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Tuesday, February 28. 2006

The "Moses Complex": Jews and Folk Marxism

The always-interesting Kling takes a look at the Jewish Liberal-Left, and maps out a cultural-historical narrative which explains it. Here's his summary:

The Original

    Marxist

Folk Marxist

Pharaoh

Capitalist Class

Wal-Mart

Hebrews

Working Class

Other Stores

Moses

Karl Marx

Liberal Pundits

God

Communism

Government

His thesis is that a historical-cultural template is applied to circumstances, but that the template doesn't always fit reality. Thinking "inside the box", so to speak. At TCS, read the entire interesting piece.

Posted by The Barrister in Politics at 17:10 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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With all due respect, I cannot understand why any Jew would be a liberal when the liberals support Israel's enemies, seek to prevent free speech here at home, practice political correctness which view Jews as monsters victimizing Balcks in America and Muslims overseas.

I see liberal Jews as being people without any sense of what's best for them.
#1 LomaAlta (Link) on 2006-02-28 18:41 (Reply)
I think that's why he wrote the article
#2 bird dog on 2006-02-28 18:59 (Reply)

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