It must have taken Barton Swaim a Herculean amount of strength to resist mentioning On the Jewish Question, that piece largely irrelevant to scientific socialism that antisocialists looooove bringing up over and over again.
Anyway, I don’t see the need in addressing this crap point by point since almost any of us could do it if we had the time, patience, or interest in doing so. Unfalsifiable assertions, huge chunks of context missing (hey Barton, what happened to all of those Arabs in 1948?), begging the question, outright misinformation—it’s not that responding would be hard, it would just be too time‐consuming and unrewarding to put in the effort. That said, it is worth using this moment as an opportunity to remind people whence the neocolony received so much of its early funding:
Indeed, prior to [1948], the Haavara transfer was a huge booster for the Zionist economy in Palestine. Zionist sources speak of a sum of 139.6 million Reichmarks — an enormous sum for that time being transferred from [the Third Reich] to [the occupation of] Palestine.43 Another source gives the amount transferred as eight million pounds sterling[.]44 The capitalist Zionist economy thus grew. It was not a coincidence that the most important projects in [the neocolony] were founded or directed by emigrants from [the Third Reich].
On the Jewish Question, that piece largely irrelevant to scientific socialism that antisocialists looooove bringing up over and over again.
Based on Roderick Day’s interpretation of the text it seems to really hold up. Marx is saying the sickness anti-semites ascribe to the Jews and actually dominant throughout capitalist society, regardless of religion.
And Marx was fairly young when he wrote it. Most of the more regrettable language in it can safely be attributed to a young radical reacting against his background, the way baby socialists from the American Bible Belt lean hard into the athiesm part of historical communism.
It must have taken Barton Swaim a Herculean amount of strength to resist mentioning On the Jewish Question, that piece largely irrelevant to scientific socialism that antisocialists looooove bringing up over and over again.
Anyway, I don’t see the need in addressing this crap point by point since almost any of us could do it if we had the time, patience, or interest in doing so. Unfalsifiable assertions, huge chunks of context missing (hey Barton, what happened to all of those Arabs in 1948?), begging the question, outright misinformation—it’s not that responding would be hard, it would just be too time‐consuming and unrewarding to put in the effort. That said, it is worth using this moment as an opportunity to remind people whence the neocolony received so much of its early funding:
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Based on Roderick Day’s interpretation of the text it seems to really hold up. Marx is saying the sickness anti-semites ascribe to the Jews and actually dominant throughout capitalist society, regardless of religion.
And Marx was fairly young when he wrote it. Most of the more regrettable language in it can safely be attributed to a young radical reacting against his background, the way baby socialists from the American Bible Belt lean hard into the athiesm part of historical communism.