[lbo-talk] "Yiddishkeit"???

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Mon Aug 20 18:32:54 PDT 2007


Chris Doss wrote:


>Look, I imagine you'd get pretty pissed off if someone
>said for example that usury was a Jewish trait.
>
>Pogrom-style lynch-mob mentality peasant anti-Semitism
>was associated historically in the past couple of
>centuries (before that, it was pan-European) with
>Eastern European rural, quasi-medieval and
>exceptionally superstitious societies, which due to
>the historical accident known as the Mongol Empire
>overlap with Slavic, Baltic and Romanian territories.
>
>
>
-------- But wait. According to Israel Sahak, slavic anti-semitism had a lot to do with the structural position of the jews -- between the aristocrat/landowner and the peasants. The jewish rent/tax collector was beholden to the landowner for his privileges and earned those by squeezing the peasants of everything they had. When the peasants had enough, they would direct their aggression against the money/tax collectors, not against those who had set them against the peasants.

The state of Israel defined itself very similarly between the European (MiddlEast landowning) empire and the sand n-words. That's not working out so great either.

But whatever you want to say about anti-semitic slavs, they don't quite hold a candle to the Aryan masterminds, do they?

Joanna



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