| A | B |
| Exchange value | Use value |
| Gold | Blood |
| Circulation | Production |
| Abstraction | Concrete immediacy |
| Reason | Instinct |
| Desert | Forest |
| Intellect | Soul |
| Zivilsation | Kultur |
| Merchant | Entrepreneur |
| International socialism and international capitalism | National socialism |
Mostly A's: You are the Jewish Geist.
Mostly B's: You are German technology.
Although I'm half-Jewish, I think I prefer forest to desert and use value to exchange value. But, on the other hand, I do prefer abstraction to concrete immediacy, reason to instinct, intellect to soul, and - perhaps decisively - international socialism to National Socialism.
You certainly don't get much sense from Werner Sombart's Wikipedia page that he was in fact a fairly committed anti-Semite who even disliked department stores because he thought their "crass juxtapositions" were a product of Jewish sensibilities.
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