@ARTICLE{Bartyzel_Jacek_Karl_2018, author={Bartyzel, Jacek}, number={No 4}, journal={Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria}, pages={69-83}, howpublished={online}, year={2018}, publisher={Komitet Nauk Filozoficznych PAN}, publisher={Wydział Filozofii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego}, abstract={The claim of this article is to argue that the main thrust of Karl Marx’s philosophy was neither a critique of political economy, nor a critique of the bourgeois political system, but an anti-theistic raid of a metaphysical nature, and that this drive gave him the impetus that motivated his intellectual activity from the time when he had not yet had any economic theory and when the proletariat had not yet played a major role within the purview of his interests. Marx’ rebellion led him to a condemnation of the entire creation as a product of an evil Demiurge, who – to exacerbate the situation even further – was nothing else than a product of human false consciousness, manifesting itself politically as a division of any populace into friends and foes, who were subsequently conglomerated into antagonistic social classes but could be transformed in appropriate conditions into stateless community of friends.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Karl Marx as an anti-theistic and anti-political gnostic}, URL={http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/109513/PDF/PF%204-18%208-J.Bartyzel.pdf}, doi={10.24425/pfns.2018.125495}, keywords={Marxism, communism, revolution, apocalypsis, gnosis}, }