Jews were historically overrepresented among revolutionary socialists and communists

Evidence

Just as Jews, because they were barred from so many other industries, were overrepresented in finance, Jews were also overrepresented among revolutionary socialists and communists. Like, really overrepresented. Their ranks included, but were by no means restricted to, Leon Trotsky and much of the Menshevik and Bolshevik leadership at the heart of the Russian Revolution; Rosa Luxemburg and many of her comrades in the Spartacus League who hoped to bring a more democratic version of the revolution to Germany; Vladimir Medem and the entire leadership of the Bund; Emma Goldman and the New York anarchist left; and Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and others in the Frankfurt School. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 946

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘seeds of truth to fertilize the fantasies’ phrase dovetails with the reader’s tracking of how the Mirror World metabolizes real grievances — here the ‘seed of truth’ feeds the double’s shadow logic. — connects to: American workers’ anti-Semitic image of Jews omitted the radical-communist stereotype; Assimilated wealthy Jewish sons often rebelled into anti-capitalist theory against their fathers — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 305; Jewish wealth simultaneously attracted antisemitism and enabled socialist identification in heirs