5/24/2023 0 Comments Kapital marx![]() ![]() In an essay published in The Philosophers magazine, Michael Ezra offers several examples of Marx’s anti-Semitism. By the time he reached adulthood he was a consummate self-hating Jew. Descended from a long line of rabbis on both his mother´s and father´s side, Karl Marx was born in an environment of self-denial. Karl Marx’s father was a Jewish lawyer converted into a Lutheran who baptized his son as a child. The father of Ferdinand Lasalle, founder of German socialism, was a silk merchant the father of Otto Bauer, leader of Austrian socialism, was a textile tycoon the father of Adolf Braun, a leader of German socialism, was an industrialist the father of Paul Singer, another important German socialist, was a clothing manufacturer the father of Victor Adler, a pioneer of social democracy in Austria, was a real estate speculator Karl Hochberg, a socialist-reformist writer, was the son of a banker in Frankfurt. ![]() When they went radical, they turned their backs to their lineage and, more often than not, to the religion of their ancestors. ![]() As Paul Johnson pointed out in The History of the Jews, many prominent nineteenth-century socialist Jews hailed from wealthy families. ![]()
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