THE SAME INSUFFERABLE ARROGANCE AND INSANE EGOTISM IN ANY LANGUAGE

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Following are some excerpted passages from the book THE NAKED COMMUNIST by W. Cleon Skousen (1958)...
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Carl Schurz, who actually met Karl Marx, wrote the following about him:
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"Never have I seen any one whose manner was more insufferably arrogant. He would not give me a moment's consideration to any opinion that differed from his own. He treated with open contempt everyone who contradicted him. ... Far from winning new adherents, he repelled many who might have been inclined to support him."
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Nine or ten pages later, there's this...
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Karl Marx projected into Communism the very essence of his own nature. His resentment of political authority expressed itself in a ringing cry for universal revolution. ...
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His personal attitude toward religion, morals and competition in everyday existence led him to long for an age when men would have no religion, morals or competition in everyday existence. He wanted to live in a classless, stateless, noncompetitive society where there would be such lavish production of everything that men, by simply producing according to their apparent ability, would automatically receive a superabundance of all material needs.
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Mikhail Bakunin, who also knew Karl Marx personally, observed that...
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"Marx is egotistical to the pitch of insanity... Marx loved his own person much more than he loved his friends and apostles, and no friendship could hold water against the slightest wound to his vanity... Marx will never forgive a slight to his person. You must worship him, make an idol of him, if he is to love you in return; you must at least fear him if he is to tolerate you. He likes to surround himself with pygmies, with lackeys and flatterers."
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I'll be dogged if that doesn't remind me of someone. Does that remind YOU of anyone you're familiar with? A certain blogger perhaps?
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English: Cowardly Lion. Spanish: León Cobarde.

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~ Stephen T. McCarthy
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