Duehring invented a naturalistic theory of Jewish race on the German left

Evidence

The only leftist German antisemite of any importance was E. Duehring who, in a confused way, invented a naturalistic explanation of a “Jewish race” in his Die Judenfrage als Frage der Rassenschädlichkeit für Existenz, Sitte und Cultur der Völker mit einer weltgeschichtlichen Antwort, 1880. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2000

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Prepares the field for Arendt’s genealogy of race-thinking as distinct from class-based antisemitism.