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ISBN 10: 389626284X
ISBN 13: 9783896262844
Author: Mario Kessler
This slim volume of twelve essays, half of them previously published, is by a young historian from the former German Democratic Republic. With a career that barely survived the dogmatism of both East and West and then of re-unification, Mario Kessler reflects not only his own unease with the difficult question of anti-Semitism and socialism, but that of Marxist theoreticians, historians, party strategists, working-class organizations and Jewish organizations over a span of over 150 years.
This is an ambitious agenda and Kessler has taken on more than he can chew. In the first place, the title is a misnomer. Kessler is understandably more concerned with socialism in Germany, with a sideways glance at Russia, than in other countries. second, while the articles in this book are arranged in roughly chronological order, suggesting historical evolution, the separate focus of each one undercuts any development, theoretical or historical, of the announced theme of anti-Semitism. Finally, Kessler has another underlying agenda and that is to rehabilitate historically the smaller German socialist parties, dissidents to the Communist Parties, and to plead for a pluralistic, radical democratic Marxism better attuned to the complexity of social organization and its aberrations, like anti-Semitism.
The first two articles review Marx's and Engels' scattered statements on Jewishness and anti-Semitism. Both philosophers publicly repudiated bias and discrimination, while succumbing to some personal bigotry referring to others in their correspondence. Marx, raised as a Ghristian by converts from Judaism, was at pains to repudiate what he considered an archaic religion and to embrace secularism. Engels, free of that ancestry, took even stronger stands against the rising anti-Semitism of the late...
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Tags: Mario Kessler, Anti Semitism, Socialism, Selected, Essays
