrill voice, about maximizing physical pleasure in a Matrix scenario as the highest moral end, at the expense of individual sovereignty.
Karl Marx
(((Karl Marx'))) father, Heinrich Marx, a lawyer, whose name originally was Herschel Halevai Marx, was the son of a rabbi and Talmudic scholar, descended from the famous rabbi Eleazar Halevai of Metz, whose son Jehuda Metz was head of the Talmudic school of Padua. Marx's mother, Henrietta Pressburg, was a daughter of a rabbi likewise descended from famous scholars and sages.
Das Kapital - Das Kapital is a series of essays glued together without any real form without a central argument acting as an organizing principle. Marx originally, in 1857, conceived the work as consisting of six volumes, but the methodical self-discipline needed to carry through with it proved beyond him. In short, all the first part of Marx's examination of working conditions is based on a single work, Friedrich Engels' Condition of the Working Class in England, published years before.
Marx used out-of-date material because up-to-date material did not support his case; he selected certain industries where conditions were particularly bad as typical of capitalism. His thesis was that capitalism produces ever-worsening conditions for workers, the evidence he quoted at length to justify this came almost entirely from small, inefficient, under-capitalized firms in archaic industries, which in most cases were pre-capitalist. i.e. pottery, dressmaking, blacksmiths, baking, matchmakers, wallpaper and lace for instance. Using reports of the factory inspectorate, Marx quoted examples of bad conditions and ill-treatment of workers as though they were the inevitable norm of the system. In fact, these were the responsibility of what the inspectors themselves called the fraudulent mill owner, whom they were appointed to detect and prosecute, thus were in the process of being eliminated anyway. Around the same time, Parliament passed the Factory Acts, to further ensure this.
Contempt for the working class - In 1845, Marx paid a brief visit to London and attended a meeting of the German Workers' Education Society. These men were mostly skilled workers, watchmakers, printers and shoemakers; their leader was a forester; they were self-educated, disciplined, solemn, well-mannered and very anti-Bohemian/anti-liberal. They did not share Marx's apocalyptic visions, and above all, they did not speak in his academic jargon, so he viewed them with contempt, considering them to be revolutionary canon-fodder.
Marx always preferred to associate with middle-class intellectuals like himself. When he and Engels created the Communist League, and again when they formed the International, Marx made sure that working-class socialists were eliminated from positions of influence and sat on committees merely as statutory proles. His motive was partly that men with actual experience of factory conditions tended to be anti-violence and in favor of modest progressive improvements.
In 1846, Marx subjected William Veitling to a kind of trial before a meeting of the Communist League in Brussels. Veitling was the poor illegitimate son of a laundress who never knew his father; a tailor's apprentice who by sheer hard work and self-education had won himself a large following among German workers. According to Marx, he was guilty of: ''conducting an agitation without doctrine.'' Veitling replied that he had not become a socialist to learn about doctrines manufactured in a study; he spoke for actual working men and would not submit to the views of mere theoreticians. This, said an eyewitness, so enraged Marx that he struck his fist on the table so violently that the lamp shook. Jumping to his feet, he shouted: "Ignorance has never helped anybody yet." The meeting ended with Marx still striding up and down the room in violent rage.
Low impulse control - At Bonn University, the police arrested him for possessing a pistol, and he was very nearly sent down. The university archives show he engaged in student warfare, fought a duel, and got a gash on his left eye. His rows within the family darkened his father's last years and led eventually to a total breach with his mother. One of his wife's earliest surviving letters reads: ''Please do not write with so much rancor and irritation''. According to his wife, the rows were perpetual; in Paris, his editorial meetings in the Rue de Moulin had to be held behind closed windows, so that people outside could not hear the endless shouting. Marx quarreled with everyone; one associate, Karl Heinzen, said that he had a habit of saying: "I will annihilate you." Marx was so abusive during a row with August von Willeck in 1850, that the latter challenged him to a duel. Marx, though a former duelist, said he would not engage in the frolics of Prussian officers, but made no attempt to stop his young assistant, Konrad Schramm, from taking his place, though Schramm had never used a pistol in his life and Willeck was an excellent shot; Schramm was badly wounded.
Marx drank daily, and often heavily; took very little exercise, ate highly spiced foods, often in large quantities, smoked heavily, drank a lot, and as a result had constant trouble with his liver. He took one or two baths every year and hardly washed his hands at all. This, plus his diet, caused a plague of boils from which he suffered for a quarter of a century. The boils varied in numbers and intensity, but at one time or another they appeared on all parts of his body. He wrote to Engles: ''Whatever happens, I hope the bourgeoisie as long as they exist will have cause to remember my carbuncles.''
In early middle age, he still found it difficult to work sensibly and systematically, often sitting up all night talking, then lying half asleep on the sofa for most of the day. In late middle age, he kept more regular hours, but he never became self-disciplined about work, resenting good advice from friends and benefactors.
Privilege and exploitation - Marx wrote about finance and industry all his life, but he knew only two people connected with their processes, Engles, and his uncle Phillips in Holland, who founded the Philips Electric Company. He only once consulted him on a technical matter of high finance, and though he visited Philips four times, these only concerned matters of family loans.
Marx argued that the family was quite rich and had a duty to support him in his important work. Marx never seriously attempted to get a real job, though he once applied for a post as a railway clerk in London, being turned down on the grounds that his handwriting was too poor.
He had a grotesque incompetence in handling money, driving him into the hands of money-lenders at high interest rates. Marx borrowed money heedlessly, spent it, then was invariably astounded and angered when the heavily discounted bills with interest came due. The last letter from his father written in 1838, when he was already dying, reiterated his complaint that Marx was indifferent to his family, except for the purpose of getting their help: "You are now in the fourth month of your law course and you have already spent 280 thalers. I have not earned so much throughout the entire winter." Three months later he was dead. Marx did not attend his funeral; instead, he started putting pressure on his mother, who not only refused to pay his debts, believing he would simply contract more, but eventually cut him off completely. In one last letter to him, she wrote: "I wish you would accumulate capital instead of just writing about it."
Marx got considerable sums of money by inheritance. His father's death brought him 6,000 gold francs, some of which he spent arming Belgian workmen. Other sums came in through his wife, Jennifer and her family; she also brought with her, a part of her wedding portion, a silver dinner service with the coat of arms of her Scottish Argyll ancestors. Between them they received enough money, sensibly invested, to provide a competence, and at no point did their actual income fall below £200 a year, three times the average wage of a skilled workman. Nevertheless, they were always in debt, and often seriously, and the silver dinner service regularly went to the pawnbrokers along with much else.
The principal victims of Marx' unwillingness to work were his own household, his wife above all. Jennifer Marx had the clear Scottish coloring, pale skin, green eyes and auburn hair of her paternal grandmother, descended from the second Earl of Argyll. It took many years of bitterness for her love or Karl to die. Marx was proud of his wife's noble Scottish descent and her position as the daughter of a Baron and senior official in the Prussian government. Two years before Marx's own death, Jennifer committed suicide with an overdose of opium, in what may have been a failed suicide pact.
Helen de Muth, known in the family as Lenchen, joined the von Westphalen family at the age of eight as a nursery maid. She got her keep but was paid nothing. In 1845 the Baroness, who felt sorrow and anxiety for her married daughter, gave Lenchen, then 22, to Jennifer Marx to ease her lot. She remained in the Marx family until her death in 1890. Eleanor called her the most tender of beings to others while throughout her life, a stoic to herself.
Lenchen had an illegitimate son by Karl, born at the Soho Address on 2018 Street in 1851; Marx refused to acknowledge his responsibility, flatly denying the rumors that he was the father. Lenchen was the only member of the working class that Marx ever knew well at all. She helped raise his daughters, washed his britches and darned his clothes, yet never received a farthing. Their illegitimate son, Frederick, was brought up as a working-class lad, and at the age of 36, got his coveted certificate as a qualified engineer and fitter. He spent virtually all of his life in Kings Cross and Hackney and was a regular member of the Engineers Union. Yet Karl Marx never knew him; they met only once, presumably when he was coming up the outside steps from the kitchen, with no idea that the revolutionary philosopher, his father, was the man pouring tea in the kitchen.
In tribute to Marx, there's a giant monument of his head in Chemnitz, Germany, nicknamed Karl-Marx-Stadt. (Karl Marx City)
By: Vertigo Politix
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