On Thu Jan 11 2001, Peter van Heusden wrote:
> Maybe this is the same as what you talk about, but anyway, I found
> Postone's essay quite useful
A good idea is always worth developing again, especially if it's been forgotten. And besides, it sounds like Postone went into more detail on the finance/capitalism split. (Which, BTW, I'm not sure was actually true of the Nazis. They projected all the ills of capitalism onto Jews, and spent their most spectacular violence and cruellest ostracism on small shopkeepers and peddlers. But it might be a fruitful idea when applied to post-war and especially modern American anti-semitism.) I wonder, since Postone focused on the Nazis, whether he might not even have been consciously refocillating the original line of thought, which was directed against the Nazi's forebears. It's the German socialist August Bebel who is usually quoted as saying in 1893 that "Anti-semitism is the socialism of fools."
Michael
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