Marx wrote,
‘In the signs that bewilder the middle class, the aristocracy, and the prophets of regression, we recognise our brave friend, Robin Goodfellow, the old mole that can work in the earth so fast—the revolution.’^
Scholars who have read this apparently never looked into the identity of this Robin Goodfellow, Marx’s brave friend, the worker for revolution.
The 16th century evangelist William Tyndale uses Robin Goodfellow as a name for the devil.^*
Shakespeare in his Midsummer Night’s Dream calls him ‘the knavish spirit that misleads nightwanderers, laughing at their harm.’^**
Thus, according to Marx, considered the father of Communism, a demon was the author of the Communist revolution and was his personal friend.
^ Robert Payne, Marx, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968 p.306
^* William Tyndale, Works, (Parker So., 1849), quoted by the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1933, vol. VIII, p. 735.
^** William Shakespeare, Complete Works Gleniew, Scott, Foresman, 1973, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act II, Scene I, 33-34, p. 189.