Why did Marx offhandedly call people niggers in his letters?

Why did Marx offhandedly call people niggers in his letters?

>The Jewish nigger Lassalle who, I’m glad to say, is leaving at the end of this week, has happily lost another 5,000 talers in an ill-judged speculation. The chap would sooner throw money down the drain than lend it to a ‘friend’, even though his interest and capital were guaranteed.
>It is now quite plain to me — as the shape of his head and the way his hair grows also testify — that he is descended from the negroes who accompanied Moses’ flight from Egypt (unless his mother or paternal grandmother interbred with a nigger). Now, this blend of Jewishness and Germanness, on the one hand, and basic negroid stock, on the other, must inevitably give rise to a peculiar product. The fellow’s importunity is also nigger-like.
>One of our nigger’s great discoveries — which, however, he only confides to his ‘closest friends’ — is that the Pelasgians were of Semitic descent. The main evidence: in the Book of Maccabbees, the Jews send emissaries to solicit the help of Greece on grounds of kinship. Furthermore, an Etruscan inscription has been found in Perugia, and this was simultaneously deciphered by Hofrat Stucker in Berlin and an Italian, and both independently converted the Etruscan into the Hebrew alphabet.
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This is basically the verbose-ridden equivalent of a Holla Forums post; using nigger as a generic insult for anyone (Lassalle wasn't black) while not actually being racist/discriminatory when talking seriously about race or other identity categories (recall Jewish Question, letters to Lincoln, What is a Negro Slave?, etc.).

Was Marx the original shitposter?

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Wasn't this common back in the day? Authors like Mark Twain did the same thing despite being against slavery and racism.

This is fucking savage tho holy shit.

He was called "Moor" in college. Like all bullied kids he got revenge in adulthood.

Marx just didn't care about political correctness.

They used to call the Irish white niggers

Nigger, we offhandedly call people niggers.

marx was bad ass

There's also a book called White Niggers about Quebecois

Damn marx is so fucking based.

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He probably meant it without the hard R. He was basically the first ganster rapper.

This is translated from German, right? He'd be saying "Neger". Can you even drop a non-hard R Neger in German?

If he was saying neger then "nigger" is a mistranslation. It should say negro.

He said "Der jüdische Nigger" in the original document. Anyway, the racism becomes obvious from the subsequent sentences.

But back then there was scientific evidence that supported racism which only got disproved in recent decades so i wouldn't hold it too badly against him.

Fucking revisionist.

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Calling someone nigger in the 19th century was like calling someone a retard today. Crude, but few people would bat an eye if done in private and some have no problem doing it in public.

you must have accidentally responded to the wrong post because what you said makes no sense.

I call people retards all the time and no one tries shit, llittle downies won't do shit

don't see the problem, considering everyone here's called someone a nigger at some point. besides,
definitely shitposting

He was ironically shitposting.

I mean, liberals had to explain inequality in their FREE AND EQUAL tm societies somehow

i still have no idea what you are saying.

According to Hobsbawm, 'scientific racism' was readily adopted in fin-de-siecle liberal circles in Europe, since it explained and justified domination of certain groups of people over others despite the ostensibly liberal and equalistic ideology.

*egalitarian
equalistic isn't a word

ok, so you think Marx was racist because he wanted to rule over niggers?

No he was racist because racialism was the dominant scientific position at that tile but that racialism itself was the result of a need to justify inequalities in a supposedly equal society. Something Marx himself didn't think of and couldn't think of because like mos people of his time, he probably thought that hard science and biology are objective and safe from political manipulation .

at that time*
safe from political bias* is better formulation after thinking about it.

oh, that makes sense.

wow I hate Marx now, fuggin brocialist
#notmycomrade

I didn't think it was possible…

And Holla Forumslacks say our ideology is politically correct.

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Lol

More like forcibly silenced.

Do you have a single shred of evidence to support this wacky theory?

Yes. It's widely known that the black slaves and irish/British servants in early America would regularly unite and attempt to overthrow the property owners, so racialism was enshrined into law and the Irish/whites were given muh privilege over the negroes, essentially pitting them against each other. This was justified scientifically after the fact

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There, I'm sparing you Xth inforgraphic war.

NAZI GET OUT

He was a fascist

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This one would be better if it just focused on Bakunin's total failure rather than the "successes" of Marxism-Leninism.

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Cubas still here mate

Also

Does anyone have that wiki article of a feminist who got kicked out of socialist convention Marx was attending?

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And it is a fucking failire whith a capitalist economy


Cant hear over thousands of worker coops, mutual banks and horizontal illegalist movements all over the world

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wtf i like capitalism now

Kill yourself

Profit is when the bourgeoisie keeps the surplus value of the workers using the state and private property as an excuse to do so, there is no bourgeoisie in worker cooperatives, unless you consider taxation a form of surplus value being kept by the bourgeosie, in which case you are by default an a anarchist

Capitalism can be centrally planned, as proved by lenin and friends, this argument holds no ground

Fighting maoists and leninists dont abolish for profit production

Keep sperging marxshit

where were you friend? haven't seen you in days. we thought you were dead.

Ive been posting everyday

also

How does it feel to be retarded?

In the 19th century, "nigger" lacked the negative connotation it has now. It wasn't a demeaning work.

that pic is a bigger autistic meltdown than Marx ever had holy shit

lol

We should be so lucky.

This
I can't tell if an-nil is posting this unironically, and thinks this is good for him.

well, you could at least try troo

Now this is the serious discussion I come to leftypol for!

Wow it's almost as if the social mores that exist today didn't exist 150 years ago.

then why is marx using it in a demeaning way

wtf marx was a brocialist! not my comrade

I'm kidding, just in case poe's law gets me banned

Because the man lived in the 19th century, didn't give a fuck about political correctness (pc didn't even existed at the time) and was just all about dah workers n' stuff.

Marx was truly /ourguy/.

Because political correctness is bullshit

The worst part is the absolutely awful grammar and spelling errors. You can interpret him in five different flavors of autism every time.

Yes
Since the 1990s "Neger" has changed its meaning to equal nigger
It wasnt really considered an insult before

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Kikes gon kike.

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Would be funnier with Engels

Except he starts going into the dangers of miscegenation Holla Forums style/

Well if I'm at a kkk rally it's I guess a little better for them to be talking about the problem with "the blacks" than to be talking about the problem with "the niggers"

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which part? the existence of race or the inferiority of different races, or both? genuinely curious, if you have some links from sci-hub id love to see them.

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Have you read his response to Max Stirner? It's the gorilla warfare of his time.

I remember mentioning this on reddit when tankies were saying that anarchism is inherently anti‐semitic because of Bakunin and Proudhon

Funny how willing identity politicians are to count slurs and phrenological appeals when they advocate ostracizing for Holocausts

lots of links in:

m*cro aggressions

Marx was nigger Jew too

Same reason I call my friends "hook-nosed shylock kikes", it's just banter!

Marx was helping to reclaim the word way back then.

marx confirmed kang

So is North Korea.

Would be accurate with Engels (he's still based though).