re Patrick's 6472 >The reference to "Moses and the Prophets" is most definitely not >intended to be anti-Semitic. Technically, it is a reference to a >society's most fundamental law. So, the fundamental "law" of >capitalism is accumulation. It is not an identification of >money-making with Judaism. "Moses and the Prophets" is equally a >Christian and a Jewish reference. I agree here especially since it is the industrial capitalist who here is the focus of Marx's critique, not putatively purely money making financial and commercial capitalists on whom anti Semites had focused to the exclusion of industrial capital. The industrial capitalist would be later depicted as heroic, productive Aryan capital as opposed to parasitic Jewish financial and commerical capital. I think it Hal Draper who has shown how Marx moved quite quickly from his conflation in the Bauer critique of money making activities and putatively Jewish forms of capital to a critique of industrial capital in terms of the alienation of labor in the 1844 mss. rb
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