Regarding Grove City College professor Paul Kengor’s column “The new activists — no criticism, no dissent” (Sept. 17, TribLIVE) concerning his book “The Devil and Karl Marx”: If I could afford an agent and a publisher to promote it, I could write a book called “The Devil and Donald Trump,” about the “genuinely diabolical elements” of him and the capitalist system.
For the professor’s information, Marx was probably the best friend the workers of the world had in the 19th century. In the early 20th century, the torch was picked up by a Swedish immigrant, Joe Hill, who fought for and organized the American labor movement until the last days of his life, to improve the lot of American workers who were being exploited by capitalism, until he was convicted of a murder he said he did not commit and was executed by the state of Utah in 1915 at age 36.
I believe his only “crime” was being a socialist.
Tom Pevarnik
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