American radicals were especially obsessed with financial conspiracies centered on the Rothschilds.
Evidence
Although this type of speculation was widespread throughout anti-Semitic circles in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it was notably strong in the United States, where radicals of every stripe seemed obsessed by fi nancial conspiracies. The Rothschilds, who combined Jewishness, banking, and international ties, presented an attractive target. — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy, 288
Categorization
- QUESTION: Worth investigating: why were financial conspiracy theories notably stronger in the United States than in Europe?
- XREF: connects to: Antipathy toward wealth unites left and right anti-elite conspiracists — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 355; Rothschild conspiracy fears grew as their real banking influence waned; Conspiracy belief has long spanned the American political spectrum — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 26 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Antipathy toward wealth unites left and right anti-elite conspiracists
#corroborates(0.90) — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy, 355 - Rothschild conspiracy fears grew as their real banking influence waned
#expands(0.85) - Conspiracy belief has long spanned the American political spectrum
#corroborates(0.80) — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 26 - The Rothschild family itself supplied the reality behind antisemitic conspiracy imagery
#expands(0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 121 - Twentieth-century American conspiracy theories shifted from alien out-groups to the government itself.
#qualifies(0.75) — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 75