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The conditions which transformed traditional hostilities toward Jews into political antisemitism were consequences of the impact of capitalism upon a traditional, preindustrial society. This was a society of small peasant farms and villages, lords in distant castles, and towns still dominated by local merchants and ancient artisanal guilds. Breaching the walls of this closed world, the forces of commerce and industry spread dislocation, anxiety, suffering, and resentment. In the growing cities, a working class or proletariat emerged from the rubble of shattered tradition to form a base of potential support for mass political parties. While socialists were inspired by a vision of revolution, other new political parties sought to strengthen pre-capitalist institutions and preserve traditional values threatened by the forces of modernization.
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Steiman, L.B. (1998). Imperial Germany and Habsburg Austria: Ideology, Politics, Culture. In: Paths to Genocide. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371330_7
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