Marx & the Jewish Question

[sokol at jhu.edu]

At 07:04 AM 2/17/99 -0800, Brad DeLong wrote:
>Re:
>>
>>I regard "On the Jewish Question" as one of the most difficult and seminal
>>of all Marx's work. On the surface the problem is whether some of his
>>remarks, transposed across time and space to the present, are anti-semitic.
>
>Ummm... They are anti-semitic now, and they were anti-semitic then, and
>they were anti-semitic there...

Let's see.  If you deconstruct the so-called "jewish identity" and you
happen to be a gentile - you are an anti-semite; otherwise you are a
"self-hating Jew."  Damned if you do, damned if you don't  because we say
so - that is what I find most revulsive in the whole identity politcs
business.

regards,

Wojtek