KARL MARX

 

His wife bore 7 children. Only 3 of those children lived to be adults. The other 4 died young from the effects of living in poverty. Karl Marx was a 'thinker'. He sat in a chair and thought about what it must be like to be a working man. Rather than experiencing the world as it was, Marx thought about how he wished it would be.Though he had never worked, Marx concluded that a working man was selling his soul to his boss. In particular, Marx thought about the new process of making cotton thread by machine, in a factory. What he concluded is that the owners of the factories became wealthy while the workers made wages barely enough to live on. He did not consider that men were leaving the farms to work in the factories because the pay was steady and there was one day off a week, much better conditions than on the farm.

Marx decided the workers should own the factories. He wrote loftily of the toil of the workers, without seeming to have any understanding of investment in order to construct the factory. Nor did he bother his mind to consider all that goes into managing a factory. He just saw men working and found it so repulsive he decided they should at the least own the factory so as to save their souls.The fact that Marx never worked in itself makes his 'thinking' suspect, but much worse is how Marx provided for his family.

For most of his adult life, and in particular while his children were young, Karl Marx's main source of income came from his friend, Engels, who periodically sent money to support the family. Engels, in turn, received his money from - cotton mills! His family were owners of a mill in Manchester, England. Engels himself lived off the workers, and the money he sent to his friend Karl Marx was from the profits of the factory.

Karl Marx lived off the toil of factory workers while bemoaning their fate and 'thinking' of how it ought to be. Karl Marx was a parasite. What sort of man can watch his children go hungry and bury four of them but refuse to work in order to provide for them? The money he received from Engels was never enough to raise the Marx family out of poverty. Certainly their circumstances were worse than those of the factory workers. And Marx was an educated man. He certainly could have found work had he wanted to.

Marx's philosophy of a worker selling his soul seems to be his own excuse for his negligence toward his wife and children. Did he think it was better for his children to die than for him to get a job and provide for them? What's astonishing is that a loser such as Karl Marx is taken seriously, his philosophy touted as the working man's utopia. Of course, wherever Marxism has been instituted, be it in Cuba, in North Korea, in China, in Russia, the workers have never found themselves better off. In fact, Marxism brings with it famine, starvation, and death.

Marx had no experience in the world, no experience working. His experience seems confined to sitting in a chair 'thinking'. And as he thought he contrived a theory which was no more than his own excuse for not working. Those people who espouse Marxism as the way the world ought to be are no better than Marx himself. Chances are they too are parasites. They're certainly not people who truly care about others. They just want to do like Marx, live off someone else's toil

Communism begins in the home

Our story begins in a Castle deep in the heart of The Holy Roman Empire around 1450 AD .The Duke who ruled this small country was very happily married and he had one small daughter called Snow White. There the resemblance to the story as most of you know it is finished. The belief that most people have is that Snow White got her name because of the purity of her white skin. This was not the case. As a child she was freckled if anything, and she had more than her share of acne as well. No the reason why she was given the name that she had was because she was such a spoilt and arrogant little brat that she turned the hair of her nurses and servants white with fear and frustration.

Anyway to get on with our story the first wife of the Duke died and he married for a second time. Wife number two was a quiet respectable Countess from a neighbouring county, and everyone in the country wished them long and happy years together. Everyone except for the duke's daughter that is. Snow White, who was by now a teenager, took an instant dislike to her new stepmother. The fact that, during the time that her father was a widower, he had spent more time with her and she was now beginning to feel a bit neglected did not help. The added fact that she was a malevolent little tyke probably contributed as well. Whatever the reason, the princess proceeded to do everything in her power to make the new duchess's life a misery, and to break up the marriage if at all possible.

One part of the story that has come down to us has it's basis in truth. In the Walt Disney film of Snow White we see an example of the remarkable power that the princess had over animals. In the movie the birds and animals all came together to help clean the dwarves house. That, of course, is a sanitising of the true situation. Far from encouraging instances of domestic utility, the malicious child used to goad the beasts of the forest to rampage throughout the castle, and cause as much misery as possible to the unfortunate duke and his bride. The nastiest thing was when Snow White persuaded a swarm of wasps to build a nest in the conjugal bed.

The following morning as the royal couple plastered camomile over their bodies, to try to ease the agony of the wasp stings, a decision was made. The duke confronted his daughter and told her that unless she moderated her behaviour she would be asked to leave the castle. Snow White, of course, told the duke that she would see them in Hell before one jot of her behaviour would be moderated; and then she stormed out of the castle. The lifting of the atmosphere was palpable, and the duke and his wife got back to rebuilding their almost shattered relationship.

Approaches to anthropology

As a complex discipline Anthropology has manifold approaches and divisions. Anthropology is often defined as being holistic and based on a four field approach. The four fields are Biological or physical anthropology, Socio-cultural anthropology, Linguistic anthropology and Archeology. A further type of Anthropology - Applied anthropology can be added making the four field ' five filed'.

Anthropology emerged from Europe. In the long run it spread to America and Asia. American Anthropology owes its origin to extraordinary contributions of various scholars like Franz Boas, Lewis Henry Morgan etc. Scholar viz Kroeber, Robert Redfield, Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, lewis Oscar, Julian Steward etc. Early European Anthropologist like E.B. Taylor, James Frazer, henry James Maine and Herbert Spencer were evolutionist and they contributed for the development of anthropology. In the Asian context anthropology flourished is Colonial India, China, Japan. In Nepal the foreign missionaries played a vital role in the development of anthropology.

Anthropology

Historical development of anthropology

The word anthropology is drived from two Greek words anthrops meaning man and logos or logia meaning study of humanity or science. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences, and the humanities. Enthnography is both one of its prmary ethods and the text that is written as a result of the practice of anthropology and its elements. The meaning of Anthropology is the toal or holistic study of human being. Being the holistic study of human being, it studies all the aspects of human being e.g. physical, social, cultural etc.