Sincere antisemitism radicalizes into full ideology while tactical antisemitism remains mere propaganda

Evidence

The point is that this movement, in contrast to the German Stoeckcr agitation, was initiated and led by a man who was sincere beyond doubt, and therefore did not stop at the use of antisemitism as a propaganda weapon, but developed quickly that Pan-German ideology which was to influence Nazism more deeply than any other German brand of antisemitism. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 162

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Arendt’s later distinction between antisemitism as an ideology vs. as a social convention, and to the Frankfurt-School critique of instrumental reason.