" Biographers who admire Marx and seek to cover for him will want to ignore his poetry among his corpus of writings. They should nonetheless bristle at what they see in Marx’s poetry. They will encounter what Paul Johnson discerned: “Savagery is a characteristic note of his verse, together with the intense pessimism of the human condition, hatred, a fascination with corruption and violence, suicide pacts and pacts with the devil.”82 "

― Paul Kengor , The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration