Karl Marx #12- What is Marx's Essay on the Jewish Question?
Join Sparks oh History with
Professor Jonathan Sperber
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life (Liveright Publishing, 2013)
2014 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Biography
'absorbing, meticulously researched biography' – New York Times
Curator Professor Emeritus of History, University of Missouri
Member, German Studies Association
Member, American Historical Association
Selected works
• Popular Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Germany
• The Kaiser's Voters: Electors and Elections in Imperial Germany
• Revolutionary Europe, 1780-1850
• The European Revolutions, 1848-1851
#12 What is Marx’s Essay on the Jewish Question?
• Background: Jews not citizens of Germany
• Germans must be Christians
• Even Protestants – Judaism/Jews inferior
• Bruno Bauer: The Jewish Question
• Secular State – Jewish Rights
• But Jews need to abandon Judaism
• Marx’s Essay a response to Bauer
• Marx favors Separation of Church and State
• Marx however equates (evil) Capitalism with Jews
• Communism = No Capitalism = No Judaism/Jews
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free