ABSTRACT
Racism and anti-Semitism are different-in-unity. All forms of racism project the Other as a disintegrating power, allegedly undermining the integration of the one-national boat. The Marxist left on the whole agrees with Marx's judgement that the coercive character of bourgeois society is concentrated in the form of the state, and that the purpose of this political form is to guarantee the reproduction of the capital-labour class antagonism. This chapter focuses on that form of anti-Semitism that found its raison detre in Auschwitz. It argues that anti-Semitism is directly related with 'modernity's' attempt at reconciling its constituting contradiction, that is, the class antagonism between capital and labour. Anti-Semitism has always been based on an urge that its instigators held against the Social Democrats: the urge for equality. Social Democracy sees equality as emanating from the project of the Enlightenment. It urges equality to achieve a just and fair society.
