Marx, Prophet of Darkness: Communism's Hidden Forces Revealed

Well, apparently, Wurmbrand exposes Marx's involvement with satanic cults and stances from a conspiracy theory viewpoint. He denies this way every possible truth in Marx.

However, the arguments he exposes therein are far from mere unsubstantiated speculations, and, as such, his conspiracy theory leaves the domain of mere idle talk and confused thinking to enter the clarity of logical demonstration.

Wurmbrand was motivated in writing this book by his own political captivity under the Communists, so he writes at least as emotionally involved as Marx opposed the society of his time. They understand each other well; for both are kind of rebel: while Marx rebelled against the social order then and he followed the Lucifer model for such rebelling, Wurmbrand was a Christian, and this one rebelled against the twisted order of Marx's followers. He might have forgotten Romans 13, wherein St. Paul advises for cooperation with the political powers.

Wurmbrand's stance might well have been kind of Job's: if St. Paul claims that if I do good, I shall receive appreciation from the rulers, and I certainly do good but I receive persecution, then either St. Paul is flawed or this world is flawed. Such a thing meant for him fighting against world's flaws, which se saw as embodied in Communist rule.

Well, if Wurmbrand missed something that is an objective ("honest" in Christian language) appreciation of Marx's viewpoints. My own two cents hereupon is that Marx was right in his critique and wrong in his solution (mostly implied, for it generally misses inside his work).

Wurmbrand seems to ignore a basic law of intoxication, i.e. that a large amount of relevant truth has to be included inside an intoxicating lie, so that it is believable, thus efficient.

Otherwise, his work is kind of masterpiece, but I'm afraid that his arguments make little sense to laymen, i.e. they are of little relevance to people without a Christian background. This way, his work is more of apologetics than of scientific social criticism.

Besides such naive aspects, it was an eye-opener for me, which accounted at that time for the Communist disaster in my country (Romania) and has laid the basis of my faith to come then.

Marx, Prophet of Darkness: Communism's Hidden Forces Revealed

Richard Wurmbrand

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