Van Halen - Intruder

Wagner: “But when politics became public property in our country, it seemed to idealists that the special legal status of the Jews appealed to human justice; this view was supported by the fact that we ourselves had a desire for social liberation. This is precisely where the root of our struggle for Jewish emancipation should be sought, since during this struggle we invariably remained fighters for an abstract principle, for an idea, and not for a specific case of Jewish liberation. This happened because all of our liberalism turned out to be just a game of short-sighted mind, since we took up the liberation of the people, not knowing them, and sincerely avoiding any rapprochement with them. ”