Newly-minted socialists would REALLY do well to acquaint themselves with the history of fascists using antisemitism with pseudo-socialist characteristics to peel people off left movements.
It's a pretty core trait of Euro/US fascism, and the popular left keeps falling for it.
Ford pioneered weaponizing antisemitism against left worker movements.
He funded the mass publication of Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the most notorious modern antisemitic text.
He mandated car dealerships carry his newspaper full of antisemitic propaganda.
It's not a coincidence that contemporary antisemitic narrative about "globalists" basically cribs socialist critiques of capitalism and subs out Jews for capitalists.
Wealthy capitalists like Ford made every effort to distract workers from their culpability by blaming Jews.
Hitler was a huge fan of Ford, and built on that tradition of scapegoating Jews for the sins of wealthy capitalists.
People on the far right love to point out that Nazis were "national socialists," and. They WERE trying to trick left workers into going fash.
Contemporary Nazis do this, too.
Remember Matt Heimbach, recently made famous again when the reactionary pseudo-leftists at m4m4a put his face on a poster billing him as a speaker at their rally?
His whole thing is building a Nazi "worker" movement.
Nazis and other reactionaries also exploit the fact that the liberatory left (rightly) opposes Israeli apartheid and genocide of Palestinians.
The thing to know about Nazis is, when THEY say "Israel," they don't mean the government there.
They mean the Jews.
So Nazis and antisemites very frequently exploit leftist sentiments about Israeli apartheid by seeding confusion about what exactly is getting talked about-- the government, or Jews.
And it isn't just an outside job.
Sometimes the call is coming from inside the house.
There are a LOT of calls coming from inside the house these days, and this has been happening for years.
Dore, Greenwald, the TrueAnon folks, Red Scare, just for starters.
And people hate it when I say it, but Chapo Trap House has been a portal to a lot of this bullshit.
@markdo @JohnDongle they sent their fans after me to tweet Nazi memes and photoshop me going through a meatgrinder.
And then Christman did a video chat about it and made fun of me for complaining.
It wasn't just "stepped on toes."
@markdo @JohnDongle 2020. It was horrible.
I had fans of theirs doxxing me, telling me they were outside my home ready to jump me.
Christman actively stoked and encouraged it. He's fucking vile. Absolute garbage human.
Gwen Snyder is uncivil
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