I forgot to add what I wrote in my recent blog entry: Bronner, Stephen Eric. A Rumor about the Jews: Antisemitism, Conspiracy, and the Protocols of Zion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. (1st ed., 2000) Publisher description. Table of contents.
H-Net review: Linda Maizels. "Review of Stephen Eric Bronner, A Rumor about the Jews: Antisemitism, Conspiracy, and the Protocols of Zion," H-Judaic, H-Net Reviews, March, 2004. http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=141461079742078 Chapter 2 reproduces selections of the infamous anti-Semitic forgery are reproduced. It is immediately evident that this tract could only be a product of an illiberal society attempting to stifle the democratic tendencies of modernization-hence the slurs not only against the Jews, but in association with condemnation of all anti-clerical, anti-aristocratic, anti-hierarchical, democratic and liberal tendencies. Not surprising, as it is a czarist forgery. Some of this content would not pass in liberal democracies, but quite a bit of it is still live within the fascist currents of societies like ours, not to mention others. When I have finished this book I hope to say more beyond what is said in the H-Net review cited. Sophisticated models of how religious ideology interacts with sociological factors need to be popularized, especially in the philosophically challenged Anglo-American sphere (including, alas, the otherwise salutary secular humanist movement). [....] ^^^^^^ CB: Is this anti-modernizing anti-semitism different than that of the Inquisition , or does it draw from that era too ? Or was the Inquisition anti-modernist ? _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
