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It is virtually forgotten among Jewish and non-Jewish leftists today, but Karl Marx made his hostility to Judaism clear five years before he cowrote The Communist Manifesto. As Antisemitism, History and Myth shows, in 1843, the Hegelian philosopher Bruno Bauer published a book entitled The Jewish Question, in which he considered whether it was possible for a Jew to be a citizen of a modern state of the kind that the left envisioned: “The question is whether the Jew as such,” Bauer wrote, “that is, the Jew who realizes that he is forced by his true nature to live in eternal separation from others — is able to receive general human rights and grant them to others.” This was the same question that had so vexed the French revolutionaries half a century before.
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