June 17, 2020 By Andrea Widburg
One of the constants of communism is anti-Semitism. It's baked into the Marxist pie, starting with Karl Marx himself, whose anti-Semitic writings are indistinguishable from Hitler's. Given New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's communist credentials, his escalating hostility to the politically conservative, religiously orthodox Jews in his city should not come as a surprise.
As background, Karl Marx came from a Jewish family. Shortly before he was born, though, his father converted to the state Evangelical Church of Prussia for purely pragmatic reasons. A child of the Enlightenment with little patience for religion, Herr Marx Sr. could not advance in Prussia as a Jew.
Young Karl Marx came to loathe his Jewish heritage. It was he who converted traditional European anti-Semitism, which was centered entirely on the Jewish rejection of Christ, into socialist anti-Semitism, which ties Jews to financial capital. (Marx did this even though the vast majority of Europe's Jews lived in abysmal poverty, with only a small number, many of whom had been able to take advantage of Prussia's brief window of Enlightenment, achieving any wealth.)
It's one thing for thousands of people to support black trans lives; it's
another thing altogether for Jewish children to play in city parks.
If you're interested in Marx's "unambiguous" anti-Semitism, the best article is Michael Ezra's "Karl Marx's Radical Antisemitism." It discusses Marx's
essay "On the Jewish Question," which sounds remarkably close to
something Hitler or Stalin (or Al Sharpton or Louis Farrakhan) could
have written:........... To Read More
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