The Brown Book

Undated

Overview

Wagner treats possession as largely accidental and questions inherited claims to property. The note includes an antisemitic allegation about Jewish influence over legislation.

Content

Undated:

Strictly speaking, we all come disinherited into the world: possession is chance; no one has a right to it, except land-owning aristocracy — from conquest; but even this has become blurred, and what the Jew covets, he can have, — he has only to pass the appropriate laws, which, as we see of course, he manages to do so easily, especially in the German Reichstag.