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To: DrNo
... and positing an identity between "Judaism" and "Capitalism" ...
Of all your claims this is the most laughable. The Jews of Marx's era were not capitalists; they were ghetto-dwellers, forced to live in the margins. Some became bankers-money-lenders-usurers, like the Rothschilds, but this was also an artifact of their exclusion from civil and economic life, as Jews were excluded from trades and schools.

The historical illiteracy of our era strikes again.
112 posted on 02/19/2002 2:34:30 PM PST by Asclepius
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To: Asclepius
The historical illiteracy of our era strikes again.

Doctor:

Now that I've had a chance to get to my office and check my sources, let me offer the following support for my earlier-stated reading of "On the Jewish Question."

Robert Tucker (The Marx Engels Reader, 1972, W.W. Norton, page 24) offers the following observation on the piece:

"In the second part, Marx proceeds to the criticism of economics or commerce, which he equates with 'Judaism.'

"His concluding call for the 'emancipation of society from Judaism' (which has been seen on occassion as a manifesto of anti-Semitism) is in fact a call for the emancipation of society from what he here calls 'huckstering,' or from what he was subsequently to call 'capitalism.' "

I can see where you'd call me a(n) historical illiterate, I'm just a dumb working-class kid from the Mid-West at a Southern state university, but Robert C. Tucker is/was a Profesor of Politics at Princeton University!

P.S. Since this is apparently his area of expertise, I trust you will not accuse me of having committed the fallacy of ad verecundiam!

124 posted on 02/20/2002 11:22:56 AM PST by DrNo
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