Proudhon's notebooks, Bakunin's Polémique contre les Juifs, the entire tradition Bebel had to name as the socialism of fools precisely because it was a live danger inside the German workers' movement,
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Mark, I think your answer concedes too much ground too fast. "I have not noticed it in 56 years" invites exactly the reply Kristin gave you. The correct answer is not that antisemitism does not exist on the left. It is that its existence does not license the inference she is drawing and that the inference is doing political work independent of its truth. The conflation converts a dispute about a state's conduct into a dispute about the moral character of its critics, which means the state's conduct never has to be argued. Draper said the same thing about how anti-Sovietism functioned in the other direction, and the mechanism is identical.
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