Rosenbaum on Arendt & Hobson on "fangs"....

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 27 18:55:38 CST 2009


 [Arendt] relies here on the account by the British economist J.A. Hobson in which he referred to Jewish financiers 'leaving their economic fangs in the carcasses of their prey. They fastened on the Rand … as they are prepared to fasten upon any other spot on the globe'—

"Fangs"? You say this sounds like pure Hitlerite rhetoric that could have been lifted from Mein Kampf? Well, yes, it does, doesn't it?


Hobson, John A. (1858-1940) ..... and Japan have fastened their political and economic fangs into some special portion of the body of China by annexation, ...
www.econlib.org/library/YPDBooks/Hobson/hbsnImp13.html 

New Liberalism, Old Prejudices: J. A. Hobson and the "Jewish Question"at one point in The War in South Africa, Hobson writes of the Jews leaving their "eco- nomic fangs in the carcas[s]e of their prey" and of British foreign ...


So, Golden Fangs are ???



      



More information about the Pynchon-l mailing list