What is Marx’s Essay on the Jewish Question?

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Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life (Liveright Publishing, 2013)
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• 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


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