6 Marx, the Jewish Revolutionary Archetype
The general suggestion of the Morning Post that the Jewish Community is, for the most part, composed of dangerous Revolutionists is a little difficult to deal with, because, at the same time, it is admitted that they are not sincere. While preaching their subversive doctrines they are said to be really anti-democratic, and to simulate a zeal for Atheism and Anarchy only in order to bring about the social and political Armageddon out of which their own Davidic Autocracy is to emerge and triumph. Everything, then, hinges on this motive, and it has already been shown that it is nothing more than a millennial hope which has no place in the field of practical politics. The appeal to Karl Marx as the Archetype of the Jewish Revolutionist is, in this connection, particularly unfortunate. In the first place, Marx was not even remotely a Jew by religion, and therefore the Messianic motive is scarcely likely to have weighed with him. He was probably a sincere Revolutionist, and, in that case, he was just as little a Jew, seeing that his philosophy has no relation to any recognised school of Jewish thought. Marx, indeed, was an intellectual product of the essentially Gentile teachings of Hegel and Feuerbach. Perhaps the best test of the Gentilism of his outlook is that, while his Jewish disciples were comparatively few, his Christian converts are numbered in millions. In the second place, if Marx was the chief instrument of a Jewish plot to subvert Christian society, he must have proved something of a disappointment to his secret employers. Among the forces which are making for World Unrest to-day he is a relatively conservative element. The Morning Post itself supplies the proof of this. In its anxiety to convict Marx of adding the sin of Germanism to the criminality of anti-Christian Thuggee—a little difficult to reconcile—it recalls his life-long quarrel with Bakounine, and explains it as exclusively a struggle between Judeo-Germanism and Slavism.22 There is, however, no reason to believe that it was at bottom anything but a conflict between Socialism and Anarchism—that is, between those who, however revolutionary they may be in a social sense, would still maintain the structure of the State, and those who would destroy it root and branch. Here we see that it is not the Jew Socialist who works to destroy the established political order of things, but the Gentile Anarchist. This point may be still further illustrated by Syndicalism and Bolshevism, which are both far more destructive than Socialism and are both revolts against Marx. It is true that Lenin pretends to be a strict Marxist, but his orthodoxy is vehemently contested by all the leading Marxists in England, France, and Germany, and by the whole body of Russian Mensheviks, among whom are many Jews.23
It is impossible, within the restricted scope of this essay, to deal with all the incidental accusations against Jews contained in the Morning Post indictment; but most of them will be found covered by the above classification. The charge of Bolshevism, which is the only conspicuous exception, will be examined in a later chapter.
The upshot of the matter is that the “Formidable Sect” is a German Anti-Semitic and Anglophobe myth, founded in malice and hysteria, built up of garbled history, and synthetised by impudent forgery. How it came to impose itself on the plethoric patriotism of the Morning Post is a mystery which may be worth investigating. Whatever the explanation, it must be counted a triumph for German junkerdom and a consoling token to that eminent traitor Herr Houston Chamberlain that he is not altogether without spiritual affinities in the land of his birth.
Footnotes
1 Morning Post, July 12-30, 1920.
2 “Thoughts on French Affairs” (Burke’s Works, Vol. III., p. 350).
3 Gentleman’s Magazine, June, 1794.
4 Infra p. 14.
5 Morning Post, July 16, 1920.
6 Infra pp. 19 et seq.
7 See Wichtl and Meister op. cit. A peculiarly crazy statement of this theory, illustrated by an obscene chart pedigree of Queen Victoria, will be found in Semi-Imperator (Munich, 1919). Cf. Proceedings of the British Israel World Federation Congress, July 5-10, 1920.
8 Morning Post, July 14, 1920.
9 Ibid.
10 Quoted by Frost, “Secret Societies of the European Revolution,” Vol. I., p. 6.
11 Frost, op. cit., pp. 12-13.
12 Robison: “Proofs of a Conspiracy Against all the Religions and Governments of Europe” (Lond., 1797), pp. 38-39.
13 Morning Post, July 15, 1920. See also Spectator, June 19 and 26, 1920.
14 Gougenot des Mousseaux, op. cit., p. 343.
15 Since this was written a learned and comprehensive reply has been published, demolishing the whole Masonic side of the Morning Post’s argument. (See A.W. Waite: “Occult Freemasonry and the Jewish Peril” in the Occult Review, Sept., 1920.)
16 Oliver: “History of Masonic Persecution,” pp. 298-300.
17 Robison, op. cit., pp. 30, 38-39, 62.
18 Smith: “Memoirs of Pombal,” Vol. II., p. 248.
19 Ibid., pp. 249-250. As a matter of fact Pasqualis was a Christian born at Grenoble (Waite: Occult Rev., Sept., 1920).
20 Kahn: Les Juifs à Paris, pp. 64-71.
21 Ibid., pp. 72-85.
22 Morning Post, July 16, 1920.
23 Infra pp. 45-46.