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WHAT IS HINDUISM?


Hitler and Nazism identified ‘The Monotheism of
Money’ and its consequences exclusively with the Jews as a
race and/or as a historic caste of usurers and bankers –
failing to see, as Marx had done, that Christian and secular
capitalist culture was the already fulfilled and all-pervasive
expression of this ‘Jewish’ Monotheism, thus rendering its
ritualised expression in the form of traditional religious
Judaism both marginal and redundant.


.“The Jew has emancipated himself in a Jewish manner, not
only because he has acquired financial power, but also
because, through him and also apart from him, money has
become a world power and the practical Jewish spirit has
become the practical spirit of the Christian nations. The
Jews have emancipated themselves insofar as the Christians
have become Jews ... Indeed, in North America, the
practical domination of Judaism over the Christian world
has achieved as its unambiguous and normal expression
that the preaching of the Gospel itself and the Christian
ministry have become articles of trade, and the bankrupt
trader deals in the Gospel just as the Gospel preacher who
has become rich goes in for business deals.”


Karl Marx, On the Jewish Question


Along with the emancipation of Jews that Marx
described went an increasing degree of assimilation of Jews
into their host countries and their identification with its
culture – first and foremost German culture. The result of

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