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.