Marxs political Vs Human emancipation
Marx asserts that expecting political to lead to human emancipation is to confuse two types of terms. ... " The Jew can gain political emancipation and political rights, but as long as he defines himself as a Jew he is, by definition, set apart from the State and set apart from all non-Jews. ... "You Jews are egoists if you demand a special emancipation for yourselves as Jews. As Germans, you ought to work for the political emancipation of Germany, and as humans, you ought to work for the emancipation of mankind. ... The point of contention then is not political, but religious. In couching his political demands in terms of religious preference, the Jew is confusing two mutually exclusive states; the Jew is casting himself in opposition to the State through his religion, yet demanding extra- religious privileges as a specifically Jewish citizen of that State. ... "So long as the State is Christian and the Jew is Jewish, the one is as incapable of granting emancipation as the other is of receiving it.