Communism then and now

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle.

~ Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, "The Manifesto of the Communist Party" (1848)

 
Today's column continues my review of Dr. Benjamin Wiker's fascinating opus, "10 Books that Screwed up the World and 5 others that didn't Help" (Regnery, 2008). My critique will be on Marxism's founder, Karl Marx, and the chief propagandist of communism, Friedrich Engels, and their celebrated book, "The Manifesto of the Communist Party" (1848).

Wiker wastes no time in detailing the genocide with which Marx's communist philosophy has plagued society even to this day: "Never have so few pages done so much damage. The damage has for the most part already been accomplished, and Marxism itself (outside China) mainly stirs papers at academic conferences. But communism offered one heck of a lesson. On body count alone, 'The Communist Manifesto' could win the award for the most malicious book ever written … perhaps upwards of 100,000,000 – even the tenured Marxists are a bit squeamish about tooting the Manifesto as a horn of plenty."

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