Hannah Arendt Summary

In an attempt to compare Karl Marx and Hannah Arendt’s critiques of the rights of man as expressed in “On the Jewish Question” and “The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man,” in H. Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, considering their main arguments is inevitable. This article argues that both Karl Marx and Hannah Arendt’s critiques of the rights of man, for the most part, overlap and came from the same origin. The formulation of the question is of highly important for Marx. In view of the fact that, “to formulate a question is to resolve it," In response to his friend- Bruno Bauer- “in the Jews question” Marx criticizes, his friend’s formulation of the Jews question, and by reconstructing the problem in different

Treaties and even the right to asylum as a mechanism of protection could be considered as effective and democratic way of assimilating people into a nation-state. Minorities will be protected in order to be assimilated into a broader identity, if treaties couldn’t reach this important target, so nation-state has the right to take whatsoever necessary actions to get rid of this problem.In other words, citizenship can be seen as a reward of this assimilation, a reward which can be taken away when you are not what have been expected to be. This has another implication that the nation-state is not against individual to have a different nationality, but it simply does not recognise people without nationality; this is because the very existence of nation-state depends on the tension between nationalities. Establishment of a nation-state for stateless people as a solution for their emancipation is a realisation of this situation. In another world, people who thrown outside the nation-state, in order to gain the rights of man, they should create their own political body. In a Marxian language, they need to emancipate themselves politically, through the nation-state as an