Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
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>> It smacks of veiled 19th century anti-Semitism of the "scratch a
>> banker, find a Jew" variety without being overtly anti-Semitic.
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> It's remarkable how often you find them in close proximity. It fits
> nicely with the Postone/Zizek analysis of anti-Semitism as using The
> Jew as a container for all the objectionable stuff about capitalism
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> parasitism and rootlessness, e.g.
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> Doug
^^^^^^^
CB: How does Marx's "On the Jewish Question" impinge on this ?
^^^^^^^
CB: Just kidding.
But there's a big, big, big problem with shielding finance capital from criticism and investigation with claims of anti-semitism. That's like putting the financial wolf in Jewish sheep's clothing.
Finance capital can't get a pass , because anti-Semites have been anti-banks. Can't have repression of anti-finance rhetoric under the cover of protecting Jewish people. Can't try to hide the enormous and dominating power and control of finance capital by charging its critics with anti-semitism . no we can't . not at all . don't even try it. that won't do at all.