The Ugly Racism of Karl Marx

Commentary by Walter E. Williams on The Daily Signal.com:

Few people who call themselves Marxists have ever even bothered to read “Das Kapital.” If one did read it, he would see that people who call themselves Marxists have little in common with Marx.

For those who see Marx as their hero, there are a few historical tidbits they might find interesting. Nathaniel Weyl, himself a former communist, dug them up for his 1979 book, “Karl Marx: Racist.”

For example, Marx didn’t think much of Mexicans. When the United States annexed California after the Mexican War, Marx sarcastically asked, “Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it?”

Engels shared Marx’s contempt for Mexicans, explaining: “In America we have witnessed the conquest of Mexico and have rejoiced at it. It is to the interest of its own development that Mexico will be placed under the tutelage of the United States.”

Marx had a racial vision that might be interesting to his modern-day black supporters. In a letter to Engels, in reference to his socialist political competitor Ferdinand Lassalle, Marx wrote:

It is now completely clear to me that he, as is proved by his cranial formation and his hair, descends from the Negroes who had joined Moses’ exodus from Egypt, assuming that his mother or grandmother on the paternal side had not interbred with a n—–. Now this union of Judaism and Germanism with a basic Negro substance must produce a peculiar product.

Engels shared Marx’s racial philosophy. In 1887, Paul Lafargue, who was Marx’s son-in-law, was a candidate for a council seat in a Paris district that contained a zoo. Engels claimed that Lafargue had “one-eighth or one-twelfth n—– blood.”  [read more]

The Soviet Union was very nationalistic. Or maybe a better word is xenophobic. The country didn’t allow any foreign music imports. I guess the leadership thought it would contradict the communist propaganda they were spewing out. The funny thing is Putin said he liked The Beatles in an interview. The Beatles was an English rock band. So, how did he get their albums? Hmmm. It’s good to be king or one of the elites.

The Soviet Union did allow the TV show Dallas to be shown on TV there. But that only because they leaders wanted the public to see how greedy America was.  It backfired. The public saw much their own country sucked economically.