Jewish Question/karl Marx

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    “Freedom is slavery some poets tell us.
    Enslave yourself to the right leader’s truth,
    Christ’s or Karl Marx’, and it will set you free.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “I think the Messianic concept, which is the Jewish offering to mankind, is a great victory. What does it mean? It means that history has a sense, a meaning, a direction; it goes somewhere, and necessarily in a good direction—the Messiah.”
    —Elie Wiesel (b. 1928)

    “Even in ordinary speech we call a person unreasonable whose outlook is narrow, who is conscious of one thing only at a time, and who is consequently the prey of his own caprice, whilst we describe a person as reasonable whose outlook is comprehensive, who is capable of looking at more than one side of a question and of grasping a number of details as parts of a whole.”
    —G. Dawes Hicks (1862–1941)

    “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
    —Karl Marx (1818–1883)