"We are chained, shattered, empty, frightened,
Eternally chained to this marble block of being".
The side of Karl Marx as a poet is not well-know. Marx wrote these lines when he was 23. There are many others alike that show the Universe of the would-be and worldwide influential man: a pit of fire on the verge of destruction and chaos. This image would later be super-imposed in his political and economical visions and conveyed, through a sort of timing belt, into his social legacy.
"I shall howl gigantic curses at mankind".
"When the reflections of burning cities are seen in the heavens... And when the 'celestial harmonies' consist of the melodies of the Marseillaise and the Carmagnole, to the accompaniment of thundering cannon, while the guillotine beats time and the inflamed masses scream Ca ira, ca ira, and self-consciousness is hang on the lamppost".
"History is the judge, its executioner the proletariat".
"We are the apes of a cold God".
Marx quotes the line from Goethe's Mephistopheles: "Everything that exists deserves to perish".
Despite the fact that Marx contribution to the History of Ideas is biased by such images and artistic views -far, far, damn-far from reality-, the style is being edited and copied over and over again. As I was reading today the news from the volcanic activity underneath the Island of Hierro in the Canary Islands (11,000 small shakings since July, the last one of 4.4 in the Richter scale yesterday), I met the following statement from arucasblog.blogspot.com (I translate): "4-11-11: What an explosive combination! The Earth shakes and vomits [its inners] as the Zionism demands Iranian blood. What an unbeatable scenario for the Apocalypse. It is not chance, but the cause (sic)". Etc., etc., and the picture below:
Source: arucasblog.blogspot.com
Same old, same all.
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