How quickly history is misremembered. What was creeping in the 30’s was communism and fascism. Throw in there the hatred for Jews and we got Naziism. Consider the unwillingness of most of the world accepting socialism and communism and Naziism lead to the outbreak of WWII.
Ironic too that this bit of history is misremembered by the French who are invariably the first to retreat, first to surrender, first to convert over.
What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need; self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly god? Money.This viewpoint has of course percolated down into all forms of socialism, culminating in several holocausts on the way.
Very well, then! Emancipation from huckstering and money—consequently, from practical, real Judaism— would be the self-emancipation of our time. […]
What, in itself, was the basis of the Jewish religion? Practical need; egoism. The monotheism of the Jew, therefore, is in reality the polytheism of the many needs, a polytheism which makes even the lavatory an object of divine law. Practical need, egoism, is the principle of civil society, and as such appears in pure form as soon as civil society has fully given birth to the political state.
The god of practical need and self-interest is money.
Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man and turns them into commodities. Money is the universal self-established value of all things. It has, therefore, robbed the whole world—both the world of men and nature—of its specific value. Money is the estranged essence of man’s work and man’s existence, and this alien essence dominates him, and he worships it.
The god of the Jews has become secularized and has become the god of the world. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. …
— On “The Jewish Question”, 1844