The Ashkenazi Revolution

80influence in a number of Mideastern lands. Had the war not broken out atthe beginning of the second half of the first century, when the empire wasat its peak, but in another hundred or hundred and fifty years, then it mighthave transpired that the Jews would have established a large Mideasternkingdom, and all of world history would have taken a different course. Itwas very difficult for Rome to avoid becoming entangled in this war sincethe Jews provoked the emperor in such a way that it struck at the stabilityof the empire. But despite this, the destruction of the Temple, and theannihilation of a large portion of the Jewish People, was a cruel anddegrading act beyond compare. The compromise that was reachedafterward, that gave the Jews the possibility to live as a nation withoutterritorial claims, never caused the feeling of injustice, that was done tothem, to be forgotten from the Jewish heart. The minority Jewishpopulations in the Roman world always remained a foreign, and hostile,element and sought to gain its revenge on the spiritual plane.Karl Marx held the God of the Jews in contempt and he was estranged fromJudaism (even as he loved the Jewish activists in London), but despite this,he was a typical Jew who sprang from generations of Ashkenazic rabbis.His book “Das Kapital” has great similarities to the Talmud and to otherJewish religious writings, and the socialistic pathos of Marx is entirely aSemitic pathos whose hearth was in the Mideast. The slave revolts of theRoman world and the rebellions of the peasants, who were subjugated inEurope during the Middle Ages, did not bring about social justice. Afterthese rebellions, there was no social contract. Feudal lords and hereditaryrulers conveniently ruled the social order of both of the Roman Empire andof the Middle Ages. In both these periods, the government depended uponthe strength of mercenaries who were willing and able to subdue anyuprising against those who paid their salaries.However, with the arrival of the 19 th century, conditions changed from oneextreme to the other. The French Revolution destroyed the feudal system.Instead of a stationary army of feudal lords, and a professional army of paidmercenaries, people’s armies arose. The proportion of farm laborers,among the proletariat, decreased and, against this, the ranks of skilled