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A History of Revolution

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Marxism and Antisemitism

Enzo Borsuk: The Jewish question revealed classical Marxism's blindness to other forms of domination, such as national race and gender oppression. He says the left-wing Jews who embraced it were rejected by nationalism which was anti-Semitic. And so they no longer depicted themselves as Jews in a national or religious meaning of the world," he says. "Marxism represented a real blind spot with respect to Jewish identity"

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