The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration

by Paul Kengor

Overview

Two decades after the publication of The Black Book of Communism, nearly everyone is or at least should be, aware of the immense evil produced by that devilish ideology first hatched when Karl Marx penned his Communist Manifesto two centuries ago. Far too many people, however, separate Marx the man from the evils wrought by the oppressive ideology and theory that bears his name. That is a grave mistake. Not only did the horrific results of Marxism follow directly from Marx’s twisted ideas, but the man himself penned some downright devilish things. Well before Karl Marx was writing about the hell of communism, he was writing about hell.
 
“Thus Heaven I’ve forfeited, I know it full well,” he wrote in a poem in 1837, a decade before his Manifesto. “My soul, once true to God, is chosen for Hell.” That certainly seemed to be the perverse destiny for Marx’s ideology, which consigned to death over 100 million souls in the twentieth century alone.
 
No other theory in all of history has led to the deaths of so many innocents. How could the Father of Lies not be involved?
 
At long last, here, in this book by Professor Paul Kengor, is a close, careful look at the diabolical side of Karl Marx, a side of a man whose fascination with the devil and his domain would echo into the twentieth century and continue to wreak havoc today. It is a tragic portrait of a man and an ideology, a chilling retrospective on an evil that should have never been let out of its pit.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781505114447
Publisher:	TAN Books
Publication date:	08/18/2020
Pages:	552
Sales rank:	399,971
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Paul Kengor, Ph.D., is a bestselling author whose works include Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century; God and Ronald Reagan; and The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis—The Story of Barack Obama's Mentor, among others. His articles regularly appear in publications ranging from USA Today to the New York Times, plus numerous academic journals. A professor at Grove City College, Kengor is a frequent commentator on television and radio. Kengor earned his bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh and his master’s from American University.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Preface: "The Dance of Death," The Communist Killing Machine xv

Part 1 The Specter

1 "A Specter Is Haunting Europe," The Unclean Spirit of Communism 3

Part 2 Karl Marx

2 "My Soul Is Chosen for Hell," Marx's Verse 33

3 "Governed by a Demon?" Marx's Miseries 57

4 "Monster of Ten Thousand Devils," Engels Encounters Marx 95

Part 3 The Bolshevik War on Religion and the Church's Resistance

5 "We Do Not Believe in God," Lenin's Necrophilia 107

6 "Satanic Scourge," The Church on Atheistic Communism 135

Part 4 Infiltration and Manipulation

7 "Liquidating Religious Beliefs," William Z. Foster and CPUSA 163

8 "Outstretched Hand," Earl Browder's Backhand 185

9 "Obliterating All Religion," Louis Budenz and Ben Gidow Speak Out 219

10 "The Devil Doth Quote the Scripture," Manning Johnson on the Infiltration of the Church 249

11 "Over a Thousand Communist Men," Infiltration of Catholic Seminaries? Bella Dodd's Claims 275

12 "They Kept a Tab," Seminaries, Churches, and Clergy Behind the Iron Curtain 301

Part 5 They Are Legion

13 "The World's Wickedest," Minions, Pagans, Weirdos, Radicals 321

14 "The Specter of the Frankfurt School," More Minions, Pagans, Weirdos, Radicals 345

Part 6 Conclusion

15 "Fundamental Transformation," Marx's Enduring Specter 379

Acknowledgments 403

Endnotes 407

Index 449