A World Without Jews | Karl Marx

[Laurent de Lyon]

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FOREWORD
The booklet presented here is the first unexpurgated
English language publication of papers written by Karl
Marx originally published in Germany as a review of
the writings of Dr. Bruno Bauer, a contemporary the-
ologian and social philosopher, on "the Jewish ques-
tion."
It is interesting to note that most of Marx's anti-
Semitic references, in his correspondence, his journal-
istic writings and his books, were entirely eliminated
by his various editors. Their full text, however, is now
being published by the decidedly anti-Jewish-oriented
State Publishing House in Moscow.
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The following main references were used:
Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 1841-
1850, Vol. I, March 1841-March 1844, edited by Franz
Mehring, Stuttgart, Dietz Nachf., 1902.
Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe, M E G A , Moscow, 1927-1935;
Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe, Third Section, M E K O R , Ber-
lin, 1929-1931.
The State of Israel—Its Position and Policies by K . Ivanov
and Z . Sheinis, edited by I. Dinerstein, State Publishers of
Political Literature, Moscow. 1958.
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The Jewish Question, Braunschweig, 1843. The Capacity
of Today's Jews and Christians to Become Free, Zurich and
Winterthur, Georg Herwegh. 1843.
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Let us look at the real Jew of our time;
not the Jew of the Sabbath, whom Bauer con-
siders, but the Jew of everyday life.
What is the Jew's foundation in our world?
Material necessity, private advantage.
What is the object of the Jew's worship in
this world? Usury. What is his worldly god?
Money.
Very well then; emancipation from usury
and money, that is, from practical, real Juda-
ism, would constitute the emancipation of
our time.

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The Jew has already emancipated himself
in the Jewish way: "The Jew, who is, for ex-
ample, merely tolerated in Vienna, determines
by his money power the fate of the entire
German Empire. The Jew, who is without
rights in the smallest German state, decides
the fate of Europe... .

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This is no isolated fact. The Jew has eman-
cipated himself in the Jewish fashion not only
by acquiring money power but through mon-
ey's having become (with him or without him)
the world power and the Jewish spirit's hav-
ing become the practical spirit of the Chris-
tian peoples. The Jews have emancipated
themselves to the extent that Christians have
become Jews.

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What was the essential foundation of the
Jewish religion? Practical needs, egotism.

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Money is the zealous one God of Israel,
beside which no other God may stand. Money
degrades all the gods of mankind and turns
them into commodities. Money is the univer-
sal and self-constituted value set upon all
things. It has therefore robbed the whole
world, of both nature and man, of its original
value. Money is the essence of man's life and
work, which have become alienated from him.
This alien monster rules him and he worships
it.
The God of the Jews has become secu-
larized and is now a worldly God. The bill
of exchange is the Jew's real God. His God
is the illusory bill of exchange.

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What is stated as theory in Jewish religion,
namely, contempt for theory, art, history and
man as an end in himself, is an actual and
conscious point of view, held to be virtuous
by the man of money. Even the relations be-
tween the sexes, between man and woman,
become an object of commerce. The woman
is auctioned off.

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The law of the Jew, lacking all solid foun-
dation, is only a religious caricature of moral-
ity and of law in general, but it provides the
formal rites in which the world of property
clothes its transactions.

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Only then could Jewry become universally
dominant and turn alienated man and ali-
enated nature into alienable, salable objects,
subject to the serfdom of egotistical needs and
to usury.

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The social emancipation of Jewry is the
emancipation of society from Jewry.

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