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1st of an upcoming series of portraits that I should post here and there as part of an effort to spread knowledge and awareness.
He seemed a good emblematic figure, our buddy Karl, and besides controversial enough to start with (or at least raise eyebrows in any kinda tribute).
Noam Chomsky points at anti-communism being a religion in NA so indeed you will understand that this is not a popularity contest.
Fact is, you probably argued somewhere somehow with somebody who thought you should read the guy before talking about his theories or maybe you were the one in the know trying to spread the awareness.
Reading Marx actually takes you way beyond reading and trying to understand 'the Capital' or 'the Manifesto'.
It necessarily takes you through reading the theories of his time which were disagreeing with him, such as Steiner (thinker behind anarchism who was at school with Marx and opposing him was the most intellectually troublesome of his enemies).
It takes you through the whole History of the 19th century, from the first Napoleon to the Victorian era preceding WWI.
From the early corruption of the ideals of the french revolution (Liberty, equality, Fraternity is still the credo but it took every bit of strength to enforce it and it is still far from won) to the wide instrumentalisation of the Military (Bonaparte by attacking everybody kinda made Europe) to the further use of Military Leverage to crush public questioning (the French civil war of 1870, thousands of people were machine gunned down in Paris streets by a returning self-exiled government of financial magnates using french troops they had lost against Germany and had to pay a ransom for).
Reading 'the Civil War in France' (1870-1891)' from which this quote is from depicts a historical situation far different than the Russian revolution.
One called 'the Commune of Paris', which gave in turn (for worse though) the term 'Communism' so often misemployed.
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I should upload a downloadable large print version shortly.
