Continuing with the Veritas Foundation Staff Study on social pseudo sciences, aka liberalism. Just one chapter here as the next chapter was too long to include in this one on American liberals...

... Many people take the attitude that anti-Semitism is a European phenomenon, and that the areas based on Anglo-Saxon tradition are largely free from such excrescences. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

As has been noted previously, the first large scale socialist movement in America was that based upon the teachings of the French socialist Charles Fourier. Albert Brisbane, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Horace Greeley, Charles A. Dana, and many others, had pioneered socialism in America via the Fourierist philosophy. The works of Charles Fourier were widely disseminated throughout America from 1830 on.1 In fact, the United States represented the largest contingent of the Fourierist socialist colonies. These works were full of anti-Jewish oharges, reflecting the general socialist claim that the system of private enterprise was a Jewish development.

Edmund Silberner, in his work "Fourier on the Jewish Question", says:

"Fourier attributed to commerce a multitude of sins. 'Trade', he wrote, is nothing but 'a method of exchange in which the seller has the right to cheat with impunity.' It stimulates a 'general egoism' and sacrifices collective interest to individual greed,"2
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"Convinced that the Jews were the incarnation of commerce, the basis of Fourier's anti-Semitism is patent."3

Early American socialists had been inspired by such statements from Fourier as:

"Ah! Has there ever been a nation more despicable than the Hebrews, who have achieved nothing in art and science, and who are distinguished only by a record of crime and brutality which at every page of their loathsome annals makes you sick!"4

The above were widely read throughout the United States in the early part of the 19th century.5

Interestingly enough, "Victor Considerant, a gifted popularizer of Fourier's ideas, published in 1845, the Manifeste de La democratie, many passages of which, as some unfriendly critics of Marx claimed, reappeared three years later in a somewhat 'rewritten' form in the Communist Manifesto." 6 The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx, as we have noted before, was written as a sequel to Marx's contention that the Jews were a prototype of the capitalist system. Considerant himself, "where he expresses himself on the Jews speaks of 'the egotism and incivility of this people,' for whom the idea of the Redemption is nothing else but 'its triumph and its domination over all the other nations of the world.' "7

The transition from Fourierist socialism to Marxist socialism occurred almost without effort. In 1848, Albert Brisbane, leading American Fourierist socialist, and his disciple Charles Dana, the publisher of the New York Tribune, met with Karl Marx in England Brisbane called Karl Marx, "the leader of the people's movement" and said that he could "detect the passionate fire of a daring spirit."8

https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/12/part-6-great-deceitbigotry-of-american.html