On the Jewish Question pioneered Marx's concentrated
analysis of the relationship between political emancipation and human
emancipation, constituting the germination of his theory of ideology. By
examining the specific "Jewish Question," Marx grasped the essence of
the modern state and its relationship with civil society, thereby gaining insight
into the universal condition of religion in the modern world. Marx's critique
of religion provided the crucial theoretical prerequisite for the founding of
his theory of ideology. The ideas from the critique of religion in the text of
On the Jewish Question, further developed through The German Ideology, were
finally perfected into a mature theory of ideology critique in texts such as
the Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. This
theoretical path, evolving from the critique of religion to the critique of
ideology, ultimately points toward the fundamental goal of achieving human
emancipation.
