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The Fabian J.A. Hobson blamed London poverty on "the foreign Jew," whom he described as "a terrible competitor. He is ... almost void of social morality. No compunction or consideration for his fellow-worker will keep him from underselling and overreaching them; he acquires a thorough mastery of all the dishonourable tricks of trade which are difficult to restrain by law; the superior calculating intellect, which is a national heritage, is used unsparingly to enable him to take advantage of every weakness, folly, and vice of the society in which he lives."<ref>John A. Hobson, ''[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10710/10710-h/10710-h.htm Problems of Poverty: An Inquiry into the Industrial Condition of The Poor]'' (1891), Project Gutenberg</ref> "He craves the position of a sweating-master, the lowest step in a ladder that may lead to a life of magnificence, supported out of usury."<ref>Anthony Julius, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=BGkSLxDBNTgC Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England]'' (Oxford University Press, 2010) ISBN 0199297053, p. 405</ref> In his 1898 book ''http://www.econlib.org/library/YPDBooks/Hobson/hbsnImp.html Imperialism: A Study]'' -- which would profoundly influence Lenin's ''[http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ Imperialism, the Higherst Stage of Capialism]'' (1917) -- Hobson blamed the Boer War on "Jew power"<ref>Anthony Julius,  
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The Fabian J.A. Hobson blamed London poverty on "the foreign Jew," whom he described as "a terrible competitor. He is ... almost void of social morality. No compunction or consideration for his fellow-worker will keep him from underselling and overreaching them; he acquires a thorough mastery of all the dishonourable tricks of trade which are difficult to restrain by law; the superior calculating intellect, which is a national heritage, is used unsparingly to enable him to take advantage of every weakness, folly, and vice of the society in which he lives."<ref>John A. Hobson, ''[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10710/10710-h/10710-h.htm Problems of Poverty: An Inquiry into the Industrial Condition of The Poor]'' (1891), Project Gutenberg</ref> "He craves the position of a sweating-master, the lowest step in a ladder that may lead to a life of magnificence, supported out of usury."<ref>Anthony Julius, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=BGkSLxDBNTgC Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England]'' (Oxford University Press, 2010) ISBN 0199297053, p. 405</ref> In his 1898 book ''[http://www.econlib.org/library/YPDBooks/Hobson/hbsnImp.html Imperialism: A Study]'' -- which would profoundly influence Lenin's ''[http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ Imperialism, the Higherst Stage of Capialism]'' (1917) -- Hobson blamed the Boer War on "Jew power"<ref>Anthony Julius,  
 
[http://books.google.com/books?id=BGkSLxDBNTgC Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England] (Oxford University Press, 2010) ISBN 0199297053, pp. 201-202</ref> was fought for the benefit of "a small group of international financiers, chiefly German in origin and Jewish in race."<ref>Bryan Cheyette, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=HTdwPbE6KoIC Constructions of "the Jew" in English Literature and Society: Racial Representations, 1875-1945]'' (Cambridge University Press, 1995) ISBN 0521558778, p. 156</ref>
 
[http://books.google.com/books?id=BGkSLxDBNTgC Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England] (Oxford University Press, 2010) ISBN 0199297053, pp. 201-202</ref> was fought for the benefit of "a small group of international financiers, chiefly German in origin and Jewish in race."<ref>Bryan Cheyette, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=HTdwPbE6KoIC Constructions of "the Jew" in English Literature and Society: Racial Representations, 1875-1945]'' (Cambridge University Press, 1995) ISBN 0521558778, p. 156</ref>
  
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