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Jews and Communism
https://arnoldkling.substack.com/ ^ | FEB 17, 2024 | ARNOLD KLING

Posted on 02/17/2024 4:57:10 PM PST by Jonty30

In the collective memory of American Jewry, the entanglement of Jews and Communists merits hardly a footnote.

—Jerry Z. Muller, Capitalism and the Jews, p. 161

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In my own memory as an American Jew, the entanglement of Jews and Communists has more significance.

The Harvard Library houses a document “Investigation of Communist Activities in the St. Louis, Mo. area. Hearing” This was a hearing conducted in St. Louis by the United States House Un-American Activities Committee in June of 1956.

One of the witnesses called was my pediatrician, who was Jewish. Another was my mother, who also was Jewish. She testified that in 1945, at age 22, her primary job was working as a stenographer in the office of the Communist Party in St. Louis.

The woman who became my mother was introduced to my father through his sister. My Aunt Sarah was a Communist, as was her husband, a machinist and labor organizer. My mother testified that she herself quit the Communist Party in 1947. My father convinced her to do that. My aunt and uncle were not wedded to the party, but they never gave up the cause. My uncle put his hopes in the brand of Communism practiced by Tito in Yugoslavia.

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To: linMcHlp

I agree that those on top see socialism as a means to protect their position. They want you to be drained of assets so you can’t get ahead, but they protect themselves by reclassifying their incomes as other terms, like revenue streams or selling their assets to the business and letting the business pay for everything.


21 posted on 02/17/2024 5:56:23 PM PST by Jonty30 (What company makes rubber airplanes? Boeing, Boeing, Boeing.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

“You can’t talk objectively about Hitler because any agreement or praise of Hitler is simply forbidden.”

Oh wow.
Why would any sane person even write that sentence?
You want to give a malignant evil some praise because the railroads ran on time?
What about Stalin or Pol Pot?


22 posted on 02/17/2024 5:57:07 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: ckilmer

Nonsence. While Joseph made a big mistake, it backfired on the Hebrews, GOD fought for Israel, and humiliated the Egxptian “ gods”


23 posted on 02/17/2024 5:59:07 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GFLOBALISM ! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: BobL

No but, Hitler hated Jews because he hated Christianity, and in this case, rightly saw it as Jewish. He wanted to turn the whole world pagan. He was a precursor to the antichrist, who non-believers will follow.


24 posted on 02/17/2024 6:01:43 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GFLOBALISM ! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: Jonty30

Tribal people are often communist. The closer to family, the ideas of shared resources are a no brainer. Communes are everywhere in Israel.


25 posted on 02/17/2024 6:03:10 PM PST by Theoria
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To: HereInTheHeartland
Why would any sane person even write that sentence?

I don't know, probably because the true history of the events that led up to WWII has been covered up or not taught?

You want to give a malignant evil some praise because the railroads ran on time?

What was evil about wanting to preserve your heritage, culture, and country from hyperinflation and decadence?

What about Stalin or Pol Pot?

What about them? They were the true evil people. Communist scum.

26 posted on 02/17/2024 6:04:15 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Free Republic's most controversial and outspoken FReeper)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

A sane person can write that sentence because he’s aware that Hitler was against Kalergi. Kalergi wanted the white European wiped out through mass immigration, just like what is happening in Europe and America today. Kalergi wanted genocide of the native European.

Hitler stood against that. Hitler was evil, no question. However, he understood that not opposing Kalergi would have meant the eventual genocide of the natural born Europeans.

Those who have made a bogey-man out of Hitler, so that you can’t even discuss any aspects of him are using him as a bogey-man to hide their intent to eliminate white people from the earth.


27 posted on 02/17/2024 6:04:34 PM PST by Jonty30 (What company makes rubber airplanes? Boeing, Boeing, Boeing.)
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To: ckilmer

Joseph made a bad mistake. So, did many in the Bible, particularly in the Old Testement. The HOLY SPIRIT did not indwelling belivets yet.


28 posted on 02/17/2024 6:05:29 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GFLOBALISM ! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: cowboyusa
Hitler hated Jews because he hated Christianity

You know that is complete and utter garbage. Germany built hundreds of churches in the 1930s and emphasized a strong cohesive family unit with the Mother remaining at home bearing children.

29 posted on 02/17/2024 6:06:07 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Free Republic's most controversial and outspoken FReeper)
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To: Theoria

Communism only works on the tribal or family level. But it doesn’t work to try and supersize it to society or civilization.


30 posted on 02/17/2024 6:06:32 PM PST by Jonty30 (What company makes rubber airplanes? Boeing, Boeing, Boeing.)
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To: Jonty30

Hitler wanted to eliminate Christianity from the Earrh, he was a precursor to the antichrist. He was demonicly inspired to whipe Kews from the Earth, so that YESHUA could not come back. The devil has many lies all at once


31 posted on 02/17/2024 6:08:44 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GFLOBALISM ! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: Jonty30
I didn't say it was a worthy endeavor, but a natural part of tribal people. A tribe would want such practices, the opposite the higher you go in govt.
32 posted on 02/17/2024 6:09:57 PM PST by Theoria
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Don’t reply to me, you will worship the antichrist if you don’t repent. Then you will face an eternity of fire.


33 posted on 02/17/2024 6:10:26 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GFLOBALISM ! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: cowboyusa

I am also aware that he had his sights on Christianity. I call all socialist variants, which includes fascism, substitute-Christianity. They want the blessings of Judeo-Christianity, without being obligated to it.


34 posted on 02/17/2024 6:10:46 PM PST by Jonty30 (What company makes rubber airplanes? Boeing, Boeing, Boeing.)
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To: cowboyusa

It wasn’t necessarily Joseph’s mistake. Joseph was obedient to the will of the Pharoah. The Pharoah wanted the lands and used the famine to obtain them.


35 posted on 02/17/2024 6:11:47 PM PST by Jonty30 (What company makes rubber airplanes? Boeing, Boeing, Boeing.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Don’t mistake currying political favour with the people as an internal principle that one holds in his heart and mind.

Hitler, like all on the left, had in his targets the elimination of Judeo-Christianity. He just couldn’t carry out his will at the time, but he was building towards it.


36 posted on 02/17/2024 6:13:29 PM PST by Jonty30 (What company makes rubber airplanes? Boeing, Boeing, Boeing.)
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To: Jonty30

Hitler applied Marx’s ideas to race. It is marx who is the greatest monster I’m history so far. His pen lead to the horrors of the 20th Century.


37 posted on 02/17/2024 6:14:03 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GFLOBALISM ! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: Jonty30
Hitler was evil

He was evil only in the context that he was America's enemy and we fought against him. I don't have a problem with that, it's expected, because any debate over Hitler that advocates a contrary position from the approved narrative is unacceptable. He's the most demonized leader in recorded human history.

38 posted on 02/17/2024 6:18:31 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Free Republic's most controversial and outspoken FReeper)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

The Nazis did a few, very few, things right.

1. They had spiffy Hugo Boss, designed uniforms

2. They did a good job economic recovery after the 1929 depression.

3. Given the horrible legacy of suffering, murder and tragedy bequeathed to us from Communist governments, they intervened on the correct side of the Spanish Civil War.

Beyond that, there is not much to admire them for.


39 posted on 02/17/2024 6:19:54 PM PST by Fai Mao (Starve the Beast and steal its food.)
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To: Jonty30
Hitler, like all on the left

He wasn't Left as in Marxist, collectivist Left. He was a National Socialist. He wanted his people to put the family first because that benefited the nation as a whole.

had in his targets the elimination of Judeo-Christianity.

It should just be Christianity anyway.

He just couldn’t carry out his will at the time, but he was building towards it.

You honestly believe that Germany wanted to conquer the world and impose some worldwide White power regime?

40 posted on 02/17/2024 6:23:24 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Free Republic's most controversial and outspoken FReeper)
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