Is the murder of many millions of Jews only a substitutionary act? Are Belzec and Sobibor only events for the repressive-bureaucratic discharge of tensions resulting from the contradictory constitution of the fascist state system? Is the talk of the Holocaust in this respect a euphemism, because it asserts the idea of a specific context of sacrifice, a qualified vicarious suffering and death in a context in which death as mass murder is no more than the natural catastrophic consequence of a Leviathan flailing about as projectively as aimlessly in an effort to achieve its inner equilibrium? "It is the central thesis of this Essey that, in striking contrast to the politico-religious sense of anti-Judaism of historical character, the anti-Semitism of European tradition has an essentially political-economic significance and, dtatt as de.