Interesting and Informative

Enjoyed this very much. My only gripe was that the voices where a little 'over-acted' at times. Marx was and remains a hugely divisive character whom In my view should not be admired in the slightest. This book should provide a great insight into his true motives and character. The author does well to distance himself from bias by making sure he points out the difference between evidenced facts, rumours or hear-say, which was important in a book covering the subject of Marx. The book is very well researched and really opens up the readers to the dangers presented by modern cultural marxism and the reach of its ever growing tentacles.

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Rare, Brilliant

Ooooo that was good. That was really really good. It's not often I fly through a book over 10hrs long and finish within a couple of weeks. Could hardly stop listening. And enlightening? My o my, it's answered a lot of questions about the modern agendas. What a cracking thesis. I wish all intellectual books were as addictive and well researched as this one.

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Kevin O'Brien brings fascinating history to life

I have seen the author interviewed a few places and added this book but didn't listen to it for some time as I felt I was quite familiar with the history as a whole. Having now finished the book, I feel there was a lot I didn't know before reading it and enough there to really make you think about the diabolical ideas that change the world. It is important to note that the book doesn't end wit the death of Marx or even his contemporaries but continues almost to the time of publication, examining those who took the Communist football and really ran with it and what effect they've had and what lives they led. Some of those names will perhaps be familiar; others may not but the detail of what happened, mainly in the USA during the twentieth-century is fascinating and honestly disturbing at times, and I don't say that lightly.

Kevin O'Brien brings this book alive. His acting skills are used fully and caught me off-guard the first time he launched into a monolog in full accent and it's truly impressive just how many and how varied were the voices he found for the many characters in the book. I think, were I directing him, I might have suggested he reel it in about 10% but as the book went on I came to appreciate the effort and creativity he brought to the reading, varying accents, pace, pronunciation, volume (though the engineers fixed that in post) to really help you differentiate one character from another, while some other readers just put on a lisp for all female characters and call it a day.

The book begins with Marx but takes a trans-Atlantic and Papal flight very quickly, focusing (with some exceptions) heavily on Communism in the USA and the Catholic response. While it makes the case well that for most of history the Catholic Church has opposed Communism, one can't help but come away feeling that too often their response was a strongly worded letter written in Latin that no one read and too many of the infiltrations by communists into the Church as a whole were among the Catholic Church. The author doesn't claim that the decline or corruption of the Church in recent decades is entirely down to Commie infiltration and it appears there are not always clear answers as to how effective anyof this was.

Some of the later chapters feel a little stale, composed as they are of Congressional testimony rather than narrative and the US/Catholic bias means you're not getting the whole story. I'd recommend Peter Hitchens' The Rage Against God if you liked this book; it has a degree of autobiography as well as a lot of history that focuses more on Europe and Christianity as a whole and it's one of my favorite books. I also understand that Shepherds for Sale is a more recent work inspired partly by this book that looks at the more recent attempts at corrupting the Church, so that may also be interesting for you.

I learned a bunch, enjoyed the stories, was disturbed by some details and came away with mixed feelings about various players and that's probably a sign of a good history book.

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Pure pleasure, or horror, depending on your views

"The Devil and Karl Marx" is a thoroughly researched and cleverly presented work covering the lives of Marx and his most influential followers in the United States and elsewhere, all the way to the recent past. The narration is superb. This piece will bring unadulterated delight to Marx's followers and sympathisers while working as a stark, perhaps belated, warning to everyone else. A must read for the politically curious, practitioners and academics alike.

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Not for the faint hearted but necessary for every Christian

Very well researched! Some chapters were difficult to hear but necessary. Thank you for adding a spiritual dimension to the woke movement.

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My God, I had no idea!

I expect that most dyed-in-the-wool Marxists will find what is written here perfectly acceptable. If you have taken the oath and accepted the Marxist agenda, the idea that this comes from the Devil is laughable. After all, Marx himself was an atheist and so too are most of his supporters and this implies that the Devil too is a figurative abstraction and not a real personage.

That said if, like me, you have never really studied Marx and certainly have no knowledge of his biography, then this book will be deeply shocking. First and foremost it reveals what an odious person he really was. A financial parasite on first his parents (who he effectively bled dry) and then on his family and friends, he was disgusting in every way. He never seems to have had a job, hardly ever washed, was covered in boils, stank and drank. He would get into blind rages and was horrible to his wife and kids. Little wonder that two of his daughters attempted suicide, with one of them succeeding.

At one time a Christian (his father was a converted Jew) he abandoned the faith. However he retained a fascination with the Devil, writing plays and poems about him and even at times seeming possessed by demons.

All this is spelled out in graphic detail by the author with full attribution to quotes. Frankly, I found it horrifying to think that the paranoid ramblings of this misanthrope and Luciferian should be one of the dominating philosophies of the world today. Sadly, if, with the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the ending of the Soviet Union, we thought we had seen the back of his horrible creed we were deluded. It seems that Marx is still in vogue on campuses throughout America and the West. It does not bode well for the future.

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like a horror in one's ear

The hymes to Satan Karl Marx wrote you would think early teen scribbling nonsense. Most biographers rush past the fact Marx was almost a man when he wrote those odd premonitions of the 20th Century. Indeed, I was expecting the title to be a design for sensationalism so I would click. little did I know that Satan was whispering in the ear Karl Marx!

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It might be a good book, but I'll never know

Considering the serious nature of the topic being discussed here, the narrators decision to comically caricature the voices just astounds me. It's a real shame because the content seems very good and I would have liked to listen to the whole thing, but I just can't get past the way the narrators does the voices. He has done a disservice to the authors hard work. I may buy the physical book so I can read it for myself, but I'm annoyed I wasted a credit on this.

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