wat0n wrote:
Saying "Jews follow the religion of hucksterism" is not prejudiced at all, heh? This is unironically what happens to your brain when you get into the Marxian dogma.
Another lefty meme I recall is that "silence is violence". Maybe their silence when it comes to the Prophet Marx should be interpreted in the same light?
Granted, it doesn't *sound* that good, by our contemporary standards of phrasing regarding social minority groups like Jews, but I still don't see any *antagonism*, much less prejudice or hatred towards Jews, from the writing.
I think the description follows the *empirical situation* that Jews were put into, socially, as a result of the real-world discrimination that they've faced -- historically Jews have been in finance-related occupations, and have been *demonized* according to that niche of the professions. Also, many have been in the lumpenproletariat due to their lessened social status and outright oppression against them.
*You're* the one making inaccurate characterizations, of Marxism, in attempting to equate it to religious belief, when it's actually based on *empirical reality*, and observations of such, as with the quote you provided about the historical professional role of Jews in society.
We could say that 'hucksterism' is *unkind*, at worst, but it's also empirically *accurate*, in the sense of 'petty financial dealings' -- the tone of it aside.