By the end of the 19th century, ‘Marx stood Hagel on his head.’ But in the 21st century, grudgingly settling old scores and turning the table the other way around, ‘Shylock has stood Marx on his head’
Posted on August 30th, 2021

Geethanjana Kualigamage 

By the end of the 19th century, ‘Marx stood Hagel on his head.’ But in the 21st century, grudgingly settling old scores and turning the table the other way around, ‘Shylock has stood Marx on his head’ and reduced Marx into a mere scarecrow dangling in the horizon of the history of mankind.  

Not less a person than Marx himself said that history repeats itself…. first as tragedy and second as farce.” Oh yes! Contemporary Marxists have proved Marx’s point so profoundly and farcically.  

Hagel is considered to be the father of modern western philosophy. It is widely accepted that his philosophical contributions provided the much-needed spiritual foundation for the development of capitalism as well. It is also widely accepted that Marx rearticulated Hegelian philosophy by changing the fundamentals of it by taking some components of Hegel’s philosophy and rearranging them to reach a very different conclusion. By doing so he presented a newer version of philosophical thought in oppose to Capitalism. We identify this school of thought as Marxism. Changing Hagel’s idealism into materialism, Marx declared that he stood Hagel on his head. For the laymen, this statement of Marx was presumed as that Marx stood the ‘capitalist’ on his head.” 

A century later, in this epoch of late capitalism, history in many ways has taken a 180-degree turn. Today, the billionaire class neoliberal elite lavishly throwing money in all directions of the world have very successfully managed to buy off the erstwhile Marxists and leftists to serve their neoliberal globalist agenda. That’s how NGOs have become a lucrative business for the left. Today, billionaires like George Soros, through their bogus philanthropic version of capitalism have managed to put Marxists into servility to serve the advancement of capitalism. These Marxists have become the ambassadors and spokespersons of neoliberalism and globalization in the world.  It is a remarkable triumph for capitalism. Symbolically speaking, this is the exact reason why I call it ‘Shylock to stand Marx on his head.” Ironically, these three men, namely Shylock, Marx, and George Soros are happened to be Jewish. 

For Marx’s remark about history…. If we take the fall of the Soviet Union as the tragedy of history, then George Soros’ craftily managing to bring Marxists to their knees and making them into subservience of capitalism must be considered as the farce of history. We are living in a very interesting epoch of the social evolution of mankind. I am not sure how many of you have noticed these ludicrous realities of our time. LOL!!! 

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