Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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