A Comparison

A Comparison

1991 7 July 14 A Comparison (315) Aleksandr Tosipko, at 50 a well-known Russian philosopher, and professor at the Moscow Institute of International Economic and Political Studies, interviewed in Moscow by a correspondent of the American weekly, Newsweek. A report of the interview appeared in the July 23, 1990, issue of the magazine. Here is one of the questions and its answer.

Q. How did your views of Marxism evolve?

What was most important in your personal development?

A. When you read Das Kapital, it’s all crystal clear by the time you reach page three. Only an idiot can really believe in Marxism.

Marx’s book on the capitalist economy, Das Kapital, was written in German and first published in 1867. The socialists believed that this book was the ‘Qur’an’ of the modern age. Now man had no further need of the Bible or the Qur’an to guide him. All he needed was Das Kapital. However, within a period of just one century, the magical aura around it had been dispelled to the point where, in the very heart of the communist world, the book was referred to as an ‘idiocy’.

Now, let us take the Qur’an. It has retained its importance for the last fourteen hundred years. Anything of a nature likely to undermine its importance has yet’ to be proved. The same holds for anything which casts aspersions on the Prophet to whom it was revealed. The Qur’an is, to date, completely free of any shadow of a doubt. This is an undeniable proof of the eternal truth of the Qur’an.

So for as books written by human beings are concerned, they are apt to reveal their errors before the reader has even reached page three. In striking contrast to this, the Qur’an reveals itself to be flawless right up to the very last page. This academic truth suffices to prove that the Qur’an is divine rather than human in origin.