1 thought on “The Karl Marx on my Shoulder”

1. If you’re treating the advice of Karl Marx as a kind of conscience, then you’re in worse trouble than you seem to understand. He was a man singularly without a conscience, who kept his wife in poverty simply because he believed that work of any kind was “beneath him”. He wandered from great house to great house across Europe during his lifetime, bludging off of the generosity of the wealthy until he’d ticked them off enough to be kicked out – at which point he’d travel on to the next great house and bludge off of them. In the end, he and his wife died poor and young.

   Marx was a man deeply detached from reality, and justified his laziness and blue-sky daydreaming by trying to play the political philosopher. But because of his detachment from the real world, his political philosophy was similarly detached and nonsensical. For which reason, its ultimate outworkings in the failed political system that is Communism are entirely comprehensible to anyone who actually approaches them with a rational understanding of such topics as economics and human psychology. The fact that some people still fall head over heels in love with that philosophy only shows how far people are prepared to run from reality in pursuit of an idea they like the sound of.

   For your own sanity and financial safety, stop basing your life choices on what you think a man like THAT would have to say about them. Because if you follow his example, you’re going to end up where he did – poor and alone without even a roof over your head. And you’ll have brought that fate on yourself, as he did, by your own unwise choices.

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