Wednesday, June 10, 2026

TED Adorno and Horkheimer describe a core engine of Marxism

 Karl Marx, Capital, Volume One, Part II: The Transformation of Money and Capital CHAPTER FOUR: THE GENERAL FORMULA FOR CAPITAL: "The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews . . ."

Adorno and Horkheimer noted in Dialectic of Enlightenment, “antisemitism is a deeply imprinted schema, a ritual of civilization.” Its basic narrative framework resurfaces whenever a “false social order” must obscure the causes of its crises by projecting them onto an external enemy. 

 “There is no antisemite,” also wrote Adorno and Horkheimer in Dialectic of Enlightenment, “who does not basically want to imitate his mental image of a Jew.” The “portrait of the Jews” as all-powerful puppet masters, in other words, is the “self-portrait” of all those who “long for total possession and unlimited power.” 

And Adolph and Goebbels were self-described " Revolutionary socialists " to their deaths.  Figures.

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