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

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analysis virtually annihilated <strong>the</strong> objective historical value <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> work and<br />

showed it for what it really was: political propaganda. Engels made a<br />

selection suitable for his work from obsolete facts from <strong>the</strong> years 1801-<br />

1818, never indicating that this was <strong>the</strong> case. There were also falsi-<br />

fications and misquotations amounting to a total <strong>of</strong> 23 pages (over 5 per<br />

cent <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> book's 354 pages). Henderson and Chaloner demonstrated with<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir analysis that Engels had not been honest in his researching.<br />

So Marx used a work <strong>of</strong> that calibre as <strong>the</strong> only source <strong>of</strong> his statements<br />

and conclusions. He was fully aware <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> falsifications, since <strong>the</strong><br />

German economist Bruno Hildebrand had already revealed most <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m<br />

in 1948, and Marx had been informed <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> criticism.<br />

Marx used misquotations himself. He misquoted William Gladstone and<br />

<strong>the</strong> economist Adam Smith. He even misquoted <strong>of</strong>ficial reports. The two<br />

researchers from Cambridge showed in <strong>the</strong>ir examination "Comments on<br />

<strong>the</strong> Use <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Blue Books <strong>by</strong> Karl Marx in Chapter XV <strong>of</strong> "Das Kapital"<br />

(1985), that Marx had not only been careless but had intentionally falsified<br />

Paul Johnson came to <strong>the</strong> same conclusion: that one must be sceptical<br />

about all <strong>of</strong> Marx's texts and that one could never rely on his assertions.<br />

For example, Marx claimed that railway accidents had become more<br />

frequent whereas <strong>the</strong> case was exactly <strong>the</strong> opposite.<br />

The Moral Bankruptcy <strong>of</strong> Marxism<br />

According to blind Marxists, <strong>of</strong> whom <strong>the</strong>re are plenty in Sweden, Marx<br />

stood for humanism and human values, liberty and belief in mankind.<br />

They probably have not read <strong>the</strong> following lines about Marx <strong>by</strong> Friedrich<br />

Engels: "Who is chasing with wild endeavour? A black man from Trier, a<br />

remarkable monster. He does not walk or run, he jumps on his heels and<br />

rages full <strong>of</strong> anger..." (Marx and Engels, "Selected Works" in German,<br />

supplementary tome II, p. 301.)<br />

The exiled Estonian non-socialist writer Arvo Magi stated in a radio<br />

programme that Marx was not a terrorist who wished to destroy <strong>the</strong> ideas<br />

<strong>of</strong> o<strong>the</strong>rs. But he was! Marx tolerated no ideas but <strong>the</strong> Illuminist ones<br />

which were later known as Marxist. Marxism merely gave <strong>the</strong> dark<br />

Illuminist powers a hypocritical method and a verbose phraseology, which<br />

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