Anti-Semitism, its cause and cure

by DE LEON, DANIEL

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Book desription: Socialist Labor Party. Good. 1921. Soft Cover. 26, [6 advertising] pages, frontispiece (portrait), wrappers, covers stained otherwise very good. Scarce. From the introduction: "Every now and then such questions as Semitism or Anti-Semitism will appear among the many clouds on our social horizon, causing a few more ripples on the political surface or whip into greater fury the tempest in the social teapot. The recent 'Ford incident' was such a cloud. Henry Ford accused certain Jewish financiers of having caused and promoted the war for the sake of reaping profits, supplementing the 'exposures' of the London Morning Post which resuscitated the so-called 'Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion,' a book purporting to be an exposure of a Jewish secret society led by 'Elders of Zion,' who supposedly dream of centering world power in the hands of Jews through the issu9ing of so-called 'protocols.' . . . All superficial Jews, Jews made conceited and shallow by Gentile theology, considered it incumbent upon themselves to rise in the defense of Jewish banking interests. Ford was denounced as a 'traitor on every street corner and hysterical Jews saw visions of pogroms on the streets of New York City. It is in the analysis of such outbursts as the recent Ford incident that this essay on 'Anti-Semitism,' written in 1903 by Daniel De Leon, will prove particularly valuable." From the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: "Daniel De Leon, 1852-1914, American socialist leader. Born on the island of Curaçao of Spanish-American parents, he was educated in Germany and the Netherlands before going (1872) to New York City. There he edited a Spanish newspaper, studied law at Columbia (LL.B., 1876), practiced law for a few years, and then returned to Columbia to lecture (1883-89) on Latin American diplomacy. His interest in labor reform grew, and he joined successively the Knights of Labor (1888), Edward Bellamy's "Nationalist" movement (1889), and the Socialist Labor party (1890). De Leon was the Socialist Labor candidate for governor of New York in 1891, and for years he edited the Socialist Labor weekly, The People. He was an inflexible and doctrinaire Marxian revolutionist and consequently fell out with most other liberal leaders. He opposed unionization of labor according to trades and led the group that formed the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance, but his leadership was too radical for some of the members (prominent among them Morris Hillquit), who withdrew in 1899 and ultimately formed the Socialist party. De Leon's prestige subsequently lessened. He helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World in 1905, but in the quarrel over political action he and his followers were expelled. The rival Workers' International Industrial Union, which he then organized, did not flourish. He wrote a great deal of Socialist polemical literature and translated a work of Karl Marx." .

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