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I dunno. Without hucksterism, the concept of money would have no meaning.

Karl Marx exemplifies a self-hating intellectual. He was simply wrong on defining his fellow Jews as money-loving and huckstering; everyone, whether Jewish or non-Jewish, Semitic or non-Semitic, all love money (otherwise there wouldn't be so many sellouts in Congress and in media; not all of them are Jewish); as for huckstering, that depends on how easily the person can remove empathy towards the intended mark. Some of the teachings in Judaism and Islam (and for much of pre-1945 Christianity too) do make the faithful easier to remove their own empathy towards intended marks/targets, such as the concepts of "chosen people," "God-given right" to kill and/or exploit all non-believers, etc..

Christianity only became tolerant after two schisms and much bloodshed (such as the 30-years War, and Huguenot Wars). Even then the leading idea became colonialism under the banner of bringing the gospel to all heathens for over a couple centuries, before broad-spectrum tolerance taking hold after 1945. To some degree, IMHO, the last phase was made easier thanks to the repeated teaching of the Holocaust; regardless how accurate some of the details were (or the original purpose of putting together the story after the 1948 war, then 6-day War and Yom Kippur War), the story of the Holocaust was likely the first time in human history "history" was systematically re-written from the victims' side. It would be like if the story of Jericho instead of telling the story of the victorious Jews slaughtering all men, women, children and live stock according to God's command, told the story from the side of a few surviving Canaanites who fled from the invading fascists who tried to exterminate them.

BTW, I was a little alarmed by the title of the thread: I thought you were writing about the settlers in the intersection of the 3 -ism's, as they are Anti-semitic (against 97% Semites, i.e. Arabs), often Marxist (Kibutz, communes) and often Fascist (in their nationalistic hatred against pre-existing locals (whom they consider inferior to themselves) and love for the dream of Greater Israel from Nile to the Euphrates, very similar to the Lebensraum idea fashionable in where many of them and their ancestors came from before relocating to the British Mandate of Palestine). Many historians and economists observed that the idea of Lebensraum was actually contradictory to most German families' personal choice in migration (include Hitler's own family/ancestors): instead of simple repetitive farm settlements replicating east-ward to the land's end (the Urals if not Siberia), even Hitler's own family had moved west-ward from the east side of Austria to Lindz located at the west end of Austria before himself moving further west to Bavaria. People are attracted to economic opportunities, not repetitive simple farm settlements, which can not survive economically without massive government subsidy. The repetitive commune idea is actually very Marxist and Fascist (all Marxist regimes eventually become fascistic, because its economic model doesn't work therefore have to be enforced onto unwilling peons and/or loot other countries), and inevitably would run into conflict with another Marxist/Socialist likely also turned Fascist entity over territorial control.