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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFaux Snooze Anchor Claims Karl Marx Wrote Mein Kampf
Hemmer should have stuck with local sports reporting while he was still liked.
Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer got his historical facts very, very wrong when he claimed that Karl Marx wrote Mein Kampf.
Hemmer made the remark during a segment on America's Newsroom after he and co-anchor Dana Perino discussed critical race theory, a body of legal and academic scholarship that aims to examine how racism and disparate racial outcomes have shaped public policy via often implicit social and institutional dynamics.
Hemmer is wrong. The German philosopher Karl Marx teamed up with fellow philosopher Frederich Engels to write The Communist Manifesto, which was published in 1848. The book provides an analytical approach to the notion of class struggle and remains one of the most influential and divisive political documents of all time. Marx later expanded on his ideas in Das Kapital, whose first volume was published in 1867. ...
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Faux Snooze Anchor Claims Karl Marx Wrote Mein Kampf (Original Post)
Norbert
Aug 2021
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Prof. Toru Tanaka
(1,971 posts)1. The immortal Karl Marx...
immortal because he was able to write an autobiographical manifesto over 40 years after his death in 1883.
Just another example of how there is nothing newsworthy when it comes to Fox "News".
royable
(1,264 posts)2. What an idiot Hemmer is. Everyone knows Mein Kampf was written by Groucho Marx. n/t
Coventina
(27,129 posts)4. You made me LOL!
KentuckyWoman
(6,688 posts)5. I thought it was
Karl Rove.
Marcuse
(7,492 posts)3. Marxism? CRT? Communism? COVID? Phosphates? Just argumentative shorthand buzzwords for the GQP.