The fate of the Jews absorbed the proletariat’s world-historical role for Adorno

Evidence

Although he is perfectly respectable, he too has fallen victim to the superstitious view of the mysterious otherness of the Jews. I am beginning to feel, particularly under the influence of the latest news from Germany, that I cannot stop thinking about the fate of the Jews any more. It often seems to me that everything that we used to see from the point of view of the proletariat has been concentrated today with frightful force upon the Jews. No matter what happens to the project, I ask myself whether we should not say what we really want to say in connection with the Jews, who are now at the opposite pole to the concentration of power. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1139

Categorization

• XREF: The passage that crystallizes the proletariat-to-Jews substitution already flagged in earlier chapters. — connects to: Adorno conceived of the Jews as the universal proletariat of the enlightenment process — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1140; Marxism’s Jewish-founded structure spared Jews an adversarial role in its sacred history — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 330; The Rothschild household made Jews fit racial blood-based ideologies (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno conceived of the Jews as the universal proletariat of the enlightenment process #expands (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1140
• Marxism’s Jewish-founded structure spared Jews an adversarial role in its sacred history #corroborates (0.80) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 330
• The Rothschild household made Jews fit racial blood-based ideologies #contradicts (0.75)