Was Karl Marx an Actual Satanist?

The people who knew him spoke of him as if he were *literally* possessed.

He had a favorite line, always, from Mephistopheles:
“Everything that exists deserves to perish.”
—Paul Kengor

It never ceases to amaze me. No matter how much you learn, there is so much more to know. No matter how deep you’ve gone, there is always more depth to discover. For example, you may know a lot about Karl Marx and the history of communism, but did you know that Marx wrote Satanic poetry?

I had learned a fair amount about communism throughout my adult life (as a layman, not an academic), but I only learned of Marx’s poems, plays, and paeans to Satan within the last decade or so. Did you know anything about this? Richard Wurmbrand, Robert Payne, Paul Kengor, Murray Rothbard, and others have written on the subject, and yet—entirely unsurprisingly, it has been well concealed by leftist-dominated academia.

The themes are obvious throughout his work, and are clearly reflected in both the theory and practice of communism…

Marx hated God

Marx hated the whole concept of God. He eventually claimed to be an atheist, but like most militant atheists, he behaved more like he despised God than that he simply did not believe. (No one gets that hung up on something he truly doesn’t believe is real.)

As Dr. Paul Kengor notes in the video below (around 9:00), all of Marx’s acolytes walked the same God-hating path. They began by creating things like “The League of the Militant Godless,” and then, as soon as they had power, they set about banning religious belief, murdering church officials, and committing all the other crimes with which by now you ought to be familiar.

Marx hated mankind

This is from his play Oulanem, which, as Kengor points out, is an anagram of Manuelo, a variant of Emmanuel (a name for Christ):

I shall howl gigantic curses on mankind:
Ha! Eternity! She is an eternal grief…
Ourselves being clockwork, blindly mechanical,
Made to be the foul-calendars of Time and Space,
Having no purpose save to happen, to be ruined,
So that there shall be something to ruin…

[…]

We are the apes of a cold God.

Marx wanted to destroy…everything

As Kengor notes, Marx’s favorite quote, throughout his life, was Mephistopheles’ prime directive: “Everything that exists deserves to perish.” He expresses this belief quite clearly in his poetry.

I would draw the world to me;
Living, hating, I intend
That my star shine brilliantly

[…]

Worlds I would destroy forever

[…]

Then I will be able to walk triumphantly,
Like a god, through the ruins of their kingdom.
Every word of mine is fire and action.

[…]

If there is a something which devours,
I’ll leap within it, though I bring the world to ruins
The world which bulks between me and the Abyss
I will smash to pieces with my enduring curses.
I’ll throw my arms around its harsh reality:
Embracing me, the world will dumbly pass away,
And then sink down to utter nothingness,
Perished, with no existence – that would be really living!

The tool of destruction is a sword given him by none other than the Devil himself:

See this sword?
The prince of darkness
Sold it to me.

In a bizarre twist, Marx’s children may have paid the price for his devilish rage.

“These poems and his plays, they’re filled with destruction, death, suicide pacts,” Kengor explains — before offering a shocking and little-known historical fact: “Marx had two daughters who killed themselves in suicide pacts with their husbands.”

To borrow from Oscar Wilde: To lose one child to a suicide pact may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. Of course it’s not carelessness. It sounds more like part of the plot of a Satanic horror film.

Marx wanted to be God

The core belief in true Satanism—not the Latin-singing stuff of movies, but the real deal—is the desire of men to usurp God and become gods themselves. And this, as it turns out, is exactly what Marx wanted:

Worlds I would destroy forever,
Since I can create no world;
Since my call they notice never…

[…]

Then I will be able to walk triumphantly,
Like a god, through the ruins of their kingdom.
Every word of mine is fire and action.
My breast is equal to that of the Creator.

(emphases added)

This was not a mere fancy of rebellious youth. He wrote some of these during the same decade in which he was writing the Communist Manifesto. As Kengor lays out in the interview below, most of the people who knew him—including his family and his communist colleagues—wondered aloud whether he was possessed…both figuratively and quite literally.

Whether or not you believe in Satan and demonic possession in a literal sense is beside the point. Karl Marx’s variant of leftism became the dominant one, and was the root of every branch of leftism to follow. And whether the Satanic project is literal or human-made, this rotten tree has pursued it assiduously…

Its fullest implementations were the most murderous and oppressive phenomena in human history. Its lite variants produce failure and chaos, and the degree of failure and chaos are directly proportional to their degree of implementation.

Leftism provides intellectuals with an excuse to think themselves little gods—to indulge “totalitarian temptation” to obliterate all existing orders and replace them with their more perfect vision. Deeming themselves wiser than the emergent order of Nature’s God, they seek to put man in chains (for his own good).

Leftism, following in Marx’s footsteps, embodies and rewards hubris, hatred, and destruction. It has rained chaos and misery upon mankind since the nineteenth century, and slaughtered a nine-digit figure of human souls in the twentieth.

One hundred million is the lowest reasonable estimate, and it is likely more like 150 million. 150 million. With numbers like that, whether we believe Marx was literally or figuratively doing Satan’s work is unimportant. And for what it’s worth, on some level, Marx himself clearly did believe it:

With Satan I have struck my deal,
He chalks the signs, beats time for me
I play the death march fast and free.

See also Why Marx Wrote About Satan.