--- Jan Coffey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wasn't Marx a Jew ethnicaly?
His family converted. It's certainly possible to be a self-hating Jew. > > Were his statments about the Jewish religion and not > the Jewish people? One of the things that makes Judaism special is that you can't really distinguish the two. When he talks about the Jewish God being money he was trafficing in the vilest of anti-semitic stereotypes. > > Doesn't Marx speak poorly about nearly all > religions? He didn't write _On the Christian Problem_. > Do you consider someone who disaproves of a religion > to be a racesist? Are > the two not distict and seperate? They can be, but in the case of Judaism, they tend not to be. Jewish is both an ethnicity and a religion - pretending otherwise is sophistry, to be frank. > I must read the whole thing, but from what I can > tell, it seems that you are > mixing concepts. While Marx clearly had issues with > all religions, he does > not seem to have issue with any ethnic group, and > therefore classifying him > as an anti-semite seems dogmatic in the context of > the converstation we were > having. Again, he didn't write _On the Christian Question_. If you want to argue that he didn't have a specific animus against Judaism, you're going to have to find similar statements against other religions in his work _of the same intensity and focus_. And you can't, because they don't exist. > > Granted Marx had did have a bunch of whack ideas, > but hate for any particular > racial group doesn't seem to be one of them. > > Since you are so versed in the document, why don't > you point out where he > specifies anything to the contrary. > _________________________________________________ > Jan William Coffey Luckily for me, Dan M. did that for me. Look, Jan, you don't have to believe Marx was an anti-semite if you don't want to. You can argue with the textual evidence all you want. I think you might want to be a little more restrained in suggesting that someone doesn't know anything about a subject, though. I didn't call you on it - I was pretty confident that everyone on the list knows that I know my way around political philosophy without me waving my resume around. But it didn't exactly strengthen your argument here. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
