Sorry to report Marx unironically did have some troubling antisemetic takes. They never got baked into any of his best works, like Capital, but I'm reading some of his young-hegelian era shit and shortly thereafter I believe he goes on at some length re: the jewish question
What you're thinking of is the thing he wrote titled, "On The Jewish Question" which sounds really bad out of context. It's titled that because he was responding to (and disagreeing with), another thing titled, "The Jewish Question"
As far as other possibly anti-semitic stuff he may have been involved in throughout his life, I have no idea.
He was indeed disgareeing with and responding to worse and largely right wing takes in that essay. Still, I'm afraid the way he's being summarized here is revisionist if you read what he actually wrote. I found it in the Marx Engels Reader ("on the jewish question," as correctly pointed out above). It's very mild antisemtism, especially contrasted against the right wing takes he was responding to, but it's still there.
Destruction of ethnic groups sounds more like fascism to me.
The notion that Marxists want to destroy Jews is a new one to me. I thought fascists like to conflate communists and Jews, e.g. "Judeo-Bolshevism".
Also East Asians considering the largest East Asian country is literally Communist. Sometimes I wonder if they actually believe this shit
Sorry to report Marx unironically did have some troubling antisemetic takes. They never got baked into any of his best works, like Capital, but I'm reading some of his young-hegelian era shit and shortly thereafter I believe he goes on at some length re: the jewish question
Tldr Marx is cancelled
Someone once told me that Marx's antisemitism was misconstrued, and that he was actually debunking antisemitism. Is there any truth to that?
What you're thinking of is the thing he wrote titled, "On The Jewish Question" which sounds really bad out of context. It's titled that because he was responding to (and disagreeing with), another thing titled, "The Jewish Question"
As far as other possibly anti-semitic stuff he may have been involved in throughout his life, I have no idea.
He was indeed disgareeing with and responding to worse and largely right wing takes in that essay. Still, I'm afraid the way he's being summarized here is revisionist if you read what he actually wrote. I found it in the Marx Engels Reader ("on the jewish question," as correctly pointed out above). It's very mild antisemtism, especially contrasted against the right wing takes he was responding to, but it's still there.