Tag: the holocaust

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Robert O. Paxton
The Anatomy of Fascism
New York: Random House, 2003

When it is pointed out to someone on the political Left that socialism and communism have never worked anywhere ever, there is a standard reply; it wasn’t the right kind. Let’s give it one more try, they plead. This time it will work out. Why, then, should we not make the same claim about fascism? Hitler and Mussolini? Woefully incompetent poseurs, one a monomaniac, the other a narcissist. We can then echo our Leftist opponent’s riposte and apply it to fascism. Let’s give it one more try. This time it will work out. (more…)

Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and their poodle, Basket

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Part 1 here.

Barbara Will devotes considerable space to pondering the relationship between Stein’s Jewish identity and her far-Right views.

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Heidegger on a country path, 1966.

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That whereof we cannot speak we must remain silent. — Last line of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

The rest is silence. — Shakespeare, Hamlet

Berel Lang
Heidegger’s Silence
Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 2018

Martin Heidegger’s association with the Nazis is well documented. Having come to Hitler’s attention as Germany’s leading academic, the philosopher was elected to the position of Rector of Freiburg University on April 21, 1933. (more…)

Aesop Tells his Fables by Johann Michael Wittmer. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

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As discussed in Part 2, the primary issue in Plato’s Atlantis story is the cyclical nature of time. Questions of close secondary importance are what do stories, regardless of their veracity, tell about how people see themselves and others? What are their values? What stories should we tell?

Plato has Critias’ grandfather claim that if Solon hadn’t had to focus on politics and war instead of poetry that he would have surpassed Homer, especially if he had been able to finish the Atlantis story. Thus, the Iliad and Odyssey became the most beloved stories of ancient Greece rather than Atlantis could have been determined by the dimly remembered geopolitics of the Archaic period. (more…)

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We are all suffering from Nazi fatigue. Donald Trump is celebrating a decade of being “literally Hitler,” and will apparently soon be putting immigrants into camps. In Britain, young schoolchildren are shown timelines linking Mussolini, Hitler, and Nigel Farage, and showing how the first two lead inexorably to the Reform UK leader. The rest of us on the Right are just plain Nazis, although one consolation is that if we are, at least we get to wear cool clothes. (more…)

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A new survey from Ireland released ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day last week suggests that around 9% of young Irish people aged 18-29 don’t believe the Holocaust ever took place at all, whilst 19% believe its extent to have been exaggerated. (more…)

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“The Holocaust” has come to mean the mass killing of Jewish civilians by Germany during the Second World War. In Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Politisches Testament” (My Political Testament) dictated on April 29, 1945, the day before his suicide, there is a passage that seems to mention and justify the Holocaust.

The German original reads: (more…)

Książkę Grega Johnsona Nowej Prawicy przeciw Starej Prawicy można kupić tutaj.

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English original here; also Spanish

Część 13 (Rozdział 1, Rozdział 10, Rozdział 12)

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Biali nacjonaliści muszą radzić sobie z holocaustem tak, jak musimy radzić sobie z całym problemem żydowskim.

Jałowym jest skupianie się tylko na obronie interesów białych i ignorowanie Żydów po prostu dlatego, że Żydzi nie odwdzięczą się za tę przysługę. Może nie wybrałeś sobie Żydów na wrogów, ale oni wybrali już ciebie. (more…)

Ausländer Raus!

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Many dramatic events are ongoing in the world today. Greg Johnson was joined by Angelo Plume (Telegram, YouTube) on the most recent broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio to analyze them and figure out what they mean from the perspective of pro-white identity politics, and also answered listener questions. It is now available for download and online listening. (more…)

Tereska Torrès, the actual author of Anne Frank’s diary? (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)

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For [the Polish Jews], there is only one solution to the Jewish question in the world, and that is their own country. They don’t want a host country, however good it may be. They want to be a normal nation among the others, because up to now the world has not understood that there is “neither Greek nor Jew,” but only human beings, all equal in their misfortunes, their weaknesses, and greatnesses, all capable of the same horror as of the same heroic deeds, because up to now the world has entrenched itself behind numerous groups, which are becoming more and more numerous, each one enclosing itself twice over, living in mistrust and doubt against its neighbor. (more…)

Bolshevism Without a Mask, National Socialist propaganda poster (1937)

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Travis LeBlanc dropped a lot of wisdom and perspective on us regarding the Second World War and the Jewish Holocaust in two recent essays for Counter-Currents. Judging from the comments in response to them, it seems the Counter-Currents readership is well aware of this and appreciates his efforts. I certainly do. Although he expressed a fair number of historical opinions regarding the world wars, his main thrust was to discourage what he calls “spergery,” or how the excessive, specialized interest in the Second World War among dissidents can quickly drive a political movement into the weeds. Or even cause it to crack up altogether through absurd purity spiraling: (more…)

Photo courtesy of Ali Madad Sakhirani on Pexels.

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In my last essay, I discussed my distaste for spergery about the Second World War. As I was writing it, there’s one argument that I thought to address but then didn’t for reasons of narrative flow. But on second thought, I believe this argument deserves its own piece, because it is relevant to events that are unfolding across the world.

The key to understanding Nazi fetishism is to know that it is a kind of fandom. You cannot understand the Nazi fetishist if you try to examine him through an ideological lens. They are like fans of Lord of the Rings or Star Wars: They have all these cool, badass characters and loads of esoteric lore to sperg out on (“You won’t believe the indignities the German people had to suffer when the French occupied the Ruhr valley!”). (more…)

Anne Frank passport photo, May 1942. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.)

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If we examine Levin’s career, the following portrait emerges: An extremely thoughtful and talented creator. A man with a strong fighting spirit. A hardcore Jew who moved all the way from the U.S. to Palestine . . . Hard-line Zionist. A professional who mixes false information with real information, produces and disseminates propaganda films and books under the guise of documentaries, and directs public opinion. (more…)