I heard these accusations when I first started looking into Marx. I looked into them, and found the racism/antisemitism charges to be pretty weak. The only piece I've ever seen that tries to justify "racism" is his letter to Engels about Lassalle, in which he mocks Lassalle's "racial science" views by sarcastically applying them to him. A translation of this letter uses the N word, but the N word of course doesn't exist in German. I can't find the original German version of this letter. He was also very much pro-abolitionist and supported the cause of abolition during the US Civil War. Also, as others have noted, his pamphlet "On the Jewish Question" in context criticizes Judaism, but isn't particularly antisemitic, and Marx was Jewish of course on top of that. I suspect the accusations have been pushed as an op to try to dissuade certain groups from reading and adopting Marx's ideas.
Even in the UK, the N word wasn't considered problematic or derogatory in the same way as the US (though of course it was and TERF island is just horribly ignorant) as late as the 1940s. There's a couple of deeply problematic lyrics in some filmed G&S productions of the time.
I heard these accusations when I first started looking into Marx. I looked into them, and found the racism/antisemitism charges to be pretty weak. The only piece I've ever seen that tries to justify "racism" is his letter to Engels about Lassalle, in which he mocks Lassalle's "racial science" views by sarcastically applying them to him. A translation of this letter uses the N word, but the N word of course doesn't exist in German. I can't find the original German version of this letter. He was also very much pro-abolitionist and supported the cause of abolition during the US Civil War. Also, as others have noted, his pamphlet "On the Jewish Question" in context criticizes Judaism, but isn't particularly antisemitic, and Marx was Jewish of course on top of that. I suspect the accusations have been pushed as an op to try to dissuade certain groups from reading and adopting Marx's ideas.
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Even in the UK, the N word wasn't considered problematic or derogatory in the same way as the US (though of course it was and TERF island is just horribly ignorant) as late as the 1940s. There's a couple of deeply problematic lyrics in some filmed G&S productions of the time.
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If it isn't with a hard R and it was written before 1970 it isn't racist
Thank you