[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.

[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.

[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.

[nickcarraway]

Australian Labor Government Pushes Anti-Doxxing Laws to Protect Zionist Witch-Hunters

[nickcarraway]

Bump

[nickcarraway]

This is why Mamdani doesn’t like Jews. It’s in leftist DNA.

[jjotto]

What Marx knew of religion was certainly shaped by his professor Bruno Bauer, a critic of the New Testament, and a course lecturer on Isaiah attended by Marx.

Marx left voluminous writings from personal letters to lengthy books. None indicate any familiarity with anything traditionally Jewish, and his attitude to Jews was typical for a German of the time.

[af_vet_1981]

If you want to know where antisemitism in leftism comes from,

It comes from the same place that antisemitism on the right comes from.

1 John 3:

20 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: 
whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, 
neither he that loveth not his brother.

11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, 
that we should love one another.

12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. 
And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, 
and his brother's righteous.

13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.

14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, 
because we love the brethren. 
He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: 
and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, 
because he laid down his life for us: 
and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.