Marx construindo o marxismo MARX BUILDING MARXISM: notes on About the Jewish question

Abstract

Marx was not born a Marxist, just as Christ was not born a Christian. Published in the Franco-Prussian Annals, an organ of the young Hegelians exiled in Paris, On the Jewish question is one of the transitional writings in Marx’s intellectual formation and, therefore, a fundamental work in the construction and development of historical materialism or, if we wish , of Marxism. It is, therefore, one of the works that paved the way for the emergence of Marxism itself, so to speak, at the same time that it is already a Marxist work, insofar as Marx’s method is not a construct that it is ready, immediately, but the result of a process – as, indeed, is the case with Christianity itself. Paving the way is already, in a way, walking it. Christ’s Judaism was the necessary path to Christianity, just as without the young Marx there would be no Marxism.