Karl Marx wrote in 'On the Jewish Question' that money is the jealous god of Israel.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
The claim is accurate: the phrase 'Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist' appears verbatim in Marx's 'On the Jewish Question' (1844), as shown in the Marxists Internet Archive full text and multiple secondary quotations. The post's passage paraphrases the same sentence, so the claim is a faithful extraction.
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… Of course, he's talking about the Talmud. "Practical need, egoism, is the principle of civil society, and as such appears in pure form as soon as civil society has fully given birth to the political state. Money is a jealous god of Israel, a faith which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man, turning them into commodities. Money is a universal, self-established value of all things. It has therefore robbed the whole world, both the world of men and nature, of its specific value. …
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Supports. The Marxists Internet Archive full text of 'On The Jewish Question' contains the sentence 'Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist.'[2]
Supports. Reason.com quotes the same passage from Marx's 1844 essay 'On the Jewish Question' and attributes it to Marx.[1]
Supports. Wikipedia and The Spectator both quote the phrase 'Money is the jealous god of Israel' from Marx's essay, and Wikipedia notes it as a passage debated by commentators.[3][4]
Supports. Additional quotations of the essay (Laitman, Hudson Institute, Paul Johnson's Commentary article) reproduce the same sentence, confirming the wording is consistent across editions.[5][6][7]
Context. The sentence is part of Marx's critique of 'the worldly religion of the Jew' and is often read by scholars as a critique of liberal rights and capitalism rather than of Judaism itself, but this interpretive dispute does not affect whether Marx wrote the sentence.[3]
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- 1Far-Left Support for Hamas is not an Aberration - Reason.comreason.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 2On The Jewish Question by Karl Marx - Marxists Internet Archivemarxists.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 3On the Jewish Question - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 4Karl Marx's sinister legacy of anti-Semitism | The Spectatorspectator.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5Karl Marx On The Jewslaitman.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6Understanding China’s Antisemitism | Hudson Institutehudson.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 7Marxism versus the Jews : Paul Johnson : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archivearchive.org · not rated · cited for: supports
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