Robert Payne in his book
Marx [10] also recounts this incident in great detail, as told by Eleanor - how unhappy Röckle, the magician, sold the toys with reluctance, holding on to them until the last moment. But since he [Marx] had made a pact with the Devil, there was no escaping it. Marx's biographer continues, "There can be very little doubt that those interminable stories were autobiographical.
He [Marx] had the Devil's view of the world, and the Devil's malignity. Sometimes he seemed to know that he was accomplishing works of evil." [10] When Marx had finished Oulanem and other early poems in which he wrote about having a pact with the Devil, he had no thought of socialism. He even fought against it. He was editor of a German magazine, the Rheinische Zeitung, which "does not concede even theoretical validity to Communist ideas in their present form, let alone desire their practical realization, which it anyway finds impossible.... Attempts by masses to carry out Communist ideas can be answered by a cannon as soon as they have become dangerous..." [12]
10. Payne, Robert, Marx (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968), p.317.
11. Ibid.
12. Karl Marx, Die Rheinische Zeitung (Rhine Newspaper), "DerKommunismus and die Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung (Communism and theAugsburger Allgemeine Newspaper)," MEGA, I, i (1), p. 263.
of the fact that Karl Marx was a demon, that person obviously is unaware of Oulanem and many of his other works that came before the so-called "second" most red piece of literature, of all time.