>This passage was particularly choice, reminding me very much of the
>tenor of discourse from certain quarters here on LBO:
>
>"In this situation, it’s not surprising that, in East Germany, Karl Marx
>still ranks as the “best of Germans,” while, lumped together, Westerners
>and Easterners rate him as third only after Konrad Adenauer, West
>Germany’s first chancellor, and Martin Luther. Of course, as political
>scientist Konrad Löw points out, the Left in both parts of Germany has
>successfully suppressed Marx’s most appalling statements, openly
>supporting terrorism and the “destruction of the state, religion of any
>kind, the bourgeois society, Judaism, legal order and especially private
>property, marriage and the family.” [Oh my] Neither will you hear in
>contemporary Germany that Marx, who was of Jewish descent, was a
>consummate bigot who in his letters to Friedrich Engels labeled
>Ferdinand Lassalle, Social Democracy’s curly-haired founder, a “Jewish
>n-word.”"
>
>See, Karl really was an antisemite! :-D
Oh yes, Marx is regularly villified around here.
Why are you so obsessed with anti-Semitism, or anti-anti-Semitism? It strikes me as a little weird.
Doug