Marx’s class analysis excluded political questions and thereby the Jewish question

Evidence

Marx, it is true, in his later years never wrote or uttered an opinion on the Jewish question; but this is hardly due to any fundamental change of mind. His exclusive preoccupation with class struggle as a phenomenon inside society, with the problems of capitalist production in which Jews were not involved as either buyers or sellers of labor, and his utter neglect of political questions, automatically prevented his further inspection of the state structure, and thereby of the role of the Jews. The strong influence of Marxism on the labor movement in Germany is among the chief reasons why German revolutionary movements showed so few signs of anti-Jewish sentiment. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 137

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Institut subordinated Jewish identity and anti-Semitism to social class analysis — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 162