This Day in History: Communist Leader Vladimir Lenin attended the funeral for Laura Marx (Lafargue) on this day in 1911, the daughter of Karl Marx, who died in a suicide pact with her husband.
Laura was not the only child of Karl Marx to commit suicide.
The man that Karl Marx was is summed up nicely by Connor Tomlinson:
"Marx was an alcoholic who never washed. Boils covered his body, preventing him from sitting down.
He refused to work, and drove his family to destitution -- causing the deaths of his two sons from exposure and illness.
He raped his unpaid maid, and had Engels subsidize their illegitimate child.
He wrote poetry romanticizing the ingesting of poison -- the method by which two of his daughters would later commit suicide.
One of those daughters Marx disowned for marrying a Cuban man, who Marx insulted as ‘Negrillo’ and ‘The Gorilla’.
Marx was also explicitly genocidal -- calling for ‘revolutionary terror’, theft, and murder against the ill-defined 'bourgeoisie'.
He said ‘the next attempt of the French revolution’ should be so bloody that ‘beside [it] the French Revolution [would be] child’s play’.
He forecast a dictatorship would inevitably arise from this bloody revolution, and require absolute power to collectivize and redistribute property to achieve communism.
He idolized Mephistopheles from Faust, insisting that ‘Everything that exists deserves to perish.’
No wonder every experiment with Marxism produces mass murder, privation, starvation, tyranny, and Hell on Earth.
Long after his death, Marx's specter of contempt for existence itself haunts our civilization.
We would do good to rid ourselves of it."
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