Karl Marx, racist [Hardcover]

Nathaniel Weyl (Author)

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• Hardcover: 283 pages
• Publisher: Arlington House (1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0870004484
• ISBN-13: 978-0870004483
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,944,985 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WARTS AND ALL, December 3, 2010

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John M. Lane "statesman and philosopher" (Hardin, Montana, USA) - See all my reviews
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This is a review of KARL MARX: RACIST by Nathaniel Weyl. Mine is the hardback edition published by a New York firm, Arlington House, in 1979. The book lacks a bibliography but has endnotes after each chapter which are sufficient to identify the author's sources. There is also a useful index. The dust jacket is bright red with the iconic solemn, bearded visage of Karl Marx staring into the distance imposed on a white Ku Klux Klan style hood. Not only is this an eye catching design, but it's a good summary of the author's analysis of Marx.

Weyl's research peeled away the accumulated layers of Communist hagiography and reveals Marx to have been a bigot of the first order. He used the proverbial "N word" just the way a Klan thug would. He hated the Jews, the Slavs, the Chinese and everybody else. If he was funny and clean-shaven, he'd be Archie Bunker instead of the fearless prophet of the downtrodden working classes.

Weyl passed away in 1975. Born in 1910, he was educated at Columbia College in New York and then did postgraduate work at the prestigious London School of Economics. He returned to the United States at the height of the Great Depression joined the Communist Party and got a job in one of President Roosevelt's "New Deal" agencies. He hob-nobbed with other Communists including Alger Hiss, but "found secret membership in this [Communist] cell while a US official duplicitous, and resolved my personal problem by resigning from the government."

Appalled by Stalin's cynical alliance with Hitler in 1939, Weyl left the Communist Party and began to notice some of the warts on its founder, Karl Marx. This book is his gift to us and it stands as a reminder of the kind of flawed man Marx really was. It should be required reading in every history and political science course on the planet.

It is original, well written, carefully researched and interesting for anybody who is a student of modern history, European history, totalitarianism, 20th century world history, especially the Cold War. I was impressed by this book and gave it five stars.

21 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great info!, February 12, 2002

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Nicholas Prata (Bear, De. United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Karl Marx, racist (Hardcover)

With the fall of Soviet Communism and the Capitalization of the remaining, obstensible, Communist states, this book is less important than it used to be...but is still a treasure trove. Want to find out what Marx was really like? Just how supremely hateful, racist and evil? Read this book.
The actual writing in not very good, but the research is impeccable; you will get the unvarnished Marx gems that American Intelligentsia has laundered.

18 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars To black intellectuals: Marx was a Racist, June 21, 2006

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Stephen E. Gruber (Victorville, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Karl Marx, racist (Hardcover)

Anyone who has done serious objective research will attest to the reliability and accuracy of this book. It is quite disarming and sad that so many black "leaders", W.E. du Bois for one, held such high esteem for a man who totally deprecated their race. Marx, of course, was greatly influenced by Darwin, and applied his theory to his own "research." But just as Marx was wrong in his predictions of capitalism, he was also wrong assuming a close connection of some races with the animal kingdom. Marx gets a Zero for his research; Weyl gets an A. Not necessarily the best book written in a literary sense, but the information is documented and valuable. Yes, go back and read Marx in his own original context. SG, Ph.D.: Prof. Philosophy and History/ Author