[Xmca-l] Re: Marx and Der Judenfrage

[David Kellogg]

Thanks, Wolff-Michael (I think Marx's actual name for his pamphlet was "Zur
Judenfrage".

But then why is Heydrich's infamous "Final Solution to the Jewish Question"
called *Endlösung der Judenfrage?*

(My grasp of German grammar is highly tenuous, as you can see!)

David Kellogg
Sangmyung University

New Article:
Han Hee Jeung & David Kellogg (2019): A story without SELF: Vygotsky’s
pedology, Bruner’s constructivism and Halliday’s construalism in
understanding narratives by
Korean children, Language and Education, DOI: 10.1080/09500782.2019.1582663
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/09500782.2019.1582663

Some e-prints available at:
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KHRxrQ4n45t9N2ZHZhQK/full?target=10.1080/09500782.2019.1582663



On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 8:37 AM Wolff-Michael Roth <
wolffmichael.roth@gmail.com> wrote:

> Perhaps a bit  picky, but it is "die Judenfrage," for Frage (question) is
> a feminine noun. Michael
>
> On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 3:04 PM David Kellogg <dkellogg60@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am ploughing through an enormous tome by Yuri Slezkine, called "The
>> House of Government". Slezkine sets out to give us a kind of historical
>> ethnography of Soviet times in the form of an autobiography of "the
>> Swamp"--an area of Moscow across the river from the Kremlin. To his credit,
>> he soon realizes that when you do this, you cannot have a "bricks and
>> mortar" model of context (what Ruqaiya Hasan called 'material situational
>> settings'); you need to understand context as the relevant settings for
>> text. So then he decides that the context is really Marxism (already a very
>> debatable proposition) and that the context of Marxism is really--religion.
>>
>> In Russia, it's an idea whose time--or at least whose sell-by date--has
>> come: all of Soviet history is now being re-evaluated by Russians in highly
>> religious terms. But how to repackage this idea in America? It turns out
>> that Slezkine's model of Marxism is based on Marx's work on the "Jewish
>> Question", probably the most vociferously decontextualized thing poor Marx
>> ever wrote (it is invariably cited in discussions which 'prove' that Marx
>> was anti-semitic). It also turns out that Slezkine's model of Judaism has
>> an uncanny resemblance to the work of Amy Chua on "model minorities" like
>> Chinese-Americans and Mormons; Slezkine thinks that Jews are
>> a "Mercurial" people, who thrive on going to places in the economy where
>> angels and "Apollonian" gentiles dare not tread.
>>
>> Slezkine is not an idiot; he's just a very repetitious, redundant, and
>> wordy writer (caveat emptor until the paperback comes out!). But my reading
>> of "Marx and Der Judenfrage" is very different. First of all, I took it for
>> granted that Marx is writing as a Jew himself--as someone who would, like
>> Mendelsohn, have been recognized as part of the "self-emancipated" Jewry
>> (the Jews who had sought franchise by renouncing religion). Secondly, I
>> thought that Marx is really making the same argument that Andy made. It is
>> one of the cardinal and most overlooked  points of the Quranic revelation:
>> in religion, and matters of philosophy quite generally, compulsion (and
>> French style state atheism) is quite beside the point. But maybe I am an
>> idiot. (If so, the least I can do is to try to avoid repetition,
>> redundancy, and ...)
>>
>> David Kellogg
>> Sangmyung University
>>
>> New Article:
>> Han Hee Jeung & David Kellogg (2019): A story without SELF: Vygotsky’s
>> pedology, Bruner’s constructivism and Halliday’s construalism in
>> understanding narratives by
>> Korean children, Language and Education, DOI:
>> 10.1080/09500782.2019.1582663
>> To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/09500782.2019.1582663
>>
>> Some e-prints available at:
>>
>> https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KHRxrQ4n45t9N2ZHZhQK/full?target=10.1080/09500782.2019.1582663
>>
>>
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