Posted by
Defend America on Saturday, October 10, 2009 1:50:58 PM
This article was written over 12 years ago, but it is nonetheless an interesting read.
By
Tyler Cowen • January 1997 • Volume: 47 • Issue: 1
Dr. Cowen teaches economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
Auschwitz meant that six million Jews were killed,
and thrown on the waste-heap of Europe, for what they were considered:
money-Jews. Finance capital and the banks, the hard core of the system
of imperialism and capitalism, had turned the hatred of men against
money and exploitation, and against the Jews. . . . Antisemitism is
really a hatred of capitalism.
—Ulrike Meinhof, left-wing German terrorist of the 1970s
Capitalism and the market economy encourage racial,
ethnic, and religious tolerance, while supporting a plurality of
diverse lifestyles and customs. Heavily regulated or socialist
economies, in contrast, tend to breed intolerance and ethnic
persecution. Socialism leads to low rates of economic growth, disputes
over resource use, and concentrated political power—all conditions
which encourage conflict rather than cooperation. Ethnic and religious
minorities usually do poorly when political coercion is prevalent.
Economic collapses—usually associated with interventionism—worsen the
problem by unleashing the destructive psychological forces of envy and
resentment, which feed prejudice and persecution.
http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/the-socialist-roots-of-modern-anti-semitism/