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> I was using the quote to illustrate that the separation of finance
> from production, and the demonization of finance, serves a similar
> psychological role to what a kind of anti-Semitism does - it becomes
> a repository for social guilt about the evils of capitalism. That is,
> "The Jew" is figured as greedy, cold, conniving, etc. - all features
> of the mindset encouraged by capitalism, but externalized in some
> figure of evil. (I stole this analysis of anti-Semitism from Zizek.)
>
Hm - who got to this first: Zizek or Moishe Postone? I read an excellent
analysis of anti-Semitism along these lines in a Postone essay reprinted
by B.M. Chronos.
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