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Marx loved Satan
(hexbear.net)
comment on Joomi Kim's Why is socialism on the rise? youtube video
I checked out Joomi's channel because Man Carrying Thing did a recent video about her reactionary take on contemporary fiction.
Thank you for your attention to this matter
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1837-pre/verse/verse4.htm
I went searching for any mention of Satan in the Marxist archive and this was one of two across all of his works (which might be limited by the copyright claims that have plagued them recently). I had no idea Marx wrote poetry. Someone who likes poetry would be a better judge of it since I'm too hostile to anything with a simple rhyme scheme:
edit: Actually the other mention was from Engels. : https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/religion/book-revelations.htm "Devil" has a few mentions throughout their correspondence but it doesn't seem to be in a religious sense so much as a 19th century "scoundrel" sense.
Marx's favorite fiction author (in English at least) was Shakespeare. Man was all about poetry.
Also the poem is technically sound, but nothing special, just a simple iambic tetrameter.
Yeah marx wrote entire volumes of poems for his wife, back when he was a youth. The first Marx biography said they are of biographical rather than literary interest, which is a nice way of saying they arent very good lol
Apparently some of the lines in Heine's poems are from Marx though
On subject of devil, he also made up stories to his daughters about a toymaker who was in debt to the devil