Leadership is inevitable; the real question is whether to follow Krishna or follow Marx.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Hayagrīva: ...and ymasundara discussed the politics of Karl Marx with you but not the religious attitudes of Marx.
Prabhupāda: He has any religious attitude?
Hayagrīva: Well, he, his father was a Jew, but he became converted to Christianity.
Hayagrīva: His father, Marx's father. And Marx's mother however remained, remained Jewish and Marx was raised a Christian. But at the age of twenty-three, after having studied some philosophy at the university, Marx became avowed atheist. And Hegel, it was Hegel who wrote, "Because the accidental is not God or the Absolute is," and Marx commented on this, "Obviously the reverse can also be said." That is because God is not, the accidental is.
Hayagrīva: Hegel said, "Because the accidental is not..." because nothing is accidental, "God exists." Marx says you can say it the other way around.
Prabhupāda: [coughs] How, how we, any sensible man can accept accidental? Eh?
Prabhupāda: He, he accidental... Just like a child takes birth, is it accidental? Beginning from the child, so it is not accidental. There, there is a father-mother unity and then the child is born, then how you can say accidental? Nothing is accidental.