The spectre is still haunting them: German court declares Karl Marx’s teachings "unconstitutional"

"A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism". 177 years since the publication of the Communist Manifesto, the spectre is still haunting the capitalists, the bourgeois governments and their allies.  

Karl Marx and his teachings are still so dangerous for the ruling classes that courts in Europe try to declare them as "unconstitutional". 

A court in Hamburg, Germany, has stated in the details of a ruling concerning a Karl Marx reading group that Marx’s teachings may be contrary to the “free democratic basic order.” 

On April 8, the “Marxist School of Politics and Culture Forum” (Masch) won its case against the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (LfV) in the Hamburg Administrative Court. The court ruled that the authorities could no longer classify the Hamburg-based association as “left-wing extremist.” Masch had won its lawsuit against its inclusion in the organization’s 2021 report and the revocation of its non-profit status in the same year. 

Lack of ‘active militant attitude’ saved Masch, but, as reported by taz, it has emerged that this legal victory could backfire like a boomerang and pose a danger to all Marx reading circles in Germany. Because the written justification goes even further, discussing the issue of whether engaging with Marxist theory is fundamentally compatible with the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany!  

The court finds that “the plaintiff’s activities, which focus on the theories of Karl Marx, are fundamentally incompatible with the free democratic basic order.” According to the court, the reason this is problematic is as follows: “The social theory created by Marx may contain incompatibilities in fundamental points with the principles of the free democratic basic order.” 

The court believes that when it comes to Marx, the problem lies in the concept of the “dictatorship of the proletariat.”

The court points out that the meaning of this concept “inevitably excludes other population groups from the political decision-making process and the indirect exercise of state power,” stating, in other words, that the dictatorship of the proletariat is “undemocratic.”

Indeed! For the dictatorship of the capital, aka bourgeois "parliamentary democracy", the emancipation of the working class from the shackles of exploitation is "unconstitutional" and "undemocratic"! 

Almost 35 years since the counterrevolutionary events in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and despite the current negative correlation of forces, the capitalist establishment trembles in fear in the perspective of a proletarian revolution. They know that revolutionary theory is a weapon in the hands of the organized working class movement and therefore they try to declare it as "illegal".

The attempted distortion of history and the prohibition of the free movement of ideas within the so-called “freedom and democracy” of the EU, shall not pass! The people will have the last word!

IN DEFENSE OF COMMUNISM ©