Anti-Semitic conspiracies figure the happiness of the powerless as plotted domination.

Evidence

The thought of happiness without power is unbearable because it would then be true happiness. The illusory conspiracy of corrupt Jewish bankers financing Bolshevism is a sign of innate impotence, just as the good life is a sign of happiness. The image of the intellectual is in the same category: he appears to thinka luxury which the others cannot affordand he does not manifest the sweat of toil and physical effort. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 363

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gives the precise logic of how banker and intellectual imagery condense into the fascist enemy-figure.
• XREF: connects to: Antisemitic images of Jews function to perpetuate the rule of domination.; Conspiracy functions as a power play by the powerless to be seen. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 331; Horkheimer and Adorno saw Jews as embodying happiness free of purposive rationality — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1288 (+8 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Antisemitic images of Jews function to perpetuate the rule of domination.; Conspiracy functions as a power play by the powerless to be seen. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 331; Horkheimer and Adorno saw Jews as embodying happiness free of purposive rationality — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1288 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Conspiracy functions as a power play by the powerless to be seen. #complicates (0.82) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 331
• Horkheimer treated the well-off sensitive minority as those who grasp systemic social evil #complicates (0.73)