Inspired from youth by Albert Camus' sense of the Absurd, I try to be a voice for REASON in the growing darkness and moral insanity of global capitalism .
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Trump wants Greenland, but residents say it's not for sale [ GREENLAND IS NOT A COMODITY , IS NOT FOR SALE ! ]
In Das Kapital Karl Marx wrote about the tendency of the capitalist system to turn EVERYTHING into a commodity . In his early writing young Marx, a Jew , wrote about the " spirit of the Jew " in connection to the making of " profit ". It seems that the FASCIST-ZIONIST New Regime of Donald Trump and Stephen Miller has abandoned " Old Money ' WASP thinking about wealth accumulation and embraced the spirit of the proverbial " Greedy Jew " . EVERYTHING and EVERYBODY is for sale !
Of course, Marx has also been perceived as a " self -hating Jew " by business class Jews who think that " socialism is anti-Semitic " .
As a longtime independent democratic socialist and a pre-Vatican II type Catholic , I must declare my own opinion : " GREENLAND IS NOT A COMMODITY , IS NOT FOR SALE !
NOTE : Young Karl Marx on the " Spirit of the Jew " . GOOGLE search result :
What did young Karl Marx write about the spirit of the Jew ?
AI Overview
[In his 1844 essay "On the Jewish Question" (Zur Judenfrage), young Karl Marx did not focus on "the spirit of the Jew" as a unique, inherent quality, but rather used the term in a highly critical, polemical and ultimately metaphorical way to describe what he saw as the pervasive "practical Jewish spirit" of the nascent capitalist society. He argued that this spirit was the "worldly cult" of all Christian nations.
Key Points of Marx's Argument
Marx's essay was a response to a contemporary debate about the political emancipation of Jews in Prussia, specifically the work of fellow Young Hegelian Bruno Bauer.
Critique of Bauer: Bauer argued that Jews could only achieve political emancipation if they abandoned their religion, just as Christians needed to abandon the idea of a Christian state for universal secular rights. Marx countered that political emancipation (liberal rights) was incomplete and did not free people from the real constraints of civil society, such as economic inequality and private interest.
Equating Judaism with Commerce: Marx then made a controversial, metaphorical argument by drawing on contemporary stereotypes. He equated the "profane basis" of Judaism with "practical need, self-interest" and "huckstering" (commerce), and the "worldly god" of the Jew with money.
The "Jewish Character" of Society: The core of Marx's argument was not that only Jews were "commercial," but that the egoism and focus on money characteristic of the "practical Jewish spirit" had become the universal, dominant spirit of modern capitalist civil society.
Universal Emancipation: Marx concluded that the "emancipation of the Jews" would ultimately mean the "emancipation of mankind from Judaism"—meaning the emancipation of all people (both Christian and Jew) from the egoism, huckstering, and power of money inherent in a capitalist system.]
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