In Reply to: More like a classic case of Trumpsimping plus abject stupidity posted by Dr.J on August 19, 2025 at 08:49:03
I finally started her book. Long overdue, I know.
Her take on antisemitism in the beginning of the book (like I said, I just started) really took me by surprise in a way. It made me realize that I had not, up to now, read anything about the origins of antisemitism that goes beyond "they've always hated us". And what she says there makes instinctive sense to me as a person who has had a tangential exposure to sufficient amounts of Marxist thinking back in his youth long long ago.
I'm still in the early phases of the book, but I am fascinated by her take on the social and historical background on the relationship between different segments of Jewish society interacting with the constantly evolving nature of European power relations.
Between that and the last part of Naomi Klein's book, Doppelganger, where she talks about the different strands of Jewish politics in Europe at the turn of the 19th century and the conflict between zionism and the "here and now" folks (Bundism?) I feel like my horizon just expanded.
I haven't even gotten to the part that it's famous for, and I'm already hella impressed.