Both theoretician and practitioner, Marx strove to destroy Western civilization as we know it, by unraveling both strands of its cultural DNA and replacing them with his version of communism.
He repudiated the Abrahamic faiths with dialectical materialism: No God, one book (Das Kapital), one pamphlet (the Communist Manifesto), one profit (Karl Marx). He defied Aristotle by disording the hierarchy of arts and sciences, and promoting economics uber alles. He placed politics--and therefore all of the other arts and sciences under central economic control. This economic theory was intended to remedy the grevious wrongs suffered by the working classes during the Industrial Revolution, and was meant to spread worldwide. Capitalism was seen as evil, communism as good.
Marx himself privately envied the lives and lifestyles of the so-called "petty bourgeoisie"-- the middle class-- whom he accused of complicity in exploiting the proletariat. Having found a friend and benefactor in Frederick Engels, who himself had inherited factories in England's industrialized Midlands, Marx is eventually managed to lead the pampered upper-middle-class lifestyle that he otherwise sought to destroy--in a London town house and paid for by the sweat of the workers in Engels' factories.
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Nonetheless, Marxism represented the terminus of a widespread romantic and utopian European rebellion against the myriad sufferings of the hapless masses, imposed by successive centuries and layers of feudalism, monarchy, theocracy, mercantilism, imperialism, and industrialization. The ongoing democratic and socialist reforms were not enough for Marx, who sought more rapid and more radical change.
Source: The Middle Way. Finding Happiness in a World of Extremes (2007) by Lou Marinoff, Ph. D.
Capitalism is seen today by most of the far-Left as evil especially by far-Left professors. Then they teach this warped view to their students who grow up and teach this hate to their young. The hate continues. It doesn’t help if the parents of the students believe this crap too.
As for the Marx living a pampered upper-middle-class lifestyle—that’s expected. After all he is special—he’s one of the Elites.
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