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To: Asclepius
I have had some difficulty following your responses on this thread. You seem to trying to defend Marx from charges of anti-semitism, yet his works are shot full of it. Marx's father was a Lutheran convert from Judaism. It would appear that Marx's whole hatred of the bourgeoisie was a projection onto the larger society of what he saw as specific jewish characteristics. There seems to be a psychological dimension to Marx's hate, perhaps coming from his feelings toward his father. Indeed, it has been said that the psychological basis of leftist ideology lies in a hatred of the father.

After the horrific, blood soaked 20th century, in which more people were murdered by their governments in deliberate pursuit of Marxist ideology than were killed in all the wars, I would not expect any reasonable person to be trying to defend this man whose actions in his personal life (see the Paul Johnson capsule biography in "Intellectuals") embodied the same malevolence as his philosophy.

107 posted on 02/19/2002 12:08:42 PM PST by thucydides
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To: thucydides
... It would appear that Marx's whole hatred of the bourgeoisie was a projection onto the larger society of what he saw as specific jewish characteristics ...
For those who content themselves with the text on the page, as opposed to attempting to read the minds of writers or divine the hidden intents of their hearts, what you write is a complete waste of bandwidth.

Read the essay again.
109 posted on 02/19/2002 12:50:56 PM PST by Asclepius
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