What was the foundation of the Jewish religion? Practical needs; egoism. Consequently the monotheism of the Jew is in reality the polytheism of many needs. Practical needs or egoism are the principle of bourgeois society, and they appear openly as such so soon as bourgeois society gives birth to the political state. The God of practical needs and egoism is money.And that of course is aside from Judaism being a religion, with all Marxists hating all religions.
Money is the jealous God of Israel, by the side of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities. Money is the general and self-constituted value of all things. Consequently it has robbed the whole world—the world of mankind as well as Nature—of its peculiar value. Money is the being of man’s work and existence alienated from himself, and this alien being rules him, and he prays to it.
The God of the Jews has secularized himself and become the universal God. Exchange is the Jew’s real God. …
Marx could never figure out that money was a value marker for “human time” which is why he had no issue stealing it in the name of redistribution....
In essence he was for the taking of one human’s effort and giving it to another human who put in no effort.
Very interesting quote from Marx - first time I’ve seen it.
Somehow he manages to spin caring for practical human needs into an evil.
It’s this simplistic reductionism that’s the real evil and that is the basis of Marxism.
Thanks for posting it.