Karl Marx, the founder of the communism, was
a Jew.

And as Jewish Encyclopedia... describes, Jews have been
prominent in
the modern socialist movement, and the teachings of Marx had a
”Talmudic Bent”: ”Jews have been prominently identified
with the modern Socialist movement from its very inception.




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The spread of the
socialistic faith among the German colony atParis was therefore
bound to convert Jew and Gentile alike. Two ofthose early Jewish
converts, Karl Marx and Ferdinand Lassalle, were tobecome commanding
figures in the history of socialism: one as thefather of scientific
socialism, the other as the founder of the GermanSocialist party.
Marx, the son of a Jewish lawyer of Treves, numberedamong his
ancestors many famous rabbis. The chapters on the theory ofvalue
in his principal work, "Das Kapital," suggest by their subtleanalysis
an inherited Talmudical bent, though his own education wasuninfluenced
by Jewish studies, the family having been converted to theLutheran
Church
during his early childhood.



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While in
Germany socialism has attracted individual Jews, in Russia it has
become a movement of the Jewish masses. ”



(Jewish
Encyclopedia, 1905, article: 'Socialism', p. 418-419.)