NP Willing Executioners?
François Monti
francois at neovoid.org
Wed Sep 28 04:34:20 CDT 2005
Mike Weaver wrote:
>
> As far as I know bolshevism was commonly viewed as a Jewish conspiracy
> only by paranoid anti-Semites.
>
What does this sentence of yours tell us is that you think conspiracy is
for the paranoid, and a Jewish-led one for the anti-semites among them.
Bravo! You might want to note that I never spoke of "conspiracy".
Knowing all the prejudices agains foreign people in France and Belgium
(can't speak about other countries) at the time -Italian are thieves for
example- it shouldn't surprise anyone that the same popular "wisdom"
would say "Jews are bolsheviks".
If you think that Céline was part of a small group of people thinking
that way, you are *very* wrong. By the way, if the article turns out to
really have been written by Churchill -who presented himslef as a
zionist later on in his life- it would go to show that even among people
who weren't rabid anti-semites there were some who bought into this
theory. I for one know that in the french-speaking world it was like
that -hardly surprising only 30 years after the Dreyfus case. I'd be
surprised if it wasn't elsewhere in Europe, but who knows.
--
F.
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