Vol. 34, No. 10
May 21, 2018
Karl Marx — The Father of Communism?
Though Karl Marx is credited with devising communism — in response to the conditions of the working poor — the ideology was taught to him mainly by wealthy intellectuals. ...
From the print edition of The New American
In 1853, a British official knocked on the door of a dwelling in a London slum to do a routine check on a political exile, a German socialist named Karl Marx. In his report, we get a glimpse of the man who is regarded as the “Father of Communism,” and whose 200th birthday anniversary fell on May 5.
Marx “lives in one of the worst, therefore one of the cheapest, neighborhoods in London. He occupies two rooms. The room looking out on the street is the parlor, and the bedroom is at the back. There is not one clean or decent piece of furniture in either room, but everything is broken, tattered or torn, with thick dust over everything and the greatest untidiness everywhere.”
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