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Marx's anti-Semitism was intertwined with racism. One one occasion when fellow socialist Ferdinand Lassalle (who regularly loaned Marx money) refused him a loan, Marx complained to Engels:

Marx's anti-Semitism was intertwined with racism. One one occasion when fellow socialist Ferdinand Lassalle (who regularly loaned Marx money) refused him a loan, Marx complained to Engels:

{{cquote|The Jewish nigger Lassalle... would sooner throw money down the drain than lend it to a ‘friend’, even though his interest and capital were guaranteed.... It is now quite plain to me&mdash;as the shape of his head and the way his hair grows also testify&mdash;that he is descended from the negroes who accompanied Moses’ flight from Egypt (unless his mother or paternal grandmother interbred with a nigger).... The fellow’s importunity is also nigger-like.<ref>[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1862/letters/62_07_30a.htm Marx To Engels], July 30, 1862, in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ''[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/ Collected Works],'' Volume 41 (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975), p. 388</ref>}}

{{cquote|The Jewish nigger Lassalle... would sooner throw money down the drain than lend it to a ‘friend’, even though his interest and capital were guaranteed.... It is now quite plain to me&mdash;as the shape of his head and the way his hair grows also testify&mdash;that he is descended from the negroes who accompanied Moses’ flight from Egypt (unless his mother or paternal grandmother interbred with a nigger).... The fellow’s importunity is also nigger-like.<ref>[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1862/letters/62_07_30a.htm Marx To Engels], July 30, 1862, in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ''[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/ Collected Works],'' Volume 41 (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975), p. 388</ref>}}

Marx called Lassalle a "kinky-haired Nigger-Jew" (''kraushaariger Nigger-Jude'')<ref>Reinhold Aman, "Karl Marx, Maledictor," ''Maledicta: The International Journal of Verbal Aggression'' Vol. 6, No. 1 (1982), p. 31</ref> and continually referred to him as "Isaac," "Baron Isaac," a "little Jew," "Ephraim the clever," "Braun Yid" and "Itzig," names commonly used by anti-Semites of the day. "[T]he exodus of the Jews from Egypt was nothing but... the expulsion of the 'leprous people' from Egypt. At the head of these lepers was an Egyptian priest, Moses," assterted Marx. "Lazarus, the leper, is therefore the prototype of the Jew, and so also of Lazare-Lassalle."<ref>Pierre Birnbaum, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=vSSrAAAAIAAJ Geography of hope: exile, the Enlightenment, disassimilation] (Stanford University Press, 2008) ISBN 0804752931, p. 68</ref>

Marx called Lassalle a "kinky-haired Nigger-Jew" (''kraushaariger Nigger-Jude'')<ref>Reinhold Aman, "Karl Marx, Maledictor," ''Maledicta: The International Journal of Verbal Aggression'' Vol. 6, No. 1 (1982), p. 31</ref> and continually referred to him as "Jew-boy Braun,"<ref>Andrew Valls, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=RokMSK8iOg4C Race and racism in modern philosophy]'' (Cornell University Press, 2005) ISBN 0801472741, p. 243</ref> "Isaac," "Baron Isaac," a "little Jew," "Ephraim the clever," "Braun Yid" and "Itzig," names commonly used by anti-Semites of the day. "[T]he exodus of the Jews from Egypt was nothing but... the expulsion of the 'leprous people' from Egypt. At the head of these lepers was an Egyptian priest, Moses," assterted Marx. "Lazarus, the leper, is therefore the prototype of the Jew, and so also of Lazare-Lassalle."<ref>Pierre Birnbaum, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=vSSrAAAAIAAJ Geography of hope: exile, the Enlightenment, disassimilation] (Stanford University Press, 2008) ISBN 0804752931, p. 68</ref>

Marx's style was shared by his companions: his wife referred to Lassalle "the little Berlin Jew,"<ref>William Otto Henderson, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=a9BvGA43rAQC Marx and Engels and the English workers: and other essays]'' (Psychology Press, 1989) ISBN 0714633348, p. 71</ref> while Engels called him a "greasy Jew."<ref>Paul Johnson, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=VIKGCHT1sbwC A history of the Jews]'' (HarperCollins, 1998) ISBN 0060915331, p. 350</ref>

Marx's style was shared by his companions: his wife referred to Lassalle "the little Berlin Jew,"<ref>William Otto Henderson, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=a9BvGA43rAQC Marx and Engels and the English workers: and other essays]'' (Psychology Press, 1989) ISBN 0714633348, p. 71</ref> while Engels called him a "greasy Jew."<ref>Paul Johnson, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=VIKGCHT1sbwC A history of the Jews]'' (HarperCollins, 1998) ISBN 0060915331, p. 350</ref>