• • Judaism, Capitalism, and Marx 
David Gordon, Mises Daily (Ludwig von Mises Institute) Capitalism  |Egoism  |Personal life  | Before turning from Marx on capitalism and the Jews, I allow myself one conjecture. Marx said that the essence of capitalism was egoism. Could awareness of this claim have influenced the young Ayn Rand, who after all grew up in Soviet Russia, where the writings of Marx were abundantly available in Russian translation? I ask because she of course also thought that capitalism was in essence egoism, though she embraced exactly what repelled Marx and ignored his identification of Judaism with capitalism.   Published: 2013-02-12