Just more evidence of Marx being anti-semitic
If he was he never mentioned it publicly. You’re probably thinking of his essay “On the Jewish Question” where Marx’s argument is that even if all the negative stereotypes of Jews were true (greed, usury, scheming), they’re all features of capitalism anyway. The most noteworthy bigoted thing I can think of is one time Marx called Ferdinand Lassalle a combination of slurs in a private letter to Engels.
Now compare Marx to some of his vocally antisemitic contemporaries like Bruno Bauer who wanted Judaism made illegal, or Proudhon who wanted complete genocide.
I did some reading after I posted that and I don’t think it’s unfair to consider Marx antisemitic. With quotes like “What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.…. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man – and turns them into commodities…. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange…. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.”
Not to conflate Marx with marxism. I’m an anarchist and there’s plenty of problematic figures in anarchist history. You mentioned Proudhon, Bakunin had some… problematic takes as well. Just the way it goes
Was looking through the Quran too but didn’t find a statement where Mohammed condemns the actions of HAMAS and expresses solidarity with the state of Israel, pretty problematic imo
Even worse, he wrote an entire book called “On The Jewish Question”. What the fuck? Haven’t read it btw, but I imagine the contents are horrible!
This just proves that the left are the real Nazis, unlike actual Nazis who are just concerned citizens that we can work with unlike the left.
