Where Does the Left's Antisemitism Come From? Karl Marx (Money Is the Jealous God of Israel)

[nickcarraway]

If you want to know where antisemitism in leftism comes from, Karl Marx wrote an essay in 1843 called On the Jewish Question, and published it the following year

I'll post some quotes so you can get an idea of what he says:

Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist... The god of the Jews has become secularized and has become the god of the world. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange.

What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.

Very well then! Emancipation from huckstering and money, consequently from practical, real Judaism, would be the self-emancipation of our time.

An organization of society which would abolish the preconditions for huckstering, and therefore the possibility of huckstering, would make the Jew impossible. His religious consciousness would be dissipated like a thin haze in the real, vital air of society. On the other hand, if the Jew recognizes that this practical nature of his is futile and works to abolish it, he extricates himself from his previous development and works for human emancipation as such and turns against the supreme practical expression of human self-estrangement.

We recognize in Judaism, therefore, a general anti-social element of the present time, an element which through historical development – to which in this harmful respect the Jews have zealously contributed – has been brought to its present high level, at which it must necessarily begin to disintegrate.

I think you can get the idea, but I'm posting a link to it below.

For those wondering, Marx was not raised Jewish. His parents were non=-practicing Jews, but they converted to Prussian Lutheranism before the children were born. They did have the children baptized, but they were not religious, either Christian or Jewish. They raised the children completely secular, so Marx grew up with no real religious tradition.

[nickcarraway]

On the Jewish Question (Wikpedia)

On The Jewish Question (The actual text from a site called marxists.org.)

[No name given]

The fact that Karl Marx grew up in a secular home tells me all I need to know about him.

[reasonisfaith]

How deep is the deception surrounding Karl Marx?

What earthly masters did he serve, and whom beyond?

https://archive.org/details/MarxAndSatanRichardWurmbrand1976

[gov_bean_ counter]

Blame Abraham and Sarah…

[algore]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsions_and_exoduses_of_Jews

it looks like this “anti-semitism” has happened a lot.

Perhaps where there is smoke there is also a fire ?

[G Larry]

No, the Jew haters hate poor Jews equally.

The resentment comes from them being the Chosen people of God and the cultural foundation for God's Law.

Dennis Prager provided citations for the 2 origins of this assessment.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Fascinating. Thanks for posting that. I was raised Lutheran, so am not that familiar with Jewish history, but the hatred of the Jewish people and the huge number of pogroms throughout history is astonishing to me.

Wiki has a good article on History of Antisemitism.

"One of the earliest anti-Jewish edicts, promulgated by Antiochus Epiphanes in about 170–167 BCE, sparked a revolt of the Maccabees in Judea.

The ancient Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria describes an attack on Jews in Alexandria in 38 CE in which thousands of Jews died. The violence in Alexandria may have been caused by the Jews' being portrayed as misanthropic. Tcherikover argues that the reason for the hatred of Jews in the Hellenistic period was their separateness in the Greek cities, the poleis. However, Bohak has argued that early animosity against the Jews cannot be regarded as being anti-Judaic or antisemitic unless it arose from attitudes that were held against the Jews alone, because many Greeks showed animosity towards any group which they considered barbaric."

[UnwashedPeasant]

Most people who hate Jews do so because they hate God and they are envious that Jews are God’s chosen people.

[Alvin Diogenes]

How ironic that Marx accused the Jews of being money-grubbing when he espoused class warfare (I.e., money) as the driving force of history. Looks like projection to me.

[nickcarraway]

Yes, and if you hates Jews, you will eventually hate Christians.

[LS]

Also fascinating to look at Hitler’s attack on Jews in light of them “corrupting” the “blood” of Germans. Only a “blood purge” could reclaim Germany, make it eternal. Hitler borrowed heavily from Marx.

[ModelBreaker]

I looked at a couple of google articles on this essay — all by academics. They do summersaults to avoid this language or to say that Marx was obviously hardcore antisemitic.

[cowboyusa]

ABSOLO FREAKEN LOUTLEY!

[imardmd1]

The fact that Karl Marx grew up in a secular home tells me all I need to know about him.

Not necessarily. Dislike of the Jews and their cultural aspects was the quite common attitude to Europeans from the Dark ages on.

When is the last time you read a summary of Shakespeare's famous play "The Merchant of Venice" that featured "Shylock" and his "pound of flesh" theme?

In those days a hatred of Jews by the non-Jew populace was expected from all, especially "Christians" for whom that religion was expected of a natural-born citizen, customarily baptized into it at birth obviously involuntarily, and counted to be such thereafter unless one actively refused the status.

[otness_e]

At least us European Christians during those times had the excuse of both their arranging for Jesus’s murder as well as the Talmud’s sections being leaked by a guy named Nicolas Donin showing their contempt for Jesus and Mary by blasphemously claiming that Jesus was the bastard son of a centurion and condemned to be boiled in hot excrement as well as Mary being a prostitute for their anger towards the Jews, while Marx’s distaste clearly had no religious background at all.

Personally, my big issue would be more that they defeated God in a debate at all. That bit was just blasphemous, irredeemably so, far more irredeemable than even the bits about Jesus and Mary. At least Jesus acknowledged he’d always have his enemies. What the Jewish rabbis did to God the Father in Bava Metzia was just disgusting and blasphemous towards someone who is all powerful and all knowing. In fact, want a good example of how that actually would turn out? Try reading up Korah’s Rebellion and what happened to the majority people there when THEY tried to beat God.

[otness_e]

“The resentment comes from them being the Chosen people of God and the cultural foundation for God’s Law.”

Eh, I can accept them being the Chosen people of God. What I CANNOT accept, however, is them literally beating God in a debate and making him look like a complete joke, which they claimed they did in the Talmud. My view of God is that he’s all powerful, all knowing, cannot EVER be defeated by ANYONE, anyone who even CHALLENGES him ends up pulverized in less than a second.

[nickcarraway]

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