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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