Karl Marx era racista, Friedrich Engels também

A esquerda faz questão ocultar o lado sombrio de suas maiores vacas sagradas. Ninguém aprende, nas escolas do Brasil soviético, que Marx e Engels eram racistas defensores da limpeza étnica. Não é sem motivo. Qualquer militante que se depare com os textos racistas dos  fundadores da maior e mais poderosa (ao menos do ponto de vista militar) das correntes da esquerda sempre tem ao menos uma surpresa desagradável - admitindo-se que não é um entusiasta do genocídio, como, aliás, há muitos por aí, como foi o falecido Hobsbawm. Deixo Marx falar por si mesmo:

"Now I share neither in the opinions of Ricardo, who regards ‘Net-Revenue’ as the Moloch to whom entire populations must be sacrificed, without even so much as complaint, nor in the opinion of Sismondi, who, in his hypochondriacal philanthropy, would forcibly retain the superannuated methods of agriculture and proscribe science from industry, as Plato expelled poets from his Republic. Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way".

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Karl Marx, no New York Daily Tribune, edição de 22 de março de 1853.

No quesito "racismo", Engels não é menos enfático que seu camarada:

"There is no country in Europe which does not have in some corner or other one or several ruined fragments of peoples, the remnant of a former population that was suppressed and held in bondage by the nation which later became the main vehicle of historical development. These relics of a nation mercilessly trampled under foot in the course of history, as Hegel says, this ethnic trash [Völkerabfälle] always become fanatical standard-bearers of counter-revolution and remain so until their complete extirpation or loss of their national character, just as their whole existence in general is itself a protest against a great historical revolution".

Friedrich Engels, no jornal marxista Neue Rheinische Zeitung, Número 194, 13 de janeiro de 1849.

Até sobra para os judeus:

"We discovered that in connection with these figures the German national simpletons and money-grubbers of the Frankfurt parliamentary swamp always counted as Germans the Polish Jews as well, although this dirtiest of all races [schmutzigste aller Rassen], neither by its jargon nor by its descent, but at most only through its lust for profit, could have any relation of kinship with Frankfurt".

Friedrich Engels, Neue Rheinische Zeitung, número 285, 29 de abril de 1849.

E Marx se refere carinhosamente aos afro-descendentes com o termo "crioulos" (niggers):

"It is now completely clear to me that he, as is proved by his cranial formation and his hair, descends from the Negroes from Egypt, assuming that his mother or grandmother had not interbred with a nigger. Now this union of Judaism and Germanism with a basic Negro substance must produce a peculiar product. The obtrusiveness of the fellow is also nigger-like."

Carta de Karl Marx para Friedrich Engels, de julho de 1862.

A acusação descansa.