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>>26163
Our lord Marx and his sidekick Engels loved the Christian theology. But really, who gives a shit?

>>26164
Give me a serious analysis of this text.

To me, it is a genius and overlooked text of Marx's.
In the first part, Marx criticises political secularism as often being a motive for an intensified civic theocracy, as in the case of the US. This relates to Marx's reply to Bauer in general; that secularism is not enough, since the content of religion can transform itself in new ways. Such is the case of Judaism and Christianity; the Christian imagines that they have extinguished Judaism, but really, they are "inwardly circumcised" Jews, in the Paulian sense. The absence of the external Jew does not negate the internal Jew, and so on. Further, what is the spectre of Jewishness? To Marx and Bauer, the Jew represents capitalism in the realm of civil society, while the Christian sublimes this relation in the state. The Christian state thus preserves an inner Judaism, or as Marx says, the Christian has become a Jew himself (e.g. a capitalist), but in a more severe form, because he spiritualises it. The honest Jew is better than the dishonest Jew; that's what I interpret.

Im marxist-leninist but Im with Bauer when he said that everyone needs to renounce the religion they belong to, including jews. I mean Marx kind of did that, he never identified himself by his jewish ancestry. Communists are international class-conscious beings. Not some ethnically identifying followers of religion.

>>26193
But Marx's point is that mere renouncement is not enough. The US is a "secular" country, but still very religious. Bauer thinks that Liberalism can end antisemitism by abolishing Judaism, but Marx's point is that only Communism can do that. The two split on the topic of Marx's politics, like so many other Young Hegelians.

>>26193
Yes but it's idealist to think the masses will renounce religion, specially those who live in dire conditions due to capitalksm. Like this anon said >>26197 , economic emancipation will bring true liberty to everyone, and people won't need religion to cope anymore.