In this perhaps lies the explanation both of Jewish Bolshevism and of Zionism, for at this moment Eastern Jewry seems to hover uncertainly between the two. All that is true, and Jewish thinkers of the more fearless type always recognize it as true. The Jew against the Gentile scheme of things. He is, when he gives his tendencies full sway, a Republican as against the monarchy, a Socialist as against the republic, and a Bolshevist as against socialism. First, his essential lack of democracy.
Jewish nature is autocratic.
Democracy is all right for the rest of the world, but the Jew wherever he is found forms an aristocracy of one sort or another. The Jews today are the only people whose special and extraordinary privileges are written into the world's Treaty of Peace. Whether the Jew knows it or not, every Gentile knows that on his side of the Jewish Question no religious prejudice exists. Economic jealousy may exist, at least to this extent, that his uniform success has exposed the Jew to much scrutiny. None of the Jewish spokesmen mention the political cause, or if they come within suggestive distance of it, they limit it and localize it.