I never said Marx wasn't attacking Judaism. (He attacks every religion!)But all religions weren't equally bad to him. He attacks Judaism as being the religion of the oppressors, it's much worse to him than Christianity (although all religions would have to be eliminated eventually).
But all religions weren't equally bad to him.
Yes. They were.
Marx singles out Judaism as a special case because the Jews of his era were suffering miserably and Marx wanted to
save them! Read the essay again; it's filled with compassion. Marx felt--rightly or wrongly--that the Judaism of the Jews was a manifestation of their oppression, their alabi for their sufferings, the reason they wouldn't rise up against their exploiters and tormentors.
You cannot misread a text any more violently then you have misread
this one.