Language:
German
Year of publication:
2014
Titel der Quelle:
Blätter für Deutsche und Internationale Politik
Angaben zur Quelle:
59,7 (2014) 113-120
Keywords:
Marx, Karl,
;
Antisemitism History 19th century
Abstract:
Discusses early Marx's anti-Jewish views and his polemics with Bruno Bauer on Jewish emancipation as part of a debate regarding political modernization in Germany. This debate took place among Left Hegelians and reflected developments in France, as well as the brief Napoleonic conquest of parts of Germany. Bauer och Feuerbach had not yet come to the conclusion that religion per se constituted an alienated projection of social self-understanding, but rather but believed Argues that Marx went further that Bauer and Feuerbach in his views on emancipation in that he distinguished between political and human emancipation and viewed political emancipation, as exemplified by France, as insufficient. In his early writings, such as the "Judenfrage", Marx tried first and foremost to understand the essence of democracy. He thereby launched scorching critique of monetary economy and this became the basis of his theoretical antisemitism. The Early French socialists had all shared this critique of monetary economy and, tied as they were to a Christian tradition of deamanding justice for the poor, as well as blinded by the wealth of the Rothchilds, they associated the society they fought with money and money with the Jews and Judaism. Marx came to the same erroneous conclusion. The second half of his "Judenfrage" contains a critique of the bourgeois conept of property and hateful disdain of Judaism, infleunced by Feuerbach and Christian anti-Judaism. his views also reflect Bauer's adoption of August's views of Judaism as a
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