[lbo-talk] Lenin on anti-semitism

Joel Wendland joelrw at hotmail.com
Fri Feb 25 13:13:26 PST 2005


Lenin on Anti-Semitism By V.I. Lenin

http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/718/1/78/

"Anti-Semitism means spreading enmity towards the Jews. When the accursed tsarist monarchy was living its last days it tried to incite ignorant workers and peasants against the Jews. The tsarist police, in alliance with the landowners and the capitalists, organized pogroms against the Jews. The landowners and the capitalists tried to divert the hatred of the workers and peasants who were tortured by want against the Jews. The capitalists strive to sow and foment hatred between workers of different faiths, different nations and different races. In other countries, too, we often see the capitalists fomenting hatred against the Jews in order to blind the workers, to divert their attention from the real enemy of the working people, capital.

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http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/718/1/78/



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