Thornton Blackmore
Those who are familiar with history will well be aware that Karl Marx and other pioneers of socialism and communism have reserved no place for religion in their designs for the world. As Marx famously wrote in his Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right:
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
The espousal of atheistic sentiment by Marx and his contemporaries such as Frederick Engels in their dissertations has been surpassed in fervour only by the demonstration of religious hostility by those regimes who have sought to make a practical experiment of the ideology drafted by their fore-bearers.
Vladimir Lenin of the Soviet Union declared it plainly, that:
We must combat religion—that is the ABC of all materialism, and consequently of Marxism.
Far from being just a failed economic theory, it would seem that these tyrants of the hammer and sickle are as much at war with God as they are with the free market. For men professing themselves as atheists, one is left to wonder why Marx and his comrades expended so much effort in vilifying God who (in their eyes) ought not to exist.
Richard Wurmbrand, a Christian minister who survived imprisonment and torture during the Soviet occupation of Romania – undertook research into the man whose legacy he had witnessed first hand. Wurmbrand has authored several books, including the aptly titled Marx & Satan, which explores the occult origins of Marxism.
Insights garnered from a closer examination of the life of Marx and his ideology, suggest that the man was far from an atheist. Indeed, the evidence suggests that Marx indulged in Luciferian religion, and sought annihilation within the world as an act of defiance toward the Creator.
As Wurmbrand explains:
It is essential at this point to state emphatically that Marx and his comrades, while anti-God, were not atheists, as present-day Marxists claim to be. That is, while they openly denounced and reviled God, they hated a God in whom they believed. They challenged not His existence, but His supremacy.
These revelations may hold immense academic value in exploring the failures of Marxist-Leninist theory to deliver the utopia which was promised to the masses. Indeed, as poverty and persecution are the only fruits ever to be yielded from the communist crop, it may be reasonable to doubt whether the emancipation of the proletariat was ever the true intention driving Marx’s political thought.
Wurmbrand has alluded to such:
There is no support for the view that Marx entertained lofty social ideals about helping mankind, saw religion as a hindrance in fulfilling this ideal, and for this reason embraced an antireligious attitude. On the contrary, Marx hated any notion of God or gods. He determined to be the man who would kick out God-all this before he had embraced socialism, which was only the bait to entice proletarians and intellectuals to embrace this devilish ideal.
Notions of socialism in various forms predated Marx, who was convinced by a man named Moses Hess to adopt socialist ideals, and who did so only as a mechanism for a more sinister ideology.
Wurmbrand has written that:
When Marx had finished Oulanem and other early poems in which he wrote about having a pact with the Devil, he had no thought of socialism. He even fought against it. He was editor of a German magazine, the Rheinische Zeitung, which “does not concede even theoretical validity to Communist ideas in their present form, let alone desire their practical realization, which it anyway finds impossible…. Attempts by masses to carry out Communist ideas can be answered by a cannon as soon as they have become dangerous….”
Indeed, it would appear that Marx shared more in common with the infamous Aleister Crowley of sorcerous, deviant and blasphemous repute, than he ever did with those professing egalitarian ideals.
As with Crowley, Marx was raised in Christianity and in childhood demonstrated the usual devotional sentiment. Although time and place separates these two individuals, it is notable that in both cases Marx and Crowley abandoned their virtuous childhoods and ventured each on a warpath against the Divine. Both of them indulged in poetry, and an early piece by Marx may have foreshadowed the Iron Fortress which was later erected by the Soviets in his image.
In an excerpt from Invocation of One in Despair, Marx wrote:
So a god has snatched from me my all,In the curse and rack of destiny.All his worlds are gone beyond recall.Nothing but revenge is left to me.I shall build my throne high overhead,Cold, tremendous shall its summit be.For its bulwark – superstitious dread.For its marshal – blackest agony.Who looks on it with a healthy eye,Shall turn back, deathly pale and dumb,Clutched by blind and chill mortality,May his happiness prepare its tomb
The title of another poem by Marx, Oulanem is itself a crude inversion of the divine name Emmanuel. Indeed, Satanic inversion is a common ritual for those practicing witchcraft and Luciferian religion. This is clearly visible in Marx’s distortion of society in placing the pauper on the throne and of sending the clergy to the coal face.
While upside down crosses may be rarely found outside of occult circles, other symbols of Satanic inversion have been well known throughout modern history. For example, the swastika of the Nazi Party was a mirrored inversion of a divine Vedic symbol of the East. Even the peace symbol which was prolific during the cultural revolution of the sixties and seventies, is an inverted cross with both arms broken, contained within a circle.
An account by Marx’s former housemaid Helen Demuth, testifies that the devoutly atheistic Marx engaged in ritualistic worship of sorts. According to her account:
He was a God-fearing man. When very sick, he prayed alone in his room before a row of lighted candles, tying a sort of tape measure around his forehead.
Wurmbrand has commented that:
This suggests phylacteries, implements worn by Orthodox Jews during their morning prayers. But Marx had been baptized in the Christian religion, had never practiced Judaism, and later became a fighter against God. He wrote books against religion and brought up all his children as atheists. What was this ceremony which an ignorant maid considered an occasion of prayer? Jews, saying their prayers with phylacteries on their foreheads, don’t usually have a row of candles before them. Could this have been some kind of magic practice?
The abuse of religious articles such as phylacteries is a hallmark of Satanic ritual. Take the black mass for example, which is modeled on a Catholic mass, held at midnight to the light of black candles, where a naked woman serves as the alter, where prayers are read in reverse and the Bible is often defiled or burned, amongst other depravities.
Indeed, Luciferian worship may well have been a family affair in the Marx household. Marx’s son in law Edward Eveling was a prolific writer and lecturer of Satanism, while Marx’s own son Edgar addressed his father in a letter dated 31st March, 1854 as: My dear devil.
Most disconcertingly, Marx’s wife addressed her husband in a letter of August 1844: Your last pastoral letter, high priest and bishop of souls, has again given quiet rest and peace to your poor sheep.
Since when has a devout atheist ever occupied the post of ‘high priest’ and ‘bishop’? As Wurmbrand, himself a man of the cloth points out:
The only European religion with high priests is the Satanist one.
It is a feature of this kind of rebellion, that while the Creator cannot be assailed, those who seek to inflict harm upon Him, throw their tantrums instead upon the creation. Given consideration, there is a strong case to suggest that this spirit of chaos has been the real fabric of the communist movement all along.
Indeed, Wurmbrand has written to this effect:
As far as I know, Marx is the only renowned author who has ever called his own writings “shit,” “swinish books.” He consciously, deliberately gives his readers filth. No wonder, then, that some of his disciples, Communists in Romania and Mozambique, forced prisoners to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine.
Governments modeling themselves on Marxist-Leninist theory have outdone all others in the scale and veracity of their persecution of spiritual faiths. Many nightmares unleashed during the Communist occupation of Eastern Europe are well documented and freely available for those who can bear to read them.
Take for example the plight of Father Kovalyk, whose fate has been described by Wurmbrand thus:
Dr. O. Sas-Yavorsky (U.S.A.), after the capture of Lviv by the Germans near the end of June 1941, went searching for his imprisoned father and saw in the jail a priest nailed to a cross. Into his slashed stomach the Communists had placed the body of an unborn baby, taken from the womb of its mother, whose corpse lay on the blood-soaked floor. Other eyewitnesses recognized that this was the body of the renowned missionary Father Kovalyk.
Though the Iron Curtain of Eastern Europe has long since fallen, similar atrocities are prolific in modern day communist China.
Western so-called democracies have long turned a blind eye to the harvesting of organs from prisoners of conscience by the Chinese Communist Party regime. Falun Gong spiritualists held as livestock by the regime are in particular demand by customers due to their organs being considered healthier due to the cultivation of chi (vitality) during their meditation.
Other religious groups such as the Uighur Muslims and Tibetan Buddhists have also been reportedly harvested for organs, while minority groups in China are regularly subjected to forced labour, re-education (brainwashing), forced sterilisation, torture and internment in concentration camps.
As Wurmbrand rightly points out:
Marxists are supposed to be atheists who believe in neither heaven nor hell. In these extreme circumstances, Marxism has lifted its atheistic mask to reveal its true face, the face of Satanism. Communist persecution of religion might have a human explanation, but the fury of such perverse persecution can only be Satanic.
It is largely irrelevant whether or not one adheres to a Biblical or Abrahamic worldview, wherein the Infernal deities of the Luciferian may best be recognised. Regardless of one’s religion or lack thereof, the point is that certain people do believe in such things and they are often more zealous than most.
Thus far, the Red Devil has trodden its jackboots across Europe, Asia, South America and Africa throughout the past century – and now it is seeking to quench itself on the lifeblood of the free markets in the West.
For too long our Western universities, whose fancies have often been stolen by the romantic ideals of Marxist theory, have failed to educate our youth appropriately. And now in 2020, the Marxists are harvesting their bounty.
Editor Note: The Lenin quote at the end has been removed due to its authenticity being disputed.
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