The left and anti-Semitism
Posted: June 17, 2010
1:00 am Eastern
By Chuck Morse
© 2010
The last time the left was this excited over a fascist regime was in 2002, when Baghdad Jim McDermott, a liberal Democratic congressman from Washington, sang the praises of the Baath Socialist Saddam Hussein while spinning anti-American conspiracy theories during a visit to Baghdad on the eve of the war. McDermott and his left-wing cohorts intoned a distinctive type of overblown atrocity propaganda back then, directed not against Saddam Hussein and his thugs, but rather against their own homeland, the good old U.S. of A. The same intonations are now being heard from the same types, not against the Hamas terrorists in Gaza, but against Israel.
What are the origins of this inexplicable love affair between the so-called progressive left and the many bloodthirsty dictators and movements they have rallied around over the past century, most recently the Iraqi Baathists and Hamas? Regarding Hamas, the origin stems back to the attitude toward Jews as expressed by Karl Marx, the founding father of the left, in his 1846 anti-Semitic book "On the Jewish Question."
In that infamous book, Marx asks the reader to "consider the actual, worldly Jew – not the Sabbath Jew, but the everyday Jew. Let us not look for the secret of the Jew in his religion, but let us look for the secret of his religion in the real Jew."
Then Marx lets us in on the secret:
"What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money."
Marx then offers us a practical and logical means to deal with what he sees as the main obstacle standing in the way of his manufactured socialist political faith:
"Very well then! Emancipation from huckstering and money, consequently from practical, real Judaism, would be the self-emancipation of our time."
Calling all Hitlers! Calling all Hitlers!
Over time, and with an increasing level of sophistication and considerable advances in public relations, the socialist left replaced the Jew with the greedy capitalist owner of private property. Thus, instead of emancipating human society of the Jew, in their demented drive toward a utopian worldwide ant colony, the scientific-minded socialist left would seek to emancipate society from the private owner of property and business.
Thus Marx's Jew has re-emerged in modern times in the form of the state of Israel in the minds of the left as they find common cause with the real enemy of Israel and the Western democracies, the radical Islamists.
The qualities Marx assigns to the Jew in his book, tracts of which were virtually plagiarized by fellow socialist Adolf Hitler in his book "Mein Kampf," qualities such as practicality, self-interest, hard work and the desire to personally benefit from individual achievement are also the very same qualities that drive the average American and American society. Come to think of it, perhaps this might explain this inexplicable and instinctive hatred the left seems to hold for America and its free markets.
It has become quite fashionable in left circles to sing the praises of Hamas and to blame Israel, in accusatory and libelous language that mimics tracts by Marx and Hitler, for the suffering of the people of Gaza. Israel stands accused of engaging in "collective punishment" by those who so admire collectivism. The pretense that the "freedom" flotilla has anything to do with humanitarian aid has been virtually discarded as the radical left-wing "Free Gaza" group, supported by homegrown American terrorist and tenured professor William Ayers. A member of this group referred to Tel Aviv as "occupied Palestine" on my radio program recently.
The fact that the Gaza blockade would stop tomorrow and that relations between Israel and Gaza would normalize if Hamas stopped firing thousands of missiles into Israel, stopped stockpiling weapons smuggled in through tunnels and stopped sending suicide bombers on missions to kill Jews is ignored. This is because this basic truth just doesn't fit into the ideological agenda and its goals.
Chuck Morse is the author of "The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism: Adolf Hitler and Haj Amin Al-Husseini."
Chuck Morse is an accomplished author of several books dealing with issues affecting Israel. He is a renowned radio talk show host where he co-hosts “The Fairness Doctrine” along with Dr. Patrick O’Heffernan in his home region of New England and was a candidate for US Congress in the 4th District of Massachusetts in 2004. An author and syndicated columnist, he’s authored several titles and his writings have been published into several compilations.
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