There was was not class struggle. Marx needed to publish. He had to produce original work, to keep his position in society. And he was quite prolific. And if anyone thinks they know Marx or Orwell, and are not familiar with the entire bodies of work, they are fooling themselves. He wrote 21 books, mostly knocking some others' stance and proposing false alternates.
There is so much hateful about Karl Marx, besides the clap-trap of false class distinction., His books should be read with a jaundiced eye and scorn for this false profit. (spelling intended)
On the Jewish Question _Karl Marx. 1844 (almost 100 years before the Holocaust) I can put square blame on Marx for that. I don't know why anyone would Lionize him. Just ignorant is all.
Here is his conclusion on "the Jew"......see for yourself.
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http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/
In its perfected practice, Christian egoism of heavenly bliss is necessarily transformed into the corporal egoism of the Jew, heavenly need is turned into world need, subjectivism into self-interest. We explain the tenacity of the Jew not by his religion, but, on the contrary, by the human basis of his religion – practical need, egoism.
Since in civil society the real nature of the Jew has been universally realized and secularized, civil society could not convince the Jew of the
unreality of his
religious nature, which is indeed only the ideal aspect of practical need. Consequently, not only in the Pentateuch and the Talmud, but in present-day society we find the nature of the modern Jew, and not as an abstract nature but as one that is in the highest degree empirical, not merely as a narrowness of the Jew, but as the Jewish narrowness of society.
Once society has succeeded in
abolishing the empirical essence of Judaism – huckstering and its preconditions – the Jew will have become impossible, because his consciousness no longer has an object, because the subjective basis of Judaism, practical need, has been humanized, and because the conflict between man’s individual-sensuous existence and his species-existence has been abolished.
The
social emancipation of the Jew is the
emancipation of society from Judaism.
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You can recognize the thinking a a precursor to Eugenics.
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Next day edit: Doesn't Marx really seem like a wordy, blowhard, turd brain?
