Similarly, Paul Johnson presents more cases. In a derogatory fashion he referred to the father and son as “Jew Bamberger” or “little Jew Bamberger.” Spielmann, whose name appears frequently in the correspondence between Marx and Engels was mentioned as “Jew Spielmann.” When on holiday in Ramsgate in 1879, Marx wrote to Engels that the resort contained “many Jews and fleas.” He borrowed money from the Bambergers but showed contempt for them.

In an essay published in The Philosophers magazine, Michael Ezra offers several examples of Marx’s anti-Semitism. By the time he reached adulthood he was a consummate self-hating Jew. Descended from a long line of rabbis on both his mother´s and father´s side, Karl Marx was born in an environment of self-denial. Karl Marx’s father was a Jewish lawyer converted into a Lutheran who baptized his son as a child.

The father of Ferdinand Lasalle, founder of German socialism, was a silk merchant the father of Otto Bauer, leader of Austrian socialism, was a textile tycoon the father of Adolf Braun, a leader of German socialism, was an industrialist the father of Paul Singer, another important German socialist, was a clothing manufacturer the father of Victor Adler, a pioneer of social democracy in Austria, was a real estate speculator Karl Hochberg, a socialist-reformist writer, was the son of a banker in Frankfurt. When they went radical, they turned their backs to their lineage and, more often than not, to the religion of their ancestors. As Paul Johnson pointed out in The History of the Jews, many prominent nineteenth-century socialist Jews hailed from wealthy families.

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