class envy

The whole class envy thing is just like the antisemitism that Hitler propagated. Plug in the rich and you have the same thing today. Demagogues use things like income redistribution to create evil states. Are you unemployed? The Jews have your jobs. Is your family mired in poverty? The Rothschilds have your money. Do you feel more insecure in the city than you did on the land? The Jews are trapping you in factories and charging you exorbitant rents.

Ruth Wisse: The Dark Side of the War on 'the One Percent'

online.wsj.com

In The Wall Street Journal, Ruth R. Wisse writes that stoking class envy is a step in a familiar, dangerous and highly incendiary process.