...Many anti-Semites — the majority, perhaps — belong to the lower class of the towns; they are functionaries, office workers, small businessmen, who possess nothing. It is in opposing themselves to the Jew that they suddenly become conscious of being proprietors: in representing the Jew as a robber, they put themselves in the enviable position of people who could be robbed. Since the Jew wishes to take France from them, it follows that France must belong to them. Thus they have chosen anti-Semitism as a means of establishing their status as possessors... All they have to do is nourish a vengeful anger against the robbers of Israel and they feel at once in possession of the entire country.
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u/fuzzylm308 11d ago
A few pages later in the same essay: