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

Paul Kengor

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.

Paul Kengor is professor of political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pa., and senior director and chief academic fellow at the college’s Institute for Faith & Freedom. Dr. Kengor is author of nearly twenty books and several bestsellers, including A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism, and Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century. He also serves as senior editor and columnist for The American Spectator and is a regular contributor to the National Catholic Register and Crisis Magazine.

Item No:   2808
Pages:   552
ISBN:   9781505114447
Publisher:   Saint Benedict Press, LLC
Imprint:   TAN Books 
Publication Date:   August 18, 2020
Binding:   Hardcover
Dimensions:   5.5 x 8.5 

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