The idea that the bolsheviks used the term "racist" to instigate class warfare makes absolutely no sense. The left, the entire left, in Europe and Russia were already trying to instigate class warfare along class lines. The bolsheviks were actively involved in a class war already. Race was then, as it is now a distraction from class and class warfare. If anything the Bolsheviks were trying to distract from class war, especially since they were emerging as the ruling class. You idea makes no sense.

Also, I was responding to this quote: "by banks you mean jews, and i agree with that". It is a total non-sequitur and a stupid assumption about banks and bankers. Are the German banks, that dominate Europe and screwed over Portugal, Ireland, and Greece, "jews", or are they banks? If you didn't know which, which would matter and which wouldn't? Banks control money, "jews" control too many imaginations it seems. But, rest assured the German banks are banks, not jews. Is Barclays who are neck deep in banking problems in Great Britan "jews"? They are Quakers and try to adhere to Quaker principles (poorly in some cases).

What would you call someone who conflates "jews" with the entire banking industry? Would you call them racist, anti-semitic, stupid, wise, or something else? I can appreciate you might have a problem with how I characterize the comment I responded to, but then how would you characterize it? Please, enlighten me. Maybe I should have chosen anti-Semitic but I don't like that term, as Palestinians are Semitic. I think I should have chosen stupid, because the Jewish guy that used to cut my hair isn't a banker nor is the cab driver who used to live across the street from me. Nor are any of the people working on Wall St and in finance and banking that are Irish or Italian, Black, English and every other ethnicity. Along with stupid I should have called it counter-productive, because when talking about Master Card it is class war and has nothing to do with religion or ethnicity. How would you characterize it?

One last request: how does the term "racist" instigate "class" warfare, when it distracts from it? Here's how you instigate class warfare: Eat the Rich, blast "rolling down rodeo" while rolling down rodeo, pointing out that Nancy Pelosi's Ice Cream collection was her "let them eat cake" moment reminding everyone of what fate befell Marie Antoinette. How do make class warfare trip over its own feet? By having a disfunctional obsession with "jews", or white people, or anything irrelevant trait.