From the Socialism of Fools to the Wokeism of Morons

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Instead of inspiring a wave of sympathy and support for Israel and Jews, the atrocities committed in that tiny nation on October 7, 2023 were met with a surge of anti-Semitism as what the late David Horowitz called the “unholy alliance” of radical Muslims and Progressives raged ecstatically across the Western world. Now the author of a new book on anti-Semitism declares that while that irrational, ancient hatred “is not redeemable,” it is “annihilable,” and the necessary precondition for that is to destroy “the synergy that propels both Left and Islam.”

Born in Ukraine to a military officer father, Dr. Gary Gindler is an American columnist and political scientist (with a doctorate in theoretical physics to boot) focusing primarily on anti-Leftism and anti-Communism. His previous book, Left Imperialism: From Cardinal Richelieu to Klaus Schwab (2024), examined a whole gamut of ideologies from an evolutionary perspective, tracing the origin of many standard political terms like “left-wing” and “right-wing” from their inception through all their manifestations to the present.

Gindler’s new book is Left Anti-Semitism: From Socialism of Fools to Wokeism of Morons, which analyzes the historical and ideological roots of anti-Semitism within Left-wing politics. He begins by clarifying that

this book is not a deep dive into anti-Judaism, a realm for theologians, nor Judeophobia, a puzzle for social scientists. It circumvents anti-Zionism and anti-Israelism, which are distinct fields from the political arena we explore. Debunking tired tropes like “Israel is an apartheid state” is not our mission. Instead, we train our gaze on anti-Semitism’s political pulse—its animus against the Enlightenment’s gifts: freedom, capitalism, and individual rights.

Left Anti-Semitism invites readers “to perceive anti-Semitism for what it is: a political plague, centuries in the making, with the Left as its most cunning architect.” Drawing on his physicist background, likening traditional Left-Right classifications to geocentric astronomy, Gindler proceeds to offer a sharp, original analysis of anti-Semitism as a distinctly Left-wing political instrument rather than a timeless prejudice or Right-wing relic. The book’s analytical strength is what he calls the “individual-state paradigm” to reframe political ideologies and expose how Jew-hatred has served as a tool for consolidating state power over individuals across centuries. In 300 pages, it traces anti-Semitism’s evolution from pre-modern scapegoating through Wilhelm Marr’s 19th-century invention of the term to its contemporary expression in woke ideology. The result is a persuasive, tightly argued work that challenges conventional narratives.

The individual-state paradigm asks who controls wealth and power—the individual or the collective (state)? The Right privileges individual sovereignty and limited government; the Left subordinates the individual to state control. This framework allows Gindler to classify regimes and movements consistently across history, from ancient empires to modern democracies. It gives the book an intellectual coherence that many ideological studies lack.

Part II examines European “pre-anti-Semitism”—a term Gindler uses to distinguish older forms of Jew-hatred from the modern, ideologically weaponized variety. He surveys episodes from Roman civil wars and medieval expulsions to the French Revolution and beyond, showing how Jews were repeatedly scapegoated during crises. Gindler argues that pre-modern hostility often stemmed from religious or economic envy, but it lacked the deliberate, state-centric logic that defines true anti-Semitism as a left-wing sub-ideology. The analysis here is brimming with examples and sets the stage for the book’s claim that modern anti-Semitism is not an accidental outgrowth of prejudice but a calculated mechanism for population control, with Jews as the visible decoy and non-Jews as the ultimate target.

The heart of the book lies in Part III, which centers on Wilhelm Marr and the explicit rise of Left-wing anti-Semitism. Marr, a 19th-century German journalist and socialist sympathizer, did not invent Jew-hatred, of course; he professionalized and politicized it. Gindler shows how Marr reframed ancient animus into a “scientific,” secular ideology suited to emerging socialist movements. Anti-Semitism became a Trojan horse for attacking capitalism, individualism, and property rights. Chapter 6 extends this to Marr’s contemporaries and successors, demonstrating how Left-wing movements from Marx and Engels onward routinely channeled economic grievances and class warfare through anti-Jewish rhetoric. Successive waves of Jewish achievement (in commerce, science, and culture) only intensified the backlash, creating a self-reinforcing cycle: Jewish success under relatively free markets is portrayed as proof of exploitation, justifying greater state control.

Chapter 7 tackles the thorny question of definition. Anti-Semitism, Gindler insists, is not mere dislike or even hatred; it is a political agenda disconnected enough from actual Jews that it can flourish even in their near-absence. It functions as a “permacrime”—the mere existence of Jews becomes a permanent offense against the collective. This chapter also dismantles attempts to equate Zionism with racism or to treat anti-Zionism as unrelated to anti-Semitism. The paradigm clarifies why such distinctions collapse: both serve the same Left-wing goal of subordinating individuals (and nations) to collective ideological control.

Part IV shifts to “post-anti-Semitism,” examining its persistence in the totalitarian Left and offering a strategy for defeat. Gindler traces how Soviet-style anti-Zionism, Leninist polemics, and Marcusean “repressive tolerance” fused into the modern campus and activist left’s anti-Israel campaigns. BDS, “settler-colonial” framing of Israel, and post-October 7 rhetoric are presented not as organic outrage but as continuations of the same control mechanism—Jews (or the Jewish state) as the perpetual oppressor class. The book’s treatment of wokeism, signaled in the subtitle, portrays it as the latest mutation: identity politics and intersectionality simply substitute race, gender, and “oppressor” categories for class while keeping Jews in the villain role.

The final chapter on “How to Defeat Anti-Semitism” is pragmatic rather than utopian. Gindler notes that in our time, anti-Semitism has gone mainstream “only because it yields political dividends.” That means the way to eradicate it is to target not the “misguided carriers” of anti-Semitism but its beneficiaries. “The beast must be starved to death—meaning anti-Semitism must be made politically unprofitable.” Because all rational arguments against irrational Jew-hatred are ineffective, “Jews must concentrate not on improving their negative perception but on making anti-Jewish sentiments economically unfeasible.”

Prosperity undercuts the envy and scarcity mindsets that fuel anti-Semitism, Gindler claims. When state control shrinks, the political utility of scapegoating Jews evaporates. As Milton Friedman once put it, “The way to solve problems is to make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.”

Gindler writes with clarity and avoids polemical excess, letting the logic of the paradigm and historical patterns carry the argument. His book supplies a missing piece in the literature on Left-wing Jew-hatred, which has long been under-examined compared to Right-wing variants. Its greatest strength is the consistent application of the individual-state paradigm, which cuts through semantic confusion and reveals continuities that conventional histories might obscure.

Left Anti-Semitism received glowing recommendations from such historians as Larry Schweikart (A Patriot’s History of the United States), the Manhattan Institute’s Ilya Shapiro, and the Freedom Center’s own Robert Spencer, himself the author of Antisemitism: History and Myth, who calls Gindler’s work “an invaluable guide to a growing and metastasizing problem.” A scholarly read dense with ideas, the book succeeds in viewing a perennial problem through a fresh lens, demonstrating why anti-Semitism thrives under Left-wing dominance, and pointing toward a practical path forward grounded in individual liberty and free markets. For anyone seeking to understand why the “oldest hatred” has found such fertile ground in Progressive circles—and why conventional responses have failed—this is an essential and timely contribution.

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