Anti-Semitic radicals misidentified the Jewish banker as capitalism’s central figure

Evidence

These Jews, too, mistook the Jewish banker for a central figure in the capitalist system, an error which has exerted a certain influence on the municipal and lower government bureaucracy in France up to our own time. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 171

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the wider scaffolding question of how economic resentment gets projected onto Jews rather than the system itself. — connects to: Anti-Semitic theorists subordinated the Illuminati to an overarching Jewish plot led by money. — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 279