In a message dated 13/07/2001 03:53:47 GMT Daylight Time, [log in to unmask]
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> << Hamjatta,
>
> You see your own contradictions,you are an internationalist but as far as
> Marx is concern he is a racist.However I will not duel on this,because I
> have dealt with this issue here sometime back proving that it is nothing but
> a big lie to say that Marx is a racist by letting the Man  speak for him
> self,if you want to know more about that you can just visit the achieves. >>
>


Saiks,

Let Marx himself answer you. This is Marx in a letter to Engels speaking of
his contempt of Lassalle:

"As the shape of his head and the texture of his skin suggest, he is
descended from the negroes who joined Moses in his exodus from Egypt (unless
his mother or paternal grand mother were crossed with a nigger). This union
of Jew and German with its negro source was bound to produce a strange
hybrid. The fellow's importunity is also a negro's" Karl Marx, Letter to
Engels of 30th. July 1862, in Works, Vol. 30, pp. 257-9, 1974.

To crown it all, he ended by calling Lassalle a "Jewish nigger". Some
non-racist inclusive internationalist, huh? Worst, Marx at some stage was
opposed to the abolition of slavery in America on the grounds that freeing
blacks from slavery would adversely hinder the progress of working class
white Americans from pre- industrial working class status to industrial
proletarian status without which the violent end he had prophesised for
capitalism would not come to be. Saiks, Marx was not only a racist creep, he
was a sexist as well. I would like to see you refute this. The workers of the
world that Marx had in mind and was calling upon to unite and free themselves
from the shackles of "capitalism" were not blacks, browns, yellows and women;
but exclusively proletarian white males.

All the best,

Hamjatta Kanteh

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