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    A World Without Jews

    By Karl Marx and Dagobert D. Runes

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    The first English translation of Karl Marx’s anti-Semitic writings, with critical analysis by the founder of the Philosophical Library.
     
    Long available to the readers of Soviet Russia, here are the unexpurgated papers of Karl Marx on the so-called Jewish question, translated into English by philosopher Dagobert D. Runes. While most of Marx’s anti-Semitic diatribes were carefully eliminated by the translators and editors of his books, journalistic writings, and correspondence, their influence was still considerable. Readers unfamiliar with this aspect of Marx’s thought will be startled to discover how well it has served the purposes of the totalitarian regimes of our time.
     
    Runes presents this accurate and unflinching translation with the conviction that any student of Marx should be aware of this aspect of his thought. Extensive comments and critical annotations related to the material appear throughout the book.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPhilosophical Library Open Road
    Release dateJul 28, 2020
    ISBN9781504064408
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    Karl Marx

    Described as one of the most influential figures in human history, Karl Marx was a German philosopher and economist who wrote extensively on the benefits of socialism and the flaws of free-market capitalism. His most notable works, Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto (the latter of which was co-authored by his collaborator Friedrich Engels), have since become two of history’s most important political and economic works. Marxism—the term that has come to define the philosophical school of thought encompassing Marx’s ideas about society, politics and economics—was the foundation for the socialist movements of the twentieth century, including Leninism, Stalinism, Trotskyism, and Maoism. Despite the negative reputation associated with some of these movements and with Communism in general, Marx’s view of a classless socialist society was a utopian one which did not include the possibility of dictatorship. Greatly influenced by the philosopher G. W. F. Hegel, Marx wrote in radical newspapers from his young adulthood, and can also be credited with founding the philosophy of dialectical materialism. Marx died in London in 1883 at the age of 64.

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    • 1/5
      He came from a line of rabbis and was Jewish until he was 6/7 when he was baptized at 6 and mother converted when he was 7. His father also converted to Lutherism only 2 years previous to Marx’s birth to advance in a career. This book is misleading with the annotations and analysis of his writings. Also Marx was nothing like a totalitarian nationalist leader and was died way before any fascist totalitarian nationalist leader was in power. Stalin and Hitler were and still are not communists and did not believe in Marxist ideology.

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      Just noting that the very first page of this "translation" is missing an entire sentence.

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      Karl Marx’s title was not “A Life Without Jews” but American anti-commie propaganda intentionally mistranslated and misrepresented this work on purpose. The title is (as was originally published) “The Jewish Question” and was not anti-Semitic. Do your own research — capitalism will do whatever it takes to convince you communism is bad, including doing things like this book.

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      Anti Semitic and what the hell is it doing here then

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      As scholars of the history of Hitler well know, Hitler was a Marxist. Marxism is the sewer pipe from which much of the world's hatred and mass murder have spewed. Anyone who "teaches" Marxism is an ideological indoctrinator, not an educator. Marxism should be run out of the colleges and universities.

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    • 5/5
      It’s beautiful book I am learning a lot from book

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    A World Without Jews - Karl Marx

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    A World Without Jews

    Karl Marx

    Translated from the original German with an introduction by Dagobert D. Runes

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    PHILOSOPHICAL LIBRARY

    New York

    Contents

    INTRODUCTION

    FOREWORD

    I. THE JEWISH QUESTION

    II. THE CAPACITY OF TODAY’S JEWS AND CHRISTIANS TO BECOME FREE

    FURTHER COMMENT ON THE JEWISH QUESTION

    Books by Dagobert D. Runes

    INTRODUCTION

    It is with some reluctance that I have agreed to write these introductory lines to Karl Marx’s embittered review of the Jewish problem. My reluctance is caused by the awareness that the Marxian type of anti-Semitism is still virulent among those furtive few who find in Jew hatred a compensative way of living out the envies of their drab existences.

    On the other hand, our present era has been offered the repeated spectacle of the yellow badge of anti-Semitism attached to banners allegedly flying for Socialism.

    Almost a generation ago, the National Socialist Party of Germany adorned its Staffel with that badge, and in our living days the red flag of the Soviet Union carries next to the hammer and sickle the hooked cross.

    Was it just an ill wind of history that brought the evil odor of Jew hatred into these humanitarian camps of Socialist movements? Or are we faced here with a situation of direct cause and effect?

    I should like to cite a few paragraphs from the booklet that lies before you. These lines which I am quoting are not from the pen of Adolf Hitler or Colonel Nasser, but verbatim translations from the German original of the Father of Socialism, Karl Marx:

    "Money is the zealous one God of Israel, beside which no other God may stand. Money degrades all the gods of mankind and turns them into commodities. Money is the universal and self-constituted value set upon all things. It has therefore robbed the whole world, of both nature and man, of its original value. Money is the essence of man’s life and work, which have become alienated from him: this alien monster rules him and he worships it.

    "The God of the Jews has become secularized and is now a worldly God. The bill of exchange is the Jew’s real God. His God is the illusory bill of exchange.

    "What is the foundation of the Jew in our world? Practical necessity, private advantage.

    "What is the object of the Jew’s worship in this world? Usury. What is his worldly God? Money.

    Very well then: emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.

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    Some readers may raise the question in their minds, what attitude are we to take toward this man who was himself a Jew? To those readers, I reply that in the middle of the nineteenth century anti-Semitism was mainly a religious and social, not a racial, issue, and among converts such as Karl Marx are to be found vitriolic enemies of Judaism. The convert as a tool in the hands of professional Jew baiters is to be found as early as the Middle Ages in the person of the Jew Pfefferkorn who assisted in attempts to put Jewish sacred literature to the torch. And little more than ten years ago in the Soviet Union, the Jew Ilya Ehrenburg led the attack against Jewish writers as being cosmopolitan, non-patriotic and Zionist. This he did at the grave of almost eight hundred Yiddish poets, writers, and novelists who had been executed at the behest of Stalin.

    Karl Marx was not only born a Jew; he came from a rabbinical family. His father Heschel Marx accepted Christianity in 1816 in order to practice law in Prussian territory. Like many converts, Marx found it necessary all his life to justify the mass conversion of his family by attacks against his blood brothers.

    Anti-Semitic expressions of his are to be found mainly in the present essay, in his Class Struggles in France, In the Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, and in his Letters to Engels, censored by Bebel and Bernstein. Some of the editors of his writings attempted to modify the vindictiveness of Marx’s aggression. Others, like Mehring, even intensified them.

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