• areyouevenreal@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    10 months ago

    I mean marx also talks about the Jews and the Christians. I thought the position was that religion helps reinforce class society.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      10 months ago

      He more talked about Judaism and Christianity, but it was relatively minor compared to actual class analysis and additionally was most famously brought up as a response to antisemetic bullshit that supported the false idea that Jewish people were controlling all of the banks and all of the money and were the source of all problems.

      Marx spoke of Religion as a component of classism, not as a replacement for it, unlike what modern anti-semites do.

      • areyouevenreal@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        10 months ago

        I was told marx was an antisemite. That’s what people say about leftists in general it seems.

        • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          10 months ago

          Marx was Jewish himself, and wrote a fiery response against an antisemetic piece. He advocated for Jewish liberation.

            • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              10 months ago

              Read Marx’s On the Jewish Question. It’s a response to the extremely anti-semetic The Jewish Question, and Marx basically goes through all of its bullshit and concludes that while religion is used by Capitalism to reinforce itself, he advocates for emancipation of religious people themselves. He was an atheist of Jewish descent.