Marx and the Jews: Another View

The Image of Karl Marx towers so high above all other socialist thinkers that it has encouraged iconolatry. In no other area is this more prevalent than in considering the problem of Marx and the Jews. This is hardly conducive to advancing “scientific method” in the study of history.

Many socialists and Marxists, understandably, have evaded or rationalized the anti-Semitic strand in the work of Marx. Before me lies the 1903 edition of Frederick [Friedrich] Engels’s Feuerbash: The Roots of Socialist Philosophy, translated and edited by Austin Lewis, published by Charles H. Kerr & Co. The appendix contains Marx’s “Theses” on Feuerbach. How valuable these theses were to young socialist...