Marxism is Anti-Semitism is Marxism
Reviewing Paul Johnson’s A History of the Jews, one idea at a time
The depth of this history was too much for me to write one review that did it justice, so I decided to discuss several ideas it sparked for me, one at a time.
Take all of the negative stereotypes about Jews, especially those around usury and money, and compare them to the negative stereotypes attributed to greedy capitalists. See any similarities? Well of course you do. That’s because they are the same stereotype. What Karl Marx does is simply turn his hatred of Jews into a theology disguised as economics which pits Jews as the source of all evil in the world. He called it communism.
This is why so many progressives, leftists, and protestors are heavily on the side of anyone opposite Jews. This is why you will hear people shouting things like “decolonization”. This is why university presidents cannot even bring themselves to condemn the calls of their students for Jewish genocide. It is also why I saw all of the suggested book displays at Powell’s City of Books just days after the attacks on October 7th, suggest books on anti-colonialism, but nothing on anti-semitism.
The Marxist assumptions about the nature of the world have become the water in which our university intellectuals swim.
