Left-wing anti-Semitism is anything but a new phenomenon
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100281615/left-wing-anti-semitism-is-anything-but-a-new-phenomenon/“How, as a socialist, can you not be an anti-Semite?†Adolf Hitler asked his party members in 1920. No one thought it an odd question. Anti-Semitism was at that time widely understood to be part of the broader revolutionary movement against markets, property and capital.
The man who coined the term “socialism,†the nineteenth-century French revolutionary, Pierre Leroux, had told his comrades: “When we speak of the Jews, we mean the Jewish spirit – the spirit of profit, of lucre, of gain, of speculation; in a word, the banker’s spirit.â€
The man who popularised the term “anti-Semitism†had taken a similar line. Wilhelm Marr, a radical nineteenth-century German Leftist, may not have been the first person to use the word, but he certainly – and approvingly – brought it to a wide audience: “Anti-Semitism is a Socialist movement,†he pronounced, “only nobler and purer in form than Social Democracyâ€.
Leftist anti-Semitism has been around for centuries. They killed the most Jews, Nazis and Communists.
