"Under the Sign of Scorpion" by Juri - Gnostic Liberation Front

author was a careless and incompetent theorist, but also that he was a
downright liar. Paul Johnson demonstrates this in his book "The Intel-
lectuals". In 1867, "Das Kapital" sold only 200 copies in all Germany.
Thus Marx wrote about the situation of the weavers in Silesia without
having spoken to any of them. He wrote about industry without having
visited a single factory in his life. Marx even refused Engels' offer to visit
a cotton factory.
Marx met some workers for the first time in 1845 in London and at the
German Workers' Educational Association. These were mostly cultivated,
self-taught workers and craftsmen who disliked Marx's violent opinions.
They would have preferred to see their situation improved gradually by
way of reforms and social development. Marx felt contempt for them and
wanted the intellectuals of the middle classes as support for his apo-
calyptic ideas about the destruction of capitalist society. Marx later did all
in his power to keep socialist workers out of influential positions in the
International. For the sake of appearances only, a few were allowed to
remain on various committees.
Marx's most violent conflict occurred when he met the labour leader
William Weitling in 1846. Marx accused Weitling of having no doctrine.
According to Marx, one could not act in the best interests of the workers
without a doctrine.
Only the first part of "Das Kapital" was written by Marx. Engels wrote
the rest under instructions from Marx. Only the eighth chapter of part one,
"The Working Day", deals with the situation of the workers. "Das
Kapital" is in no way a scientific analysis, since Marx presented only facts,
that supported his theories. The material was not only a biased selection, it
had also been falsified and distorted to suit Marx's opinions.
He used only one single source to claim his theory, Engels' "Die Lage
der arbeitenden Klassen in England" / "The Condition of the Working
Class in England", published in Leipzig in 1845. Engels, the son of a
cotton producer, knew only about the German textile industry and nothing
of note about this industry in other countries. His knowledge of the
situation of miners and agricultural labourers was negligible, yet he wrote
about the mining and agricultural proletariat.
Two careful researchers, William O. Henderson and William H. Chalo-
ner, made a new translation of Engels' book in 1958, editing it and
checking his sources and the original texts for all his quotations. Their
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