On 3 Nov 2003, at 7:59 pm, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
--- Jan Coffey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:As Spock would say when confronted in such a way, ...Indeed.
He did, however, sound to me like one of many "Everyone who isn't a staunch conservative is out to get the Jews" kind of thinker. If he can come off that way to someone such as myself then he definitely needs to back up his claims that Marx was an anti-Semite.
Have you _read_ "On the Jewish Question?" William and I have discussed it briefly, and I've talked about it considerably more with someone else on the list.
Marx was the atheist son of Jews who converted to Christianity to get ahead in society. He was anti-Judaism and anti-Christianity. The most intelligible reading of "On the Jewish Question" is that by Jew he means someone following the Jewish religion rather than someone of Jewish descent. Anti-Semitism normally means both. Unless you think his tirade was directed against himself.
William described it as a defense against Bruno Bauer. As Prof. Mansfield pointed out when lecturing on the book, Marx's problem with Bauer was that Bauer _did not go far enough_.
Not far enough in the sense that Marx thought that rather than Jews adopting Christianity, both Jews and Christians should give up religion...
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