{"id":291079,"date":"2017-01-21T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-madness-of-karl-marx\/"},"modified":"2017-01-21T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T12:27:00","slug":"the-madness-of-karl-marx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-madness-of-karl-marx\/","title":{"rendered":"The Madness of Karl Marx"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/01\/the-madness-of-karl-marx\/bakunin_and_marx_from_russia_with_love_by_fabiotmb-d4sudim\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65305\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65305 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/bakunin_and_marx_from_russia_with_love_by_fabiotmb-d4sudim-e1484979568780.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deviantart.com\/art\/bakunin-and-marx-from-russia-with-love-290311150\" target=\"_blank\">bakunin and marx from russia with love<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recently read Wolfgang Eckhardt\u2019s <em>The First Socialist Schism<\/em>, and what I discovered disturbed me. A friend had told me that in it Karl Marx accused Mikhail Bakunin of wanting to be the dictator of the First International. The slapstick incongruity of the charge piqued my interest, and left me wondering if perhaps it were Groucho and not Karl who was its author. What I learned, however, was anything but amusing.<\/p>\n<p>I knew that there had been a clash between the two, and that it grew personal, and that the conflict led to a split in the International Working Men\u2019s Association [IWMA]. I knew that Marx had made allegations that few believed then and fewer do now. I also knew that each man had shamed himself with ethnic bigotry: the Jew for the Slav, and the Slav for the Jew. I knew that each accused the other of being an agent of the bourgeoisie. What I hadn\u2019t yet encountered was the visceral, primitive hatred Marx held for Bakunin, and the Machiavellian depths to which he and Friedrich Engels fell in order to banish their despised rival, even at the expense of the IWMA itself.<\/p>\n<p>Marx\u2019 private correspondence is littered with abuse. He refers to Bakunin as a \u201csavage,\u201d an \u201cidiot,\u201d \u201cignoramus,\u201d \u201ccharlatan,\u201d \u201cbeast,\u201d and worse. He continually asserts that Bakunin\u2019s positions are \u201chollow fancies\u201d devoid of theoretical or analytical value, \u201cempty phrase-mongering.\u201d He also bemoans Bakunin\u2019s lack&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/01\/the-madness-of-karl-marx\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bakunin and marx from russia with love I recently read Wolfgang Eckhardt\u2019s The First Socialist Schism, and what I discovered disturbed me. A friend had told me that in it Karl Marx accused Mikhail Bakunin of wanting to be the dictator of the First International. The slapstick incongruity of the charge piqued my interest, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-291079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}