Marxism’s Jewish-founded structure spared Jews an adversarial role in its sacred history

Evidence

This church too, coincidentally, was founded by one of Jewish origin and background. One might even argue that he too was to some extent inspired by Jewish prophetic vision and Jewish messianism. Fortunately, unlike his predecessors, he did not come into collision with his Jewish co-religionists, and the Jews are therefore not cast, in Marxist sacred history, in an adversarial role as they are in Christian and to a lesser extent in Muslim history. It is perhaps fortunate that the modern secular religion has not claimed Spinoza as its founder. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 330

Categorization

• XREF: The wry closing line about Spinoza connects to wider debates over Spinoza as patron of secular modernity. — connects to: The fate of the Jews absorbed the proletariat’s world-historical role for Adorno — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1139