A Brief History
On February 21, 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published The Communist Manifesto, a book that has become the antithesis of capitalists everywhere and to many, synonymous with all that is wrong with the communist sympathizers of the world.
Digging Deeper
Another book that has achieved a distinct level of distaste among a large part of humanity is Mein Kampf, the fascist manifesto by Adolf Hitler that inspired the catastrophe of World War II and the Holocaust, and continues to inspire haters even today.
Obviously, people of certain religions detest the holy books of competing religions, such as the Koran, The Bible, The Book of Mormon, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, anything to do with Scientology, and of course, the Codex Gigas, also known as “The Devil’s Bible.” Some creationists may find Darwin’s On the Origin of Species abhorrent.
What books do you find detestable?
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Historical Evidence
For more information, please see…
Lavey, Allan and Andreas Bathory. The Devil’s Bible. William Allan Lavey, Andreas Bathory, 2018.
Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto. International Publishers Co, 2014.
The featured image in this article, Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx on a 1948 stamp of the Soviet Union, is not an object of copyright according to article 1259 of Book IV of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation No. 230-FZ of December 18, 2006.
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