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Alfred Rosenberg

Along with the rigid mind and the hatred of Christ (which
naturally far exceeds the hostility to the German blood) goes the
understandable demand for rule over other peoples.
It returns often: it does not appeal to ability, to
accomplishments, but solely to the promise of Moses and the
prophets. "God has promised to his people happiness in this life
and all blessedness in the other. He has said to them that all its
persecutions at the hand of the nations will have a final end, that it
will rule over them, that it will have at its disposal abundance of
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silver and gold instead of lead and iron ..,"
I must content myself with these hints, but even they show
with unmistakable clarity an immobile essential structure closed
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within itself. According to Ezekiel, the Jews have "hard heads";
in reading Jewish writings one can be led to despair regarding their
hard-headedness and, in cases of great learning, their bigotry. But if
their influence actually comes over the masses, then the despair is a
real and general one. A sad example: the present.
Even the present, with the unconditional rule of the Jewish
character, has been slowly determined in advance, as shown, the
fruit of forces at work already in the past. I had already pointed to
the working ofthe machine which prepared the ground for the Jewish
forces of materialisation.
Through the growing expansion of these forces, through
the specialising that became ever more necessary, the worker was
condemned to an ever more aimless activity; aimless for him because
he saw a product leave a factory whose construction and effect were
incomprehensible to him. Whereas the farmer was forced by his
work to worry about the future, to think out the means wherewith to
secure it, this was lacking to the worker, he conducted purely
mechanical work. He became, as Goethe would say, bankrupt
through "unconditional work". Into the masses disposed in this way
fell the poison-seed of the Marxist doctrine.

M4 Op.cit., p. 35. For further details on these ideas see Weber, System der synagogalen
Theologie. [Ferdinand Weber's System der alt-synagogalen-paldstinischen
Theologie aus Targum, Midrasch und Talmud was published posthumously in 1880.]
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[Ezek 3:7]
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