Comments by "James the Other One" (@jamestheotherone742) on "Karl Marx's Anti-Semitism" video.

Ha Ha My post got deleted. Maybe auto-deleted, or maybe Google's minders have book marked your channel TIK and manually pick off posts they disagree with gleefully. Lets try again...
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Anti-Sem1tic sentiment like this was common in Europe at this time, even a given. We today (well... most people) really can't get into the headspace of how they thought back then. So its not really inexplicable for Marx to have this world view, and for it to influence his philosophy. So, no, he wasn't euphemizing about jouknowwhos as capitalists, what he was doing was using them as an ad hominem for the bourgeoisie capitalists, since they were the ones who would be the main group to overcome in the socialist revolution. So it was handy to paint capitalists as jouknowwhos, since they were a common scapegoat in Europe and I'm sure it warmed his heart to do so.
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@ivanmartinez-jd8gi IDK. Societies put up monuments to those who it values. And those values change over time. Many of the people we've been taught to hold up as heroes were just flawed people like the rest of us, and some of them were legit monsters who just happened to be on the side that wrote the history. I personally don't care much about them, as the statues and the wording of the plaques that go with them reflect more about the time they were erected than of the person it refers to. To me they are mostly just art that birds can crap on. ;+) I don't think they should be damaged/destroyed though, and definitely not torn down by mobs of ignorant morons.
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@ivanmartinez-jd8gi Which is why I don't think that we should be leaving the decision of who's statue to keep should be in the hands of a militant few. The revisionism and out of context judgement isn't childish or an accident. It is a very intentional desire to undermine the established institutions and cultural assumptions of society in order to bring about... "the revolution", or otherwise make things "better", even though usually they just make things worse. Now you understand how statues and other artifacts of antiquity are often found defaced or damaged. This is nothing new.
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@ernstwiltmann6 AH was also ethnically Jewish as well. So... I can't recall if AH had read Marx's work on socialism directly or he got it 2nd hand. By the '20s and definitely by the 30's Marxism had fragmented into a hundred different interpretations and concepts for socialism, all completing to make their version of the revolution happen. AH's aversion to Bolshevism was because it was the biggest threat in Germany to the flavor of socialism that the group he had shacked up with had. Also why he had a hate-on for the Soviet Union. He knew that at any moment Stalin could support a coup and "popular revolution" against him.
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@ernstwiltmann6 AH was a mutt bastard and a professional hypocrite so... yeah. Or any other ism. People are funny like that. It means quite a bit when your supporters of slightly different brands of socialism are killing each other in the streets. I was speaking about the group that by happenstance AH fell in on and rose to power with. But for fate, we might never of heard of him, or he would have become the head of another party, if he were less psychotic, might have been considered one of the 20th century's great leaders.
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