Marx and Satan by Richard Wurmbrand

Posted by admin_akashic on Feb 15th, 2022 in History, Human

T W O – AGAINST ALL GODS

Satan in Marx’s Family

When he wrote the works quoted in the last chapter, Marx, a premature genius, was only eighteen. His life’s program had thus already been established. He had no vision of serving mankind, the proletariat, or socialism. He merely wished to bring the world to ruin, to build for himself a throne whose bulwark would be human fear.

Marx 1839

At that point, correspondence between Karl Marx and his father included some especially cryptic passages. The son writes,

A curtain had fallen. My holy of holies was rent asunder and new gods had to be installed.

These words were written on November 10, 1837 by a young man who had professed Christianity until then. He had earlier declared that Christ was in his heart. Now this is no longer so. Who are the new gods installed in Christ’s place?

The father replies, “I refrained from insisting on an explanation about a very mysterious matter although it seemed highly dubious.”

What was this mysterious matter? No biographer of Marx has explained these strange sentences.

On March 2, 1837, Marx’s father writes to his son:

Your advancement, the dear hope of seeing your name someday of great repute, and your earthly well-being are not the only desires of my heart. These are illusions I had had a long time, but I can assure you that their fulfillment would not have made me happy. Only if your heart remains pure and beats humanly and if no demon is able to alienate your heart from better feelings, only then will I be happy.