The Boy Who Became a Tyrant
Historical Account★★★★The Boy Who Became a Tyrant Years ago a young Jewish boy grew up in Germany. He had great admiration for his father who made sure their family life revolved around their religion. Every week he took them to the synagogue. In the boy’s teen years the family was forced to move to another town with no synagogue, only a Lutheran church.
All the best people belonged to it. Suddenly his father announced they were all going to become Lutherans, saying it would be “good for business.” Bewildered and angry, the boy left Germany and went to England to study. Each day found him at the British Museum formulating his ideas and composing a book.
In that book he introduced a new world-view and conceived a movement that was destined to bring misery to the lives of countless millions. His ideas became the “norm” for the governments of almost half the world. The boy’s name was Karl Marx; the father of Communism. History was forever altered by a father who sold out principle for profit. (history, ideology, consequences)
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A historical account of how Karl Marx's father abandoned Judaism for business reasons, leading Marx to develop communism, a worldview that brought misery to millions.