Marx and Emancipation

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Marx's ideas on politics, the state and rights have a great deal to do with emancipation. There are two main points of this emancipation, and he goes through a great deal to make a distinction between them. Human emancipation and political emancipation. He makes comments on the efforts put forth by groups such as the Jews or the society as a whole. However he believes this is limited and that it has negative and counterproductive issues. One of Marx's pieces on emancipation is his writing on the Jews called “On The Jewish Question.” This piece looks into the differences between the two forms, human and political. Political emancipation is important to the Jews because they argue they deserve freedom in the state. Bruno Bauer however believes that Jews should not be given emancipation as Jews, as long as the state is Christian. This raises the question of true political emancipation because true political emancipation does not have religion incorporated. In other words religion ought to be abolished in order for true political emancipation to exist. The citizen requiring emancipation in the political sense would have to lead a double life and that life of a Jew is forbidden according to their way of life so therefore it is impossible for a Jew to be emancipated as a Jew. As a Christian, one would go to work in the political scene as a non-religious, and holding back morales in order to be totally emancipated. However once that person returns to his private life, they would return to their true personality. Marx sees this and understands that the identity split would limit political emancipation. It in turn points religion from state to society in general. Marx argues that not only religion, but certain prejudices such as race, and class was needed to be removed from the political society. However again it is limited. Pursued for its own sake, it's pernicious

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