This day in history: Friedrich Engels died on this day (August 5) in 1895. Engels is described as a German philosopher, economist, historian, political theorist and revolutionary socialist...however he was also a Capitalist, and his Capitalistic activities (he was a wealthy German textile manufacturer) financed Karl Marx's ramblings against Capitalism. All of the larger than life Socialists, like Marx, Lenin and Trotsky were financed by Capitalists. See Who financed Lenin and Trotsky? When that money ran out, they usually ransacked and pillaged their own countrymen.
Even the National Socialist Hitler was heavily financed by Big Money, with names that include Prescott Bush (George Bush's Grandfather), Henry Ford, Max Warburg amongst others.
It's interesting that most of the leading minds of Christian anticapitalist-Socialistic thought in Engel's time were aristocrats: Villeneuve-Bargemont, de Mun, Liechtenstein, Vogelsang, Ketteler. It's interesting as well that Karl Marx's two closest friends were Engels (a wealthy textile businessman) and August Philips (a Dutch banker) who was also his cousin.
Marx and Engels, though writing about the rights of the working class, had nothing but disdain for the rabble. Engels enjoyed fox-hunting, and said it was a good preparation for military command. He was irreconcilably bourgeoise, even snobbish, refusing to marry his long-time love, because she was socially inferior to him. Marx was a snob that considered the lower classes as sacks of potatoes.
Karl Marx, once you examine his life closely, presents us with a person that lacked a single redeeming feature. Engels at least worked for a living.
Joke: Engels dies and goes to hell.
There he discovers that he has a choice: he can go to capitalist hell or to communist hell. Naturally, he wants to compare the two, so he goes over to capitalist hell.
There outside the door is the devil, who looks a bit like Ronald Reagan. “What’s it like in there?” asks Engels. “Well,” the devil replies, “in capitalist hell, they flay you alive, then they boil you in oil and then they cut you up into small pieces with sharp knives.”
“That’s terrible!” he gasps. “I’m going to check out communist hell!” He goes over to communist hell, where he discovers a huge queue of people waiting to get in. He waits in line. Eventually he gets to the front and there at the door to communist hell is a little old man who looks a bit like Karl Marx. “I’m still in the free world, Karl,” he says, “and before I come in, I want to know what it’s like in there.”
“In communist hell,” says Marx impatiently, “they flay you alive, then they boil you in oil, and then they cut you up into small pieces with sharp knives.”
"But… but that’s the same as capitalist hell!“ protests Engels, "Why such a long queue?”
“Well,” sighs Marx, “Sometimes we’re out of oil, sometimes we don’t have knives, sometimes not even hot water…”
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