@adam-l

Hitler's obsession was against Marxists (which he conflated with Jews), and he specifically declared that they had nothing to do with these kind of socialists.

Now, I’m not talking to the veracity of his claims, but in Mein Kampf, Hitler talks at length about the Bolshevik’s influence on the German war effort during WW1.

Now if you think there’s anything in the historical claims of the Bolshevik revolution actually being a Jewish revolution, then the tantalising thread would be the jews subsequently demoralising Germany, pushing the culture of the Weimar Republic and even negotiated the treaty of Versailles between themselves.

I digress slightly, but the throughline is that Marxists are a jewish ideology. Again, I don’t make any claims of my own as to the veracity of the truth in that.

Anyway, all that being said, I figure a revulsion reaction to “socialism” is a deeply ingrained cultural phenomenon of Americans. I don’t mean that in an antagonistic sense, just that I find Americans the most difficult to have a pragmatic or even utilitarian discussion on socialist policy. I can’t even propose it to them with an ethnic agenda!

@Stigma

I figure a revulsion reaction to “socialism” is a deeply ingrained cultural phenomenon of Americans

Indeed. It's used as a thought-stopper: "this smells like socialism, don't even think about it"!

Now, the claims about Marxism and the Jews... It's actually quite simple, but you need to dig a bit to the emergence of the ideology, not its (mis)application.

Marx was a Jew. There was not a Jewish state back then. So, Jews worldwide either had to imagine a state of their own (as mercenaries to global forces, which is what came to be), or imagine an abolition of all borders and a fraternity of all humans, whereby they would be OK with just the human identity. That was Marx's vision. In total contrast to Zionism.

That's why it's ridiculous when people (Hitler as well) paint socialism as a Jewish conspiracy.