Marx and Freud are often linked together even though they a…

Marx and Freud are often linked together even though they are really quite different. However, they are similar in the way that they are both influenced by Judaism without talking about it and in the way that they see everything as a covert expression of impersonal forces. It is if they read Kabbalistic mysticism, correctly read it as a kind of trick to ensure that God is always right, and then read everything else along the same lines. For Marx everything is a covert expression of class and for Freud it is our hidden drives. Their own writings are elaborate deceptions to conceal their own covert power. Their attempts to downplay the individual serve to conceal their own individualism, which leaves no room for anybody else. Together they are two of the most important sources for existentialism, which generalizes the method of promoting covert power (both of the individual existentialist and the state) by denying that anybody else really means what they say by reading it all as an expression of impersonal forces.