The Socialism of Fools
Author : Michael Lerner
Publisher : Institute for Labor & Mental Health
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 33,15 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Michael Lerner
Publisher : Institute for Labor & Mental Health
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 33,15 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Seymour Martin Lipset
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 12,98 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Antisemitism
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Author : Seymour Martin Lipset
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Antisemitism
ISBN :
Author : Michele Battini
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 32,29 MB
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0231541325
In Socialism of Fools, Michele Battini focuses on the critical moment during the Enlightenment in which anti-Jewish stereotypes morphed into a sophisticated, modern social anti-Semitism. He recovers the potent anti-Jewish, anticapitalist propaganda that cemented the idea of a Jewish conspiracy in the European mind and connects it to the atrocities that characterized the Jewish experience in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Beginning in the eighteenth century, counter-Enlightenment intellectuals and intransigent Catholic writers singled out Jews for conspiring to exploit self-sustaining markets and the liberal state. These ideas spread among socialist and labor movements in the nineteenth century and intensified during the Long Depression of the 1870s. Anti-Jewish anticapitalism then migrated to the Habsburg Empire with the Christian Social Party; to Germany with the Anti-Semitic Leagues; to France with the nationalist movements; and to Italy, where Revolutionary Syndicalists made anti-Jewish anticapitalism the basis of an alliance with the nationalists. Exemplified best in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the infamous document that "leaked" Jewish plans to conquer the world, the Jewish-conspiracy myth inverts reality and creates a perverse relationship to historical and judicial truth. Isolating the intellectual roots of this phenomenon and its contemporary resonances, Battini shows us why, so many decades after the Holocaust, Jewish people continue to be a powerful political target.
Author : Seymour Martin Lipset
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 35,69 MB
Release : 1969
Category :
ISBN :
Author : William Brustein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 33,11 MB
Release : 2015-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0521870852
This study examines fully the role that the historic European left has played in developing and espousing anti-Semitic views.
Author : Steve Cohen
Publisher :
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 37,11 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN : 1916235727
Author : Robert S. Wistrich
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 31,69 MB
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080324083X
From Ambivalence to Betrayal is the first study to explore the transformation in attitudes on the Left toward the Jews, Zionism, and Israel since the origins of European socialism in the 1840s until the present. This pathbreaking synthesis reveals a striking continuity in negative stereotypes of Jews, contempt for Judaism, and negation of Jewish national self-determination from the days of Karl Marx to the current left-wing intellectual assault on Israel. World-renowned expert on the history of antisemitism Robert S. Wistrich provides not only a powerful analysis of how and why the Left emerged as a spearhead of anti-Israel sentiment but also new insights into the wider involvement of Jews in radical movements. There are fascinating portraits of Marx, Moses Hess, Bernard Lazare, Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, and other Jewish intellectuals, alongside analyses of the darker face of socialist and Communist antisemitism. The closing section eloquently exposes the degeneration of leftist anti-Zionist critiques into a novel form of “anti-racist” racism.
Author : Stephen H. Norwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 20,57 MB
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1107276837
Stephen H. Norwood has written the first systematic study of the American far left's role in both propagating and combating antisemitism. This book covers Communists from 1920 onward, Trotskyists, the New Left and its black nationalist allies, and the contemporary remnants of the New Left. Professor Norwood analyzes the deficiencies of the American far left's explanations of Nazism and the Holocaust. He explores far left approaches to militant Islam, from condemnation of its fierce antisemitism in the 1930s to recent apologies for jihad. Norwood discusses the far left's use of long-standing theological and economic antisemitic stereotypes that the far right also embraced. The study analyzes the far left's antipathy to Jewish culture, as well as its occasional efforts to promote it. He considers how early Marxist and Bolshevik paradigms continued to shape American far left views of Jewish identity, Zionism, Israel, and antisemitism.
Author : Keith Kahn-harris
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 26,64 MB
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1912248441
Keith Kahn-Harris argues that the controversy over antisemitism today is a symptom of a growing "selectivity" in anti-racism caused by a failure to engage with the challenges that diverse societies pose. How did antisemitism get so strange? How did hate become so clouded in controversy? And what does the strange hate of antisemitism tell us about racism and the politics of diversity today? Life-long anti-racists accused of antisemitism, life-long Jew haters declaring their love of Israel... Today, antisemitism has become selective. Non-Jews celebrate the "good Jews" and reject the "bad Jews". And its not just antisemitism that's becoming selective, racists and anti-racists alike are starting to choose the minorities they love and hate. In this passionate yet closely-argued polemic from a writer with an intimate knowledge of the antisemitism controversy, Keith Kahn-Harris argues that the emergence of strange hatreds shows how far we are from understanding what living in diverse societies really means. Strange Hate calls for us to abandon selective anti-racism and rethink how we view not just Jews and antisemitism, but the challenge of living with diversity.