Marx a racist?

[Jochen Stremmel]

What I think is curious: that Ezra mentions nowhere (as far as I can see)
that Marx himself was a Jew, with Rabbis in his paternal and maternal line.

Karl Marx was born on 5 May 1818 to Heinrich Marx (1777–1838) and Henrietta
Pressburg (1788–1863). He was born at Brückengasse 664 in Trier, a town
then part of the Kingdom of Prussia's Province of the Lower Rhine.[16] Marx
was ancestrally Jewish; his maternal grandfather was a Dutch rabbi, while
his paternal line had supplied Trier's rabbis since 1723, a role taken by
his grandfather Meier Halevi Marx.[17] Karl's father, as a child known as
Herschel, was the first in the line to receive a secular education; he
became a lawyer and lived a relatively wealthy and middle-class existence,
with his family owning a number of Moselle vineyards. Prior to his son's
birth, and to escape the constraints of anti-semitic legislation, Herschel
converted from Judaism to Lutheranism, the main Protestant denomination in
Germany and Prussia at the time, taking on the German forename of Heinrich
over the Yiddish Herschel.[18] Marx was also a third cousin once removed of
German Romantic poet Heinrich Heine, also born to a German Jewish family in
the Rhineland, with whom he became a frequent correspondent in later
life.[19][page needed]

>From the wikipedia.

But, yes, I think you can say he was a racist. (Kant was a racist, too.)


2017-08-21 14:51 GMT+02:00 ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>:

> When considering Marx and his views towards Jews, one must go further
> than his infamous essay, his correspondence also needs to be
> considered. Marx used the Bambergers to borrow money but showed
> contempt for them. In a derogatory fashion he referred to the father
> and son as “Jew Bamberger” or “little Jew Bamberger.” Similarly,
> Spielmann, whose name appears frequently in correspondence between
> Marx and Engels was referred to as “Jew Spielmann.” When on holiday in
> Ramsgate in 1879, Marx reported to Engels that the resort contained
> “many Jews and fleas.” In an earlier letter to Engels, Marx referred
> to Ferdinand Lassalle as a “Jewish nigger.” Professor Fine has not
> discussed this but I do not see such comments as “witty” or “ironic,”
> they are simply racist.
>
> https://www.philosophersmag.com/opinion/30-karl-marx-s-
> radical-antisemitism
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