Thursday 5 June 2008

Karl Marx and Metaphysical Rebellion

In the light of the previous post about historical rebellion having at perhaps unexpected source metaphysical rebellion, it's interesting to look at the case of Karl Marx and some of his artistic emanations. (Most of what follows taken from an article elsewhere, so dodgy prose possibly not my ownbut the quoted pieces are verified Marx produce) Here one can peruse Marx's poetry, and in one of these poems, Marx wrote: "I long to take vengeance on the One Who rules from above." Sounds a very strange thing for an atheist to write. Atheists of course have very little interest in taking vengeance on non-existent deities. Though perhaps he simply meant a higher secular throne. A deeper look may help clarify. 

The following lines are taken from "Conjuration of Falling into Despair." I'll set up my throne above, Cold and terrible will be the peak of it. Superstitious trembling is at its base, Master - most black agony. The one who will look with healthy looks, Will turn away, turn pale and deadly mute. Possessed by blind and cold deathness, will prepare a tomb with his happiness. The words "I'll set up my throne" and his confession that agony and fear will go forth from the one who is sitting upon the throne, are reminiscent of the following attributed to Lucifer: "I will ascend to heaven, higher than God's stars I will set up my throne" (Isiah 14:13). The play Oulanem contains the verse "Nidler": Hellish evaporations rise and fill my brains, Until I will go mad and my heart will not change dramatically. See this sword? The King of darkness sold it to me. 
 Appraently during the rituals of higher dedication into a satanic cult, a bewitched sword that guarantees a success is sold to the candidate. He pays for it by signing with his blood taken from his vein the contract which makes his soul belong to Satan after death. And more from Oulanem: For he is marking time and giving signs. Bolder and bolder I play the dance of death. And they too: Oulanem, Oulanem. This name sounds like death, Sounds until won't stop in miserable shapes. Halt! Now I have it. It rises from my soul, Clear as air, hard as my bones. And still, you personified mankind, I may take you by the power of my mighty hands and crush with fierce force In the meantime, as the abyss gapes before me and you in the darkness, You will fall in it and I'll follow you, Laughing and whispering into your ear: "Come down with me, friend!" The time to die has come for Oulanem. These are his words: Perished, perished. My time is over. The clock has stopped, the tiny building has fallen. Soon I'll squeeze eternity to me, and with a wild cry Will speak out a curse to all mankind. 
 Marx liked to repeat Mephistopheles' words from Goethe's "Faust": "all existing is worthy to be destroyed." Members of a Satanic cult are not materialists. They believe in life after death. Oulanem does not deny life after death, but acknowledges it as a life full of hate to the highest degree. Hah, eternity, our eternal pain, Indescribable, unmeasurable death! Disgusting, artificially conceived, To despise us - We, who ourselves, as a clock mechanism Blindly mechanical, created to be Foolish calendars of time and space, Without any purpose, Besides accidental appearance for destruction.
Funny how little emphasis is ever put on these writings of Marx, isn't it? Hah! Tortured on the burning wheel, I must happily dance in the circle of eternity: If there would be anything beyond it, I'd jump into it, even if I had to destroy the world for it. Build between it and me! It must be destroyed with curses. I'll supress stubborn existence by my hands. Embracing me, it should calmly fade out. And then - down to nowhere. Completely disappear, and not to be - that would be - the life.
Oulanem is perhaps unique for being the only drama in which all the players are so sure of their damned state and revel in it as on a holiday. There is no lightening of shade. All of its players are demonic and doomed to perish. At this stage, the young Marx's views were developing. Some mysterious things appear in his correspondence with his father. For instance, the son writes: "The cover has fallen, my Holy of Holies was emptied and there was a need to put new gods there." This was written on November 10, 1837 by the heretofore Christian. What new gods replaced Christianity's place? Marx also wrote: I have lost heaven, And know that for sure. My soul, once faithful to God, Now is destined for hell. All the quoted material can be found in the linked Marx poetry homepage above.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_3_urbanities-how_and_how_no.html

good essay comparing Marx and Turgenev (apparently they were contemporaries)

Anonymous said...

http://www.theakurians.com/pictureofhell.htm is really more like what happens.

Anonymous said...

“Communism is not [and never was] a creation of the masses to overthrow the Banking establishment, but rather a creation of the Banking establishment to overthrow and enslave the people.”

1917, Lenin was in Switzerland and had been in Western Europe since 1905 when he was exiled for trying to topple the Czar in the abortive Communist revolution of that year. Trotsky also was in 'exile, a reporter for a Communist newspaper on the lower east side of New York City. The Bolsheviks were not a visible political force at the time the Czar abdicated. And they came to power not because the downtrodden masses of Russia called them back, but because very powerful men in Europe and the United States sent them in.

Lenin was sent across Europe-at-war on the famous "sealed train." With him Lenin took some $5 to $6 million in gold. The whole thing was arranged by the German high command and Max Warburg, through another very wealthy and lifelong socialist by the name of Alexander Helphand alias "Parvus." When Trotsky left New York aboard the S.S. Christiania, on March 27, 1917, with his entourage of 275 revolutionaries, the first port of call was Halifax, Nova Scotia. There the Canadians grabbed Trotsky and his money and impounded them both......... Then all of a sudden the British (through future Kuhn, Loeb partner Sir William Wiseman) and the United States (through none other than the ubiquitous "Colonel" House) pressured the Canadian government. And, despite the fact we were now in the war, said, in so many words, "Let Trotsky go." Thus, with an American passport, Trotsky went back to meet Lenin. They joined up, and, by November, through bribery, cunning, brutality and deception, they were able (not to bring the masses rallying to their cause but) to hire enough thugs and make enough deals to impose out of the gun barrel what Lenin called "all power to the Soviets." The Communists came to power by seizing a mere handful of key cities. In fact, practically the whole Bolshevik Revolution took place in one city-Petrograd. It was as if the whole United States became Communist because a Communist-led mob seized Washington, D. C. It was years before the Soviets solidified power throughout Russia.
...... The two Germans most responsible for the financing of Lenin were Max Warburg and a displaced Russian named Alexander Helphand...... The picture takes on another dimension when you consider that the brother of Max Warburg was Paul Warburg, prime mover in establishing the Federal Reserve System and who from his position on the Federal Reserve Board of Directors, played a key role in financing the American war effort. (When news leaked out in American papers about brother Max running the German finances, Paul resigned from his Federal Reserve post without a whimper.)

For the father-in-law of Max Warburg's brother, Felix, was Jacob Schiff, senior partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co. (Paul and Felix Warburg, you will recall, were also partners in Kuhn, Loeb & Co. while Max ran the Rothschild-allied family bank of Frankfurt.) Jacob Schiff also helped finance Leon Trotsky. According to the New York Journal-American of February 3, 1949: "Today it is estimated by Jacob's grandson, John Schiff, that the old man sank about 20,000,000 dollars for the final triumph of Bolshevism in Russia." (See Chart 6.)
One of the best sources of information on the financing of the Bolshevik Revolution is Czarism and the Revolution by an important White Russian General named Arsene de Goulevitch who was founder in France of the Union of Oppressed Peoples. In this volume, written in French and subsequently translated into English, de Goulevitch notes:

"The main purveyors of funds for the revolution, however, were neither the crackpot Russian millionaires nor the armed bandits of Lenin. The 'real' money primarily came from certain British and American circles which for a long time past had lent their support to the Russian revolutionary cause."

-"Actually, I destroyed Joe McCarthy because I introduced him to the real origins of Communism, which was the international bankers. He knew nothing about that. He thought Communists were little Jewish tailors on the Lower East Side of New York. I showed him the connections between international bankers like the Rothschilds and Communism. You can't have a worldwide movement without a lot of money behind it. It's like when the circus comes to town. You have to pay someone to hang the posters". [Interview 2003] by Tom Valentine