KARL MARX: SATANIST?

Did the founder of Communism make a Faustian bargain with the devil that explains Cultural Marxism today?

Dr. Paul Kengor has uncovered some hidden truths about Karl Marx in his book

I am a member of a Christian church that can reasonably be called more conservative than its surroundings, which are the Marin County suburbs of San Francisco. Recently we conducted an hour-long discussion regarding the role of Christians in a voting Democracy.

One of the panelists was a young professor of history at a prestigious girl’s school. He confided that he once stood in the middle of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, where he privately prayed that the Chinese Communist Party come to Jesus and reform their ways.

I then asked, “In your opinion is the Chinese Communist Party Satanic?”

“Yes,” he replied.

I later asked him, “If indeed the Chinese Communist Party is Satanic, then does it stand to reason that America, the nation that has opposed Communism most vigorously, is indeed the ‘promised land,’ that America is ‘exceptional?’ ”

Perhaps the public nature of our discussion made him hold back on a complete endorsement of my thesis, or perhaps he was thinking of my follow-up question/statement, which would have been something like, “Israel was once the Promised Land but no longer is. Perhaps there is a time limit on this kind of Godly proclamation, and perhaps America allowing more than 60 million aborted babies, legalizing transgenderism, glorifying homosexuality, spotlighting Hollywood and their seeking of the Oscars, a new Golden Calf, along with Presidents like Obama and Biden actively opposing Israel; perhaps this indicates we no longer are exceptional.”

Dr. Jordan Petersen recently delved into Karl Marx’s Satanic leanings

Either way this exchange led me to a podcast discussion headlined “Luciferian Intellect,” found  on Dr. Jordan Petersen’s YouTube channel, featuring a discussion with Dr. Paul Kengor and his book, The Devil and Karl Marx. Most fittingly, this discussion took place at the Museum of the Bible.

The conversation between these two Christian intellectuals, both of whom once lacked faith only to find it as they searched for meaning and answers to their question, largely why the 20th Century was so violent, along with my own research in writing this thesis, provides some of the most illuminating and enlightening answers to this question ever.

Karl Marx

Karl Marx (1818-1883) is considered the “father” of Communism and its spin-offs, which include Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Socialism, the union movement; eventually the anti-war and protest movements of the 1960s, later such radical and violent revolutionaries as the Weather Underground and the Baader Meinhof Complex; and in recent years the Antifa, Occupy Wall Street, transgender, liberation theology, and Black Lives Matter movements. Dr. Kengor’s book and interview with Dr. Petersen explain the line between Marx and these movements as seamlessly as I have ever heard, which is a great benefit to many conservatives who struggle to identify the darkness of Communism as easily as they identify the darkness of the Nazis.

It can be argued that the French Revolution of 1789-93, spurred on by The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, was the original progenitor of Communism, but of course the discussion between Doctors Petersen and Kengor was far deeper than that. In attempting to view Communism as a spiritual evil with ancient roots they go all the way back to the Biblical story of Cain and Abel.

Somewhere in all of this philosophical discussion there must be room to dissect the Nazis in this vein, especially the conundrum in which despite Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler admiring and modeling their dictatorships after each other, both being Socialist cradle-to-grave systems with very little to choose between them, were nevertheless blood enemies. But this thesis concentrates on Communism.

The book that shook the world and led to mass death

Marx was partly Jewish although he was active in his father’s Lutheran Church as a youth. He authored among other writings The Communist Manifesto (1848) with Friederich Engels, and the three-volume Das Kapital (1867-1894). He wrote The Communist Manifesto in abject poverty, his daughters dying of sickness around him. He cared more for his 56-page manifesto than he did about his family, but surely the bitterness of his writing had to be influenced by his dire surroundings.

Satanic influence

He moved to London from his native Germany. He was married with seven children, but only three survived into adulthood. At a young age, he had what Dr. Petersen described, and what Dr. Kengor wrote in his biography as, “Mephistophelian fantasies,” influenced largely by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe’s Faust. Poetry and Satanism are inter-twined through fantasy, Dr. Kengor points out.

Liberal Marx biographers hid Marx’s devil worship, but Robert Payne wrote of it

Marx biographer Robert Payne took a deep dive into his “deeply disturbing” and “chilling” Satanic poetry in his 1968 biography of Marx. This includes verses such as:

“Thus heaven I forfeit it I know full well

My heart once true to God is chosen for hell.”

“The Player” (1841) puts himself in the form of a mad violinist, maniacally summoning up the power of darkness, all in front of his wife Jenny, who asked him why he was doing such a thing. It should be noted that music is one of the most common threads of Satanic worship, through the asking of Satan to propel human beings to fame and fortune. Many modern day musicians invoke Satan in their music, some quite openly. Even such a seemingly benign performer as Katy Perry once said she did such a thing, but it was brushed aside by her fans as merely an expression or joke.

Marx’s verses read thusly:

“Look now by blood dark heart shall stab unerringly in thy soul

The hellish vapors rise and fill the brain

Till I go mad and my heart is utterly changed

See the sword

The Prince of Darkness sold it to me

For he beats the time and gives sign

And ever more boldly I play the dance of death.”

Marx, wrote Payne, aspired to be “the Faust of his age.”

Marx said he was an atheist, having turned from the Lutheranism of his youth. In many ways his philosophy was the beginning of French existentialism, in that he advocated that to alleviate suffering man should cease to exist. In accomplishing this task, say Petersen and Kengor, he gave birth to Marxism, father of 120 million murdered human beings, plus endless suffering, war, deprivation, starvation, moral depravity, dislocation, not to mention untold abortions numbering some figure beyond human understanding, a Stalinist statistic.

1 billion? More?

“I shall howl gigantic curses at mankind,” Marx wrote.

The concept of destruction of “everything” advocated by Marx explains both Pol Pot and Mao Tse-tung, who advocated Marx’s statement, “Now we can begin,” the genesis of such ideals as Year Zero, which by the way was also mouthed by the demonic witches in Ira Levin’s Rosemary’s Baby.

He endeavored to break families apart (mirrored by Hitler, not to mention the modern Left) through “radical disruption.”  He had a “ruthless criticism of all that exists,” as in everything! He wrote that everything needed to be abolished in order to start anew. All previous generations, in this view, are oppressors; haves lording over have nots, in a devastating history of “private parties,” of “capital,” of “family!” all leading to the “present state of things” enveloping “entire societies.”

Yet who was this man? He had very bad personal hygiene, engaged in a filthy way of living, and loved disorder. These are long traits of devilish chaos. Like for instance Bernie Sanders he never worked “a real job.”

All the money Engels and Marx had was inherited. He never paid the nursemaid who was gifted to him as a substitute for further money he demanded of relatives on both his and his wife’s family that was not owed to them. He never paid a dime to support his unwed child.

Two of his daughters committed suicide. He had carbuncles and boils all over his body and literally said he felt as if “the devil hurled excrement” at him.

Despite never working in a factory or any kind of job, he wrote extensively of “workers” and the conditions they toiled in, even though he did not know what he was talking about. He most certainly had zero understanding of a company profit margin or adjustments due to inflation.

He fancied himself a philosopher in opposition to Martin Luther, like an anti-Christ. The Communist Manifesto is thusly seen as anti-Declaration of Independence, written less than a century before. But he was a great sloganeer: “Workers of the world unite.” “To each according to his ability to each according to their needs.” He plagiarized from The Bible and twisted Christ’s words around. We see this talent for words in modern Marxism: “Gender affirming care.” “Diversity, equity and inclusion.”

His battle cries of the dead conjure up images of the long gone fighting for the living. He supported every revolutionary movement, advocating the “forcible overthrow of all economic  conditions.”

Saul Alinsky, mentor to Barack Hussein Obama, attributed his identical revolutionary principles to the devil, seen in this vein as the “ultimate revolutionary.” He is viewed as “misunderstood,” as in “Sympathy for the Devil” by The Rolling Stones.

Marxism as a religion

As anybody who has studied Satan knows, the devil desires to be the head of a religion that mimics in the opposite direction from Christianity. This is what Marx advocated and Communism was its conduit. Marxism-Leninism became a religion, its current natural constructs being climate change, global warming, transgenderism, and National Socialism.

He and his wife Jenny made fun of Christians coming to the holy city of Trier, where Christs’s robe was actually reverently kept in the local church, much like abortionists making fun of pro lifers marching for the unborn.

Marx began the tradition of mocking Christians

Marx, influenced in particular by a professor named Bauer, turned from Christ much like students do in college today.

Early Marx biographers found his demonic poetry and hid it, like Obama’s association with Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who loudly pronounced, “Not God bless America. God damn America.”

In college Marx and Professor Bauer rode into town on donkeys to mock Christ’s entrance into Jerusalem. Marx saw himself as intellectually superior, like today in which the “cultural elites” of the Left - academia, media, the Democrat Party - see themselves as superior to the “basket of deplorables,” the “bitter clingers,” the “smelly Walmart people” who vote for Donald Trump. In so doing, Marx was mirroring his role model Faust, who sold his soul for “intellectual superiority.”

Marx hated Judaism, too, writing things Hitler may have said. He also wrote in anagrams, well known to have Satanic implications, and dabbled in witch craft. Much of his writing and plays spurred devil worship in rock music a century later.

His son called him “my Dear Devil.” His wife called him “my wicked knave.” Others called him a “goblin.” Engels calls him a “damned monster of 10,000 devils.”

His father told the 18-year old Marx he had a “demon” heart.

Dr. Petersen said “he was a devotee of the Mephistophelean,” not quite calling him a “Satanist,” but let’s face it, this is like splitting the difference between “Marxist-Leninist” and “Communist.” Peterson added that he was a devotee and founder of “the most murderous doctrine of all time.” Indeed, Communism makes Hitler look like a piker, its murder column dwarfing by more than 10 times the Holocaust.

Paul Wayne wrote he “seemed possessed by demons” and had a “devil’s view of the world and the devil’s malignity.” Furthermore, Marx was very well aware that he was doing evil. Some have said that had Marx seen with his own eyes what happened in his name in the Soviet Union, Red China, Castro’s Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, and Vietnam (not to mention Berkeley), he would have been appalled. Both Wayne’s and Kengor’s books, along with supporting discussion between Doctors Petersen and Kengor, dispute this with authenticity. Others say there is some evidence of Marx doing Satanic worship and ritual acts.

V.I. Lenin was perhaps Marx’s greatest supporter

Either way Lenin, his original and most avid proponent, oversaw 500,000 murders in a very short time (1917-23). Obviously dark forces led to Marx’s economic concepts, which further led to an atheist religion and murderous ideals. Petersen and Kengor believe atheism is here seen as more murderous and bad than actual Satanic worship.

Marx is the genesis along with the French of the idea for moral superiority declared over previous “great men.” But while Marx accused others of racism, he had hideous views of blacks (just as did Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, who advocated that “real Cubans” were European, as opposed to chattel slaves). Marx himself would have been “canceled” had he not been a liberal hero.

He used the N-word word as well all as “negrilla,” saying blacks should be in a zoo like the other gorillas. The founder of Black Lives Matter calls herself a Marxist; ignorant like so many of the truth.

What Marx wanted in public is not what he wanted in private. He was like all Communists and liberals who advocate for a blanket policy for all the people while they live in their dachas.

“Communists openly declare our means can only be attained only by forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions,” wrote Marx.

By social conditions he meant everything. Like modern liberals he advocated “spreading the wealth” of everybody . . . except themselves. As for the modern desire to destroy, we see this in Antifa and BLM destroying statues and all aspects of our glorious past.

Marx saw “religion as the heart of a heartless world,” a “spiritual booze”; the most abominable thing is religion. Dr. Petersen points out that if Christianity is just the “opiate of the masses,” why would it include a fear of hell? He further notes that Jesus tells people to “give up all you have and take up a cross,” these being tremendous prices to pay that are opposite of an opiate.

“Marxism says man does live on bread alone,” states Dr. Kengor.

“Abolition of private party,” both doctors agree, is Communism in one sentence. How this is supposed to lead to utopia is unexplained.

Fyodor Dostoevsky understood Communism’s flaw when he wrote in Notes from Underground, if you did provide people with utopia and they had everything, those who were so benefited would go insane just looking to have something to do. “Man," Christ told the devil in the desert wilderness. “lives from every word from the mouth of God.” Rod Serling’s Twi-Light Zone expressed this concept in an episode in which a gangster dies and thinks he is in Heaven because he wins all the time gambling, has all the alcohol he can consume, and an endless supply of beautiful women to satisfy his needs. Eventually he is driven insane because it all comes too easily, and when he complains to his handler he is informed “this is the other place.”

Today’s Marxists are beyond economics and on to gender, race and culture. They now call not for factory workers but for “culture workers.” The old workers of Marx’s time are now MAGA supporters. The Left has failed to understand this key aspect of their original concept.

The old factory workers of Marx’s day now vote for Trump, so they had to invent new acolytes

“The Marxist super structure of the oppressed vs. the oppressor, is no longer the oppressor bourgeoisie vs. the oppressed proletariat victim,” says Dr. Kengor. “Today it is a ‘redeemer class.’ ” These are self-proclaimed “righteous people,” who by “virtue signaling” are hoisted up by schools, academia and the media, given a soap box to spew their garbage.

The modern cultural Marxists have taken a factory model and put it on race. Current Marxists divide people with ridiculous notions that if allowed to survive in real life would have us believe Kobe Bryant and Oprah Winfrey were oppressed, while the white homeless man is the oppressor. This concept has gotten so out of whack that blacks, particularly wealthy celebrities, seem to live in a world of different standards, in which they are allowed to get away with more than Christian whites, who are fair game.

Lawyers for Sean “P. Diddy” Combs are currently fighting charges of decades of sex trafficking, forced gang bangs and assaults on young boys by stating it is merely a societal attempt to bring down “a successful black man.” In other words, precisely the method used to get O.J. Simpson off the hook.

Joseph Stalin famously said, “Find me the man, I’ll find you the crime.” This template has been followed by Presidents Obama, Biden and the Democrat Party, who have jailed filmmakers, news reporters, and associates of President Trump, while constantly committing “law fare” against him personally. There is nothing the devil loves more than framing an innocent man.

The Communists wore long hair and workers’ garb to differentiate themselves from the bourgeoisie. They used girls to sexually entice men into joining their cause. This foreshadowed the hippy movement.

The Communists jailed homosexuals but promoted it in the West, knowing it would create a lack of discipline while breaking up families, long the goal of Karl Marx.

The Communists as well as the Nazis knew that film was the greatest propagandist art form, and infiltrated Hollywood beginning in the 1940s.

Sadly, what the KGB needed to do to blackmail U.S. agents into committing treason against their country is now, thanks to public schools, academia, the media, and the Democrat Party, something modern liberals freely do as a matter of personal politics. One former Communist, John Brennan, who voted for the CPUSA in 1980, became CIA Director under Obama, who learned at the feet of one of America’s leading Communists between ages nine and 18.

Communism has engrained itself so thoroughly into the American culture that it literally hides in plain sight.

The cultural Marxists of today are not saying anything “new under the sun.” Their story is no different from Cain and Abel, Cain being victim of Abel, complete with envy. Marxism is all about Abel telling off Cain and taking what he worked for.

Their current core doctrine is victim-victimizer, and while the original genesis was economic, today even poor people in American slums have possessions such as TVs and nice sneakers.

Marxism is not for the rulers but for the ruled. Once they became the rulers, they never did anything about economics, only nationalizing poverty like modern day Obamacare.

Dr. Kengor asks, “How did Communism catch on?” This requires a diabolical theory only explained by Satanic magic. Somehow, some way, it seems only Christians understand this explanation.

Marx mentions an early concept of an economic “specter” that “needs exercise,” telling us what we now see was the opening of 100 years of Satanic power. On the other hand, Communism made many people understand God. “It demands an explanation for evil that is pronounced,” says Dr. Petersen.

Catholics have called Communism “a Satanic scourge.” Liberation theologists never acknowledge any of this. It is far beyond their ability to interpret. Yet we see Marxism grow in movies, in academics, and in the Democrat Party.

When one looks at things such as “the swamp,” the Deep State, and the national debt, understanding them as literally Satanic in concept, then you have a better understanding of just how difficult it is to get rid of them.

Can anybody study the pervasive fact that many Catholic priests have sexually abused kids and not conclude that the devil was actively at work in the church?

Evil in the 20th Century

On October 13, 1884 (shortly before Halloween), one year after Karl Marx’s death, Pope Leo XIII, just after celebrating Mass, turned pale and collapsed as though dead. Those standing nearby found him alive but looking scared. He said he had heard voices in the church and seen a vision of Satan arguing with God that he could destroy the Church. He said it was a mirror of God and the devil arguing over whether Job would remain patient and faithful to Him.

Pope Leo XIII saw a vision of a 20th Century war between good and evil

According to the Pope, God granted Satan 100 years, during which time Satan said if he had “more power of those who will serve me,” he could destroy it. The 20th Century was revealed to Pope Leo XIII: World Wars I and II, Communism, abortion, genocide, apostasy, devil worship, immorality on an industrial scale. This is when he wrote the Prayer to St. Michael. For decades it was prayed at Mass until the 1960s. After Vatican II liberals discontinued it, although some Catholic churches still read it.

Some believe the “spiritual war” began in 1914 with the beginning of World War I. Others might argue that Ronald Reagan’s re-election 100 years after Pope Leo XIII’s vision, foreshadowing the Berlin Wall falling and the Cold War won by the U.S., marked its end, a shared victory with Jesus Christ.

Did President Reagan preside over an exceptional America doing the will of God?

Either way, the Pope’s encyclical was most prophetic indeed. He called it an issue that had to be “looked upon as a matter of the greatest and most momentous concern.” Here is the prayer:

“Blessed Michael, archangel,
defend us in the hour of conflict.
Be our safeguard against the wickedness and snares of the devil
(may God restrain him, we humbly pray):
and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host,
by the power of God thrust Satan down to hell
and with him those other wicked spirits
who wander through the world for the ruin of souls.
Amen.”

On October 17, 1917 (also just before Halloween), as Lenin was arriving in St. Petersburg and Russia was becoming Communist, the miracle of Fatima occurred. Young girls encountered the Virgin Mary, who warned them much like Pope Leo XIII’s vision, of the dangers of the 20th Century, namely the rise of Communism, a subject the young girls otherwise likely would have had little if any knowledge of.

The Nazis would also rise, their religion being white supremacy based on Norse mythology. They, like Soviet Communism, would be defeated courtesy of the red, white and blue. Whether the U.S. continues to be “exceptional,” one thing remains clear: the meaning of life is to serve the Lord Jesus Christ with all our hearts and all our souls.

Steven Travers is a former screenwriter who has authored over 30 books including The Last Icon: Tom Seaver and His Times. He is a USC graduate and attorney with a Ph.D who taught at USC and attended the UCLA Writers’ Program. He played professional baseball, served in the Army JAG corps in D.C., was in investment banking on Wall Street, worked in politics, lived in Europe, and was a sports agent before finding his calling as a writer. He has written for the San Francisco Examiner, L.A. Times, StreetZebra, Gentry magazine, Newsmax, Substack and MichaelSavage.com. He lives in California and has one daughter, Elizabeth. He can be reached at USCSTEVE1@aol.com or on Twitter @STWRITES.