THE DEVIL AND KARL MARX BY PAUL KENGOR- THE RACISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM OF MARX - PART TWO

 Karl Marx was a racist who cast freely with choice epithets aimed at blacks and even at Jews----ironic given that Marx was an ethnic Jew. Jonathan Sperber notes that Marx's correspondence is "filled with contemptuous remarks about Jews" Even his admiring biographer Francis Wheen, who habitually defends the worst in Marx, admits that he "sprayed anti-Semitic insults at his enemies with savage glee."

Of one contemporary Marx blasted his "cynical, oily-obtrusive, phony-Baronial Jew-manners." His fellow German socialist and labor organizer Ferdinand Lassalle, Marx referred to as a "greasy Jew" "the little Kike", "water-polack Jew", "Jew Braun", "Yid", "Izzy", "Wily Ephraim", "Baron Itzig", and "the Jewish N*gger", Referring to Lassalle in a July 30, 1862 letter to Engels, Marx discerned with a sense of confident pride, "It is now perfectly clear to me that, as the shape of his head and the growth of his hair indicates, he is descended from the Negroes who joined in Moses' flight from Egypt". Lasalle's "cranial formation" asserted Marx, a strict and proud evolutionist, was the giveaway. Of course, Marx was willing to allow for an exception " unless his mother or grandmother on the father's side was crossed with a n*gger." With a mordant twinkle in his eye, Marx concluded, "This union of Jew and German on a Negro base was bound to produce an extraordinary hybrid." Marx hastened to add, " The fellow's importunity is also n*ggerlike." Walter Williams, the economist and well known black conservative, states unequivocally that " Marx was an out and out racist and anti-Semite."