all gods.” This he qualifies by stating that he is against all gods on earth and in heaven that do not recognize human self-consciousness as the supreme godhead.
Marx was an avowed enemy of all gods, a man who had bought his sword from the prince of darkness at the price of his soul. He had declared it his aim to draw all mankind into the abyss and to follow them laughing.
Could Marx really have bought his sword from Satan?
His daughter Eleanor says that Marx told her and her sisters many stories when they were children. The one she liked most was about a certain Hans Röckle.
The telling of the story lasted months and months, because it was a long, long story and never finished. Hans Röckle was a witch … who had a shop with toys and many debts…. Though he was a witch, he was always in financial need. Therefore he had to sell against his will all his beautiful things, piece after piece, to the Devil…. Some of these adventures were horrifying and made your hair stand on end?
Is it normal for a father to tell his little children horrifying stories about selling one’s dearest treasures to the Devil? Robert Payne in his book Marx also recounts this incident in great detail, as told by Eleanor – how unhappy Röckle, the magician, sold the toys with reluctance, holding on to them until the last moment. But since he had made a pact with the Devil, there was no escaping it. Marx’s biographer continues,
There can be very little doubt that those interminable stories were autobiographical. He had the Devil’s view of the world, and the Devil’s malignity. Sometimes he seemed to know that he was accomplishing works of evil
When Marx had finished Oulanem and other early poems in which he wrote about having a pact with the Devil, he had no thought of socialism. He even fought against it. He was editor of a German magazine, the Rheinische Zeitung, which “does not concede even theoretical validity to Communist ideas in their present form, let alone desire their practical realization, which it anyway finds impossible…. Attempts by masses to carry out Communist ideas can be answered by a cannon as soon as they have become dangerous “
Marx Will Chase God from Heaven
After reaching this stage in his thinking, Marx met Moses Hess, the man who played the most important role in his life, the man who led him to embrace the Socialist ideal.
Hess calls him “Dr. Marx – my idol, who will give the last kick to medieval religion and politics.” To give a kick to religion was Marx’s first aim, not socialism.
Georg Jung, another friend of Marx at that time, writes even more clearly in 1841 that Marx will surely chase God from His heaven and will even sue Him. Marx calls
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