Was Karl Marx a racist?

[armedoldhippy]

As I've stated before. I've never given money to a political candidate nor have I ever been to political rally.

i went to a rally for a GOP candidate in Hawkins County once, years ago. well, we were actually dropping off an oz to a guy there. you don't need a real reason to stand out in a field at night while the fireflies light up the world. the people there seemed harmless enough at the time...

 

[h.h.]

Here's a link proving that America's Founding Fathers were also racist as fuck.

Writers of the Constitution were all racist. As was normal at the time.

Guess what? Times changes and ideas that were once socially acceptable are no longer acceptable. Or is that too difficult a concept for you to wrap your brain around?

They didn’t care much for women either.

 

[mean mr.mustard]

That's why they wore wigs.

 

[GOT_BUD?]

They didn’t care much for women either.

Good point. I forgot mysoginistic.

 

['Boogieman']

The left loves to demonize our founding fathers for being racist, but when it comes to Karl Marx he gets a pass

 

[GOT_BUD?]

Did you miss the tiny word "also" in there? Or the part where I said "it was once socially acceptable to be racist"? Hmm? Did ya? Miss that little bit right there?

 

[Cannavore]

No one cares if a dude from 1812 was racist.

 

[Cannavore]

"In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded."


Slaves owned by Karl Marx = 0
Slaves owned by Thomas Jefferson = 600+

 

[h.h.]

Thomas Jefferson was a rapist as well as an enslaver. Seen by some historians as a liberal anti capitalist.

Thomas Jefferson's Liberal Anticapitalism on JSTOR

Claudio J. Katz, Thomas Jefferson's Liberal Anticapitalism, American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 47, No. 1 (Jan., 2003), pp. 1-17

www.jstor.org

 

[therevverend]

These discussions of who and who wasn't a racist in the 18th and early 19th century are hilarious. EVERYONE was racist then. EVERYONE believed in the Bible. There was no such thing as evolution, or human rights or animal welfare or equal rights for women or unions or a minimum wage or environmentalism or medicine. If you didn't like someone you could challenge them to a duel and kill them. Just getting enough food and not getting sick and dying was all people had time for. Unless you were rich, then some of the time you wouldn't have to worry about starving. Despite all the differences they were people, just like us, and if we lived in a world like that we'd be like they were.

One thing people don't understand is that the abolitionists were racists too. People in the north were just as racist as people in the South. They believed slavery was immoral because they were trying to be good Christians and they opposed it for economic reasons. They were religious fanatics. They believed Africans were a lower type of human, descended from Cain. Because the bible. They didn't want them as slaves, they didn't want them around generally. Jim Crow was in the North too. Besides the separate but equal bullshit many towns had laws banning black people.

 

[armedoldhippy]

EVERYONE was racist then. EVERYONE believed in the Bible.

well...NO, and NO. not true then, not true now, not true ever.