Elements of Anti-Semitism

The portrait of the Jews that the nationalists offer to the world is in fact their own self-portrait. They long for total possession and unlimited power, at any price. It is claimed that only the Jews of Eastern Europe have Jewish characteristics, and then only if they have not been fully assimilated. The inflexible adherence to their own order of life has brought the Jews into an uncertain relationship with the dominant order. Bourgeois anti-Semitism has a specific economic reason: the concealment of domination in production. Even in the nineteenth century the Jews remained dependent on an alliance with the central power. The Jews constituted the trauma of the knights of industry who had to pretend to be creative, while the claptrap of anti-Semitism announced a fact for which they secretly despised themselves; their anti-Semitism is self-hatred, the bad conscience of the parasite. The destruction of cemeteries is not a mere excess of anti-Semitism it is anti-Semitism in its essence.

Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Psychology