(Your Voice in a World where Zionism, Steel, and Fire have
turned Justice Mute)

Naji Alloush

Marxism and the Jewish Question

Translated from the Arabic by Muhammad Abu Nasr

Preface

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In the political realm today and for great sections of humanity, Marxism-Leninism represents the ideology of national and class revolution. That is to say, the ideology both of the national and of the proletarian socialist revolution. In the realm of the social sciences, Marxism-Leninism represents the dialectical approach in research and analysis. Marxism, therefore, is against "Judaism" politically and against it ideologically because "Judaism" is against science and liberation. Marxism is the ideology of progress and change. Judaism is the ideology of stasis and petrification.

For just this reason Marxism collided with Judaism from the very beginning. Marx wrote his study On the Jewish Question in the year 1844, that is, four years before the publication of the Communist Manifesto. Marx's work was but the first skirmish with Zionism, since his successors went on to strike out hard at Zionism, the Judaism of the age of imperialism, and they left no "Jewish" activity out of their line of fire.

This study will take on the task of examining the various battles that Marxism waged against "Judaism." In the course of that, we will point out the stages through which Marxist political thought passed as it took positions on "the Jewish question."

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