I'd expected Goad's piece on Marx's bigotry to be another "progressives are the real racists" argument. http://takimag.com/article/was_karl_marx_a_dirty_filthy_rotten_bigot_jim_goad#axzz33Ubpxwez … Not entirely.
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The first citation, on "the Jewish nigger [Ferdinand] Lassalle" (in an 1862 letter to Engels) is quite fascinating. The slur isn't the point
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It's quite clear from this passage that Marx saw bio-genealogical inference as perfectly normal, and indeed part of elementary common sense.
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