Antisemitic parties uniquely aimed at the state itself, not at any social class

Evidence

The fact that similar formations without active antisemitism—which avoided the charlatan aspect of the antisemitic parties and therefore seemed at first to have far better chances for final victory—were finally submerged or liquidated by the antisemitic movement is a good index to the importance of the issue. The antisemites’ belief that their claim to exclusive rule was no more than what the Jews had in fact achieved, gave them the advantage of a domestic program, and conditions were such that one had to enter the arena of social struggle in order to win political power. They could pretend to fight the Jews exactly as the workers were fighting the bourgeoisie. Their advantage was that by attacking the Jews, who were believed to be the secret power behind governments, they could openly attack the state itself, whereas the imperialist groups, with their mild and secondary antipathy against Jews, never found the connection with the important social struggles of the times. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 152 (#expands, via linked claim)

Our previous analysis has brought us, however, to the conclusion that the true role of the sophisticated, theoretical forms of antisemitism lay not so much in its capacity to foment the antagonist practices of the masses, as in its unique link with the social-engineering designs and ambitions of the modern state (or, more precisely, the extreme and radical variants of such ambitions). — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 230 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Antisemitism’s political aim was liquidating the nation-state, not just the Jews; Theoretical antisemitism matters through its link to state social-engineering ambitions. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 230; Antisemitism won over rival movements by letting parties attack the state through the Jews — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 152 (+2 more)

Related

• Antisemitism’s political aim was liquidating the nation-state, not just the Jews (similarity 0.91)
• Antisemitism won over rival movements by letting parties attack the state through the Jews (similarity 0.89)
• Theoretical antisemitism matters through its link to state social-engineering ambitions. (similarity 0.84)
• Aristocratic antisemitism targeted Jews as symbols of the state, not as economic rivals (similarity 0.82)
• Antisemitism served as an instrument to dissolve the nation-state itself (similarity 0.82)
• Left revolutions challenged the bourgeoisie while antisemitic parties attacked the state itself (similarity 0.81)
• Antisemitic parties claimed to stand above all parties and replace the state itself (similarity 0.81)
• Socialist parties fit the nation-state better than antisemitic ones did (similarity 0.79)
• Antisemitic parties organized supranationally while posing as reactionary nationalists (similarity 0.79)
• Antisemitism functioned as generalizable political hatred of society and the state (similarity 0.79)
• Weimar Jews’ State-party revealed a confusion of party with state (similarity 0.79)
• The first antisemitic parties organized internationally from the start. (similarity 0.79)
• The Holocaust fused antisemitism with social and political mechanisms of an entirely different character. (similarity 0.79)
• German antisemitic parties preceded and outlived the imperialist pan-movements (similarity 0.78)
• Antisemitism could link domestic and foreign policy methods but early pan-leaders missed it. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Antisemitism’s political aim was liquidating the nation-state, not just the Jews #corroborates (0.88)
• Antisemitism won over rival movements by letting parties attack the state through the Jews #expands (0.82) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 152
• Theoretical antisemitism matters through its link to state social-engineering ambitions. #expands (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 230
• Antisemitic parties organized supranationally while posing as reactionary nationalists #expands (0.72)
• Jews formed a state-defined group outside the class system #corroborates (0.72)