Peloni: This was an excellent discussion.
Michael Doran of HDD hosts Daniel Schwammenthal, the director of the American Jewish Committee’s Transatlantic Institute; Ilan Berman, the vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council; Professor Paul Caresse of Arizona State University; and Senior Fellow Liel Leibovitz in a thoughtful discussion on the recently coordinated antisemitc assaults on Jews carried across the Western world.
These “woke” ideas are not new. They can all be found in Karl Marx’s essay “On the Jewish Question,” one of his earliest published works that have survived and entered the Marxist “Canon.” In this essay, Marx euates Judaism with ‘huckersing,” says that twhat is needed is not the emncipation of the Jews, as proposed by some other members of his Z”young Hegelians” circle, but “the emancipation of the world from Judaism.” He also denounces the concept of”the rights of the individual,” salleging what the individual needs is not individual rights, but to be a “species -being,” meaning part of a larger society devoted to justice as Marx conceives of it. He specifically denounces the first ten amendments tothe U.S, constituion as exemplars of the false and harmful concept of individual rights. And he denounces the United States as a nation as theworld headquarters of the international “bourgeousie,” from whence bourgeous ideology and behavior have spread ito Europe and throughout the world. And he wrote this in 1844, when the U.S. was yet to be considered even one of the world’s great powers by any Europeans other than Marx himself! In other words, Marx was already100% “woke” in 1844!