The 'Spectre' of Genocide

[phthisis]

The following is a lengthy excerpt on socialism and racism from George Watson's "The Lost Literature of Socialism" (The Lutterworth Press, Cambridge, pp. 77-80). It's well worth a complete read.

"But it was the issue of race, above all, that for a half a century has prevented National Socialism from being seen as socialist. The assumption that

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[batgirl1536]

whats your email address?

[batgirl1536]

[batgirl1536]

k. thanks.

[phthisis]

Ok, I'm gonna screen my response because only you get to have my e-mail addy.

[square_eyes]

socialist here.

[phthisis]

If the 100 million deaths attributable to regimes calling themselves socialist, clearly adumbrated in the passage quoted in this journal entry, aren't enough, perhaps this quote from Marx will communicate to you why I am not a socialist:

"Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, 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. 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.

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The social emancipation of the Jew is the emancipation of society from Judaism."

-- Marx, "On the Jewish Question"
All of this said, Jews can take pride that the purest form of socialism -- a democratic, non-violent experiment whose collectivist orthodoxy was made wondrous by the uncompromised volition of its adherents -- is theirs: the kibbutz movement. And now, in their third generation, its members are exercising

[square_eyes]

i'm not a marxist, i'm a socialist. i simply cannot abide a society where the rich seem to get richer and the poor only get poorer.

[square_eyes]

poorer isn't a word is it? more poor. there.