When Karl Marx called the Socialist Jew Ferdinad Lassalle a "Jewish Nigger"...

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Important read below... --CSR

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A History of the Jews
 By Paul Johnson

pages 351-353

Marx's most flagrant exercise in self-hatred, however, was directed at his fellow socialist Ferdinand Lassalle (1824-64), a Breslau Jew who changed his name from Lasal in honour of the French revolutionary hero and went on to become the founder of German socialism as a mass movement. His practical achievements in the cause were much more considerable than Marx's own. Despite or perhaps because of this he was made the object of extraordinary vituperation in Marx's correspondence with Engels.

Marx called him "Baron Itzig", the 'Jewish Nigger'. He saw him as a Polish Jew and (as he put it), 'The Jews of Poland are the dirtiest of all races.' Engels wrote to Marx, March 1856: "[Lassalle] is a real Jew from the Slav frontier and he has always been willing to exploit party affairs for private purposes. It is revolting to see how he is always trying to push his way into the aristocratic world. He is a greasy Jew disguised under brilliantine and flashy jewels.'  In attacking Lassalle's Jewishness, and sneering at his syphilis, Marx did not scruple to use the oldest of all anti-semitic (just simple description--CSR) smears. Thus he wrote to Engels, 10 May 1861: 'A propos Lasalle-Lazarus. Lepsius in his great work on Egypt has proved that the exodus of the Jews from Egypt was nothing but the history which Mantheto narrates of the expulsion of the "leprous people" from Egypt. At the head of these lepers was an Egyptian priest, Moses. Lazarus, the leper, is therefore the archetype of the Jew, and Lassalle is the typical Leper.' Or again, 30 July 1862: 'It is now perfectly clear to me that, as the shape of his head and the growth of his hair indicates, he is descended from Negroes who joined Moses' flight from Egypt (unless his mother or grandmother on the father's side was crossed with a nigger). This union of Jew and German on a Negro base was bound to produce an extraordinary hybrid.'

Marx's personal anti-Semitism, however disagreeable in itself, might have played no greater part in his lifework than it did in Heine's, had it not been part of systematic and theoretical anti-Semitism in which Marx, quite unlike Heine, profoundly believed. In fact it is true to say that Marx's theory of communism was the end-product of his theoretical "anti-Semitism". Spinoza had first shown how a critique of Judaism could be used to reach radical conclusions about the world. His example had been followed by the French Enlightenment, though their treatment of Judaism was far more hostile, and racial, in tone. Among radical German writers, the idea of solving the 'Jewish Problem' might provide a key to solving the problems of humanity was much discussed. In the 1820s and 1830s, this was the route the much abused Ludwig Borne had taken towards socialism. In 1843 Burno Bauer, the anti-Semitic leader of the Hegelian left, published and essay demanding that the Jews abandon Judaism completely and transform their plea for equal rights into a general campaign for human liberation both from a religion and from state tyranny.

Marx replied to Bauer's work in two essays published in the Deustch-Franscosische Jahrburcher in 1844, the same year Disraeli published Trancred. They are called "On the Jewish Question". Marx accepted completely the savagely anti-Semitic context of Bauer's argument, which he said was written 'with boldness, perception, wit and thoroughness in language that is as precise as it is vigorous and meaningful'. He quoted with approval Bauer's maliciously exaggerated assertion that 'the Jew determines the fate of the whole [Austrian] empire by his money power...[and] decides the destiny of Europe'. Where he differed was in rejecting Bauer's belief that the anti-social nature of the Jew was religious in origin and could be remedied by tearing the Jew away from his religion. In Marx's view, the evil was social and economic. 'Let us', he wrote,'consider the real Jew. Not the Sabbath Jew... but the everyday Jew.' What, he asked, was 'the profane basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly cult of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly god? Money.'   The Jews had gradually conveyed this 'practical' religion to all society:
   

Money is the jealous God of Israel, besides which no other god may exist. Money abases all the gods of mankind and changes them into commodities. Money is the self-sufficient 'Value' of all things. It has therefore, deprived the whole world, both the human world and nature, of their own proper value. Money is alienated essence of man's work, and existence: this essence dominates him and he worships it. The god of the Jews has been secularized and has become the god of this world.

The Jews, Marx continued, were turning Christians into replicas of themselves, so that the once staunchly Christian New Englanders, for example, were now the slaves of Mammon. Using his money-power, the Jew had emanicipated himself and had gone on to enslave Christianity. The Jew-corrupted Christian 'is convinced he has no other destiny here below than to become richer then his neighbors' and 'the world is a stock exchange'. Marx argued that the contradiction between the Jew's theoretical lack of political rights and 'the effective power of the Jew' is the contradiction between politics and 'the power of money in general'. Political power supposedly overrides money; in fact 'it has become its bondsman'. Hence: 'It is from its own entrails that civil society ceaselessly engenders the Jews'.
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(After enlarging the concept of "Jew" to "Capitalist" in his theory...CSR)
      
Marx was no longer concerned with specific Jewish witches to be hunted but with generalized human witches. The theory remained irrational but acquired a more sophisticated appearance, making it highly attractive to educated radicals. To reverse Bebel's saying, if anti-Semitism is the "socialism of fools", socialism became the "Anti-Semitism of intellectuals". An intellectual like Lenin, who clearly perceived the irrationality of the Russian anti-Semitic progrom (due to typical Jew Talmudic Usury--CSR), and would have been ashamed to conduct one, nevertheless fully accepted its spirit once the target was expanded into the whole Capitalist class - and went on to conduct pogroms on an infinitely greater scale (against Christian Goyim), killing hundreds of thousands on the basis not of individual guilt but merely of membership of a condemned group.

Once Marx had generalized his anti-Semitism into his theory of capital, his interest in the Jews was pushed into the background. Occasionally, as on a palimpsest, it reappears in the pages of Capital. Thus: 'The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews.' More important was the general retention of the aggressive emotional tone so characteristic of anti-Semitism (and Jews). The archetype Jew was replaced by the archetype "Capitalist", but the caricature features were essentially the same. Take, for instance, Marx's presentation of the Capitalist monster himself:
         

Only in so far as the capitalist is personified capital has he a historical value...Fanatically bent upon the exploitation of value, he relentlessly drives human beings to production for production's sake... he shares with the miser the passion for wealth as wealth. But that which in the miser assumes the aspect of mania, is in the capitalist the effect of the social mechanism in which he is only a driving wheel... his actions are a mere function of the capital which, through his instrumentality, is endowed with will and consciousness, so that his own private consumption must be regarded by him as robbery perpetrated upon accumulation.

Could such a weird personification of humanity ever have existed? But then, when had the anti-Semitic archetype Jew actually existed in real life? That Marx still, in his emotions, confused the Jew and capitalist is suggested by the footnote he appended to the passage just quoted. He referrred to the usurer, terming him 'the old-fashioned but perennially renewed form of the capitalist'. Marx knew that in the minds of most of his readers the "usurer" was the Jew - as Toussenel put it, the terms of "usurer" and "Jew" were interchangeable. Most of the footnote consisted of Luther's violent polemic against the usurer.

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Then too there was the Talmudic tradition of communal provision (for Jews only), which itself had Biblical origins, and which adumbrated modern forms of "State Collectivism". Jews who became socialists in the nineteenth century and who attacked the unequal distribution of wealth produced by liberal, laissez-faire capitalism were expressing in contemporary language Jewish principles which were 3,000 years old and which had become part of the instincts of the people.

But was it not true, as Disraeli claimed, that Jews also had a high regard for authority, hierarchy and traditional order? It was true, but subject to important qualifications. Jews, as we have seen, had never accorded absolute power to any human agency. Rule resided in the Torah (and Kabballah-Talmud) and the vicarious authority accorded to man was limited, temporary, and recoverable. Judaism could never have evolved, as Latin Christianity did, the theory of the "divine right of kings" (so they destroyed Monarchy in Europe via Masons, War and Revolution--CSR).

Jews had the strongest regard for the rule of law, so long as it was ethically based, and they could and did become devoted adherents of "Constitutionally" based systems, as in the United States and Britain. To that extent Disraeli was correct in arguing that Jews were often natural "Tories". But they were also natural enemies to authority which was arbitrary and tyrannical, illogical or outmoded (or just Anti-Scam). When Marx wrote, 'Thus we find every tyrant backed by a Jew, as is every Pope by a Jesuit. In truth, the cravings of oppressors would be hopeless and the practicability of war out of the question, if there were not an army of Jesuits to smother thought and a handful of Jews to ransack Pockets,'... he was wrong. Rothschild loans to absolute monarchies were geared not to reinforce tyranny but to abate it, especially in securing better treatment for Jews (in which, of course, Marx was not interested.) Jewish money power in the 19th century, in so far as it had any overall political policy, tended to be irenic and constitutionalist. 'Peace, retrenchment and reform',

Gladstone's famous Liberal slogan, was also the axiom of the Rothschilds.
       

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It's like watching a circus seeing this mental disease turned on itself. All the layers of programming have to fight internally before the logical sequence continues. The thing that makes this situation all the more hopeless is that the disease itself recognises and accepts its malignancy, and has built its entire structure on the premise of proving itself otherwise.