Capitalismo e os judeus

"... Judaism never idealized poverty, as Christianity often did. Nor did it ban lending with interest. Medieval European Jews -- who in many places were forbidden to own land, forced to live in ghettos and excluded by governments and guilds from numerous manual trades -- were actively recruited as lenders by state and papal authorities...

Capitalism has always been a force for societal change. The prominence of Jews at its cutting edges, both real and exaggerated, swelled the reactionary tide of anti-Semitism that built to a tragic crescendo in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. So did Jewish involvement in the “Anti-thesis,” a communist ideology that promised to erase anti-Semitism “by abolishing its roots in capitalism itself.”The result was what Muller dubs “a dialect of disaster.” Anti-Semitism from the far right drove Jews to the far left, further fueling fears that Jews were agents of violent revolution. Jews wound up persecuted by Nazis and Soviets alike.The dilemma was encapsulated in a comment a Moscow rabbi reputedly made about Leon Trotsky, an atheist born with a Jewish name, Lev Bronstein: “The Trotskys made the revolution, and the Bronsteins paid the bills.”
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Jerry Z. Muller: Capitalism and the Jews