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.I have often wondered who leftists, ignorant of history, would attribute those words to if you just uttered them out of nowhere and then asked them “Who wrote this?”
Very well, then! Emancipation from huckstering and money—consequently, from practical, real Judaism—would be the self-emancipation of our time. […]
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. …
Yes, the communists hated the Jews as much as the NAZIs hated them.
The difference was the NAZIs used the Jews as the focus of all their problems after World War 1.
The communists had multiple groups they hated. The Jews were just one of them because it helped feed the class warfare side of their arguments.