> >by the way, does anyone care to comment on Marx's anti-Semitism? or
have
> >i missed that discussion?
> >
> >R
> >
>
> Read Hal Draper's discussion of On the Jewish Question to deflate that
> particular myth. This is in his big four volume work KM's Theory or
> Revolution, I think in an appendix to one of the first two volumes. The
long
> and short of it is that Marx opposed Moses Hess's position of dealing with
> disenfranchisement of Jews by giving them group rights, and urged instead
> that all people be given civil and political rights; but he felt that this
> would not solve the democratic deficiencies as long as society was based
on
> commerce--this was a very early formulation, pre-Marxist, as it were. He
> thought that Hess was ignoring the social and economic problem. Because he
> was writing at the time (1843) as a Young Hegelian, in the context of the
> critique of religion, he expressed himselself in those terms, leading to
> some unforunate formulations ("dirty Jewish" and the like). But there is
> abolsutely nothing in Marx's life or later writings to lead one to think
> that he was an anti-Semite like Bakunin (to name one), who hated Jews or
> thought they should be treated worse than non-Jews. He hated religion of
all
> sorts of course. jks
>
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