As I was checking my answering machine the other day, I heard the message from an old friend with a background in finance who said quietly - and here I quote from memory:
"Miss Ingrid, I have finally figured it out why the Jews hate the Germans so much. Hitler was the only man who succeeded in freeing his people from the yoke of the international money cartel. He did what no man has done in some 2,000 years - he freed his people from usury."
Now let's assume that Adolf Hitler, having figured out what plagued his people and his times, had somewhere said or written the following:
Let us look at the real Jew of our time; not the Jew of the Sabbath . . . but the Jew of everyday life.
What is the Jew's foundation in our world? Material necessity, private advantage.
What is the object of the Jew's workship in this world? Usury. What is his worldly god? Money.
Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.
The organization of society so as to abolish the precondition of usury, and hence its possibility, would render the Jew impossible. His religious conviction would dissolve like a stale miasma under the pressure of the real life of the community. On the other hand, should the Jew recognize his materialistic nature as valueless and work for its abolition, he would be working for simple human emancipation and the shedding of his development to date, thus rejecting the highest practical expression of human self-alienation.
Thus we recognize in Judaism generally an anti-social element which has reached its present strength through a historical development in which the Jews eagerly collaborated. Jewish emancipation means, ultimately, the emancipation of humanity from Judaism.
The Jew has already emancipated himself in the Jewish way: "The Jew, who is, for example, merely tolerated in Vienna determines by his money power the fate of the entire German empire. The Jew, who is without rights in the smallest German state, decides the fate of Europe..." (...)
This is no isolated fact. The Jew has emancipated himself in the Jewish fashion not only by acquiring money power but through money's having become (with him or without him) the world power and the Jewish spirit's having become the practical spirit of the Christian peoples. The Jews have emancipated themselves to the extent that Christians have become Jews. (...)
What is the essential foundation of the Jewish religion? Practical needs, egotism.
The monotheism of the Jew is therefore actually a polytheism of many needs, and it makes even renunciation the object of divine law. Practical need, egotism, is the underlying principle of bourgeois society and is recognizable as such immediately (when) this society sets up its own political state. The god of practical needs and private interest is money.
Money is the zealous one God of Israel, beside which no other God may stand. Money degrades all the gods of mankind and turns them into commodities. Money is the universal and self-constituted value set upon all things. It has therefore robbed the whole world, of both nature and man, of its original value. Money is the essence of man's life and work, which have become alienated from him. This alien monster rules him and he worships it.
The God of the Jews has become secularized and is now a worldly God. The bill of exchange is the Jew's real God. His God is the illusory bill of exchange. (...)
What is stated as theory in Jewish religion, namely, contempt for theory, art, history and man as an end in himself, is an actual and conscious point of view, held to be virtuous by the man of money. Even the relations between the sexes, between man and woman, become an object of commerce. The woman is auctioned off.
The chimerial nationality of the Jew is the true nationality of the merchant, of the man of money.
The law of the Jew, lacking all solid foundation, is only a religious caricature of morality and of law in general, but it provides the formal rites in which the world of property clothes its transaction. (...)
Christianity is the sublime thought of Judaism. Judaism is the everyday practical application of Christianity. But this application could become universal only after Christianity had been theoretically perfected as the religion of self-alienation of man, from himself and from nature.
Only then could Jewry become universally dominant and turn alienated man and alienated nature into alienable, salable objects, subject to the serfdom of egotistical needs and to usury.
Powerful words of a political seer? Anti-semitic ravings of a lunatic? You be the judge.
Know only this: It wasn't Hitler who described the tribe in such devastating, scathing terms. It was one of their own - Karl Marx, in his little-known treatise "A World Without Jews".
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(Source: "A World Without Jews" by Karl Marx, Copyright 1959 by Philosophical Library Inc., 15 East 40th Street, New York 16, NY USA. Translated from German. )
Thought for the Day:
"Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way; this is not easy. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
(Aristotle)