Karl Marx, 1818 to 1883, was given numerous opportunities throughout
his lifetime to display his economic theories with large sums of money he
acquired by inheritances, a
dowry, generous gifts from friends, and, although he could have lived a
comfortable middle class life with his family, his personal economic principles
led them to suffer in the slums of London for most of their lives.
His reckless partying in college developed into an
undisciplined manner that regarded anyone who disagreed with him or his ideals
as a despicable human being that should be verbally “annihilated”.
In Marx’s statement “Nothing that is human is foreign to me”[1],
he summarizes his lifetime of human depravity in the sinful actions that made
up his life; greed, lust, hypocrisy, self-importance, and the love of money are
all characteristics of the works of the flesh.
[1] Franz Mehring, Karl Marx, p. xii.
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