Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Terror
From: Johnny Deadman <john@pinkheadedbug.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:55:54 -0400

on 9/13/01 1:12 PM, Adam Bridge at abridge@mac.com wrote:

> I'm pondering the anarchist movement that bombed Europe prior to the WWI.
> I'm going to have to read up on it to understand why and how they worked
> because it seems direct precursor, not in terms of motivation but in the way
> it targeted a society.

yes indeed

one of the things that is worth pondering is that Hitler rose to power
partly on an anti-anarchist, anti-communist ticket -- opposed to exactly the
kind of bohemian riff-raff depicted in CABARET for example.

interestingly, however, like Bin-Laden (and the anarchists he opposed), he
also saw International Capital as a force for evil, which is one reason why
the Nazis called themselves Socialists.

By doing this he managed to appeal to both those who felt the world was in
danger of being over-run by Communists AND those who felt uneasy about the
power of gold - especially Jewish-American gold. Moreover, he combined all
this with a rhetoric of religiosity which offered to make politics a
transcendent experience.

Hitler's politics never really made a great deal of sense on paper but they
were brilliantly effective as political rhetoric.

It was the great misfortune of the Jewish people that they counted among
their number both prominent bankers and prominent revolutionary
intellectuals.


- -- 
John Brownlow

http://www.pinkheadedbug.com

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