The injustice of justice: Roots of anti-Semitism and radicalism

There is no oppression without moralism, which provides it with its language. The language of injustice that legitimates and sustains all its cruelties is -- justice itself.

The original problem is that the will to justice as form of the good is born with systems of authority, not equality and liberty. From the beginning, the voices of justice have always also been those of authority and oppression. This means that resistance to or rebellion against the injustice of oppression is always vulnerable to accusations of crime. And rebellion must in fact take the risk that it is criminal. It must accept that risk, uncowed.

All of this is implicit in the story of the Garden of Eden, where sin is disobedience. This dooms religion to being a legitimation of oppression.

This goes a long way towards explaining the logic of anti-Semitism. Which is most often a response to the perception of discourses and practices of justice as mechanisms of its contrary.

This is a problem that has a solution, but that solution has so far always eluded most good people. Presumably, the solution if found would blow apart extant notions of justice.