On Collectivism

It's happening again. 

Many people loudly proclaim "never again," but they are the people who are going to do it again.

The Holocaust was the result of believing in Racial Collectivism.  The Gulags and The Killing Fields were the result of believing in Class Collectivism, or Marxism as we politely put it . 

All forms of Collectivism must be seen as the vile doctrines they actually are.  The next great horror wil be committed by people who believe they are good people doing good things.  Those people are not in the habit of mentally stepping back and examining their own beliefs along with the actions derived from those beliefs.

On Conservatism

American Conservatives are clearly different from European Conservatives.  Good people will die and decent people will suffer as a result of the lies that are being told about American Conservatives.

On Bad Ideas

On Bad Ideas.

When I was pizza driver I saw a Kerry photo pasted in a car window as it were a sacred icon.  I also saw a yard sign placed on the wall of a union hall as it were a sacred icon.  In fact they weren't sacred icons, they were simply objects.  In fact they were tools for human use.

In Objective Reality one has to mentally step back and look at one's thoughts and actions.  One may not like what they find, but one has to do so.

One thought common in Racial Collectivism is the belief that one is a victim.  When we look at the doctrine of the NSDAP we see that the "Aryans" are the victims of the "Jews."  We're seeing this idea again in BLM with the idea that the "Blacks" are the victims of the "Whites."  (In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the members of BLM dismiss The Holocaust as a White on White action.)

On Racial Collectivism

Those who believe absurdities, such as Racial Collectivism, will commit atrocities.  We saw this before with National Socialists, we're seeing this again with Black Lives Matter.  Why did many horrors (such as The Holocaust, the Killing Fields, and 9/11, etc.) happen?  Because the people who did them were told (or believed) they were good people and doing good things.  We're seeing this again with the members of Anti-Fa and Black Lives Matter. I wouldn't be surprised if members of Black Lives Matter dismiss The Holocaust as a White on White action.  We need to understand that Black Lives Matter is a Racial Collectivist group.  The membership of  Black Lives Matter apparently never understood Dr. King's message, skin color is irrelevant, actions and beliefs (i.e. the content of character) are.  Evil actions will happen because those who do them believe themselves to be good people, this includes members of Anti-fa and Black Lives Matters.  Whenever I see a Black Lives Matter yard sign I feel like a Jew seeing a swastika on an armband or a flag.

Actions

Atrocities (The Holocaust, 9/11, The Killing Fields, etc) are committed by those who believed they were good people doing good things.

On Politicians

Those who can't remember the past are a highly sought after voting bloc for those who value political power.

Qverheard

I overhead a social worker speaking, she was clearly wrong and being taken advantage of.

No act is too vile for those who value Power.  Those who value Power will take advantage of a anyone’s distress.  We have to recall that Karl Marx was one of the most vile men who ever lived.  We also have to recall that Anti-fa and Black Lives Matter are Collectivist organizations.  As we leaned the hard way during the Twentieth Century ( a.k. a., The Century Of Death) Collectivism is clearly a evil ideology.

I'm Repeating Myself

Here's a repost of a very important book review originally published in THE RESISTER.  If you haven't read it, you should.

BOOK REVIEW
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The Ominous Parallels--The End of Freedom in America. Leonard Peikoff. New York: NAL Penguin, Inc., 1982. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 83-60247. ix + 316 pages plus references and index.. Soft cover $10.00.


Reviewed by Red Barchetta

This book asks: "What caused Nazi Germany?" Unlike lesser attempts to explain that blood bath, The Ominous Parallels answers: "The same philosophies that are prevalent in the United States of America." Dr. Peikoff argues convincingly that in both countries the intellectual, educational and political leadership share, explicitly or implicitly, the same core ideologies. These ideologies submit that reality is subjective--a malleable illusion; emotions are the proper guide to human action--especially the emotions of race and the tribe, which cannot be understood by outsiders; self-sacrifice for the sake of others should usurp a man's own desires--and the state must take any necessary action to ensure that sacrifice. These ideologies demand that "individual selfishness" does not obstruct the path of "the public interest."

From Part One, Chapter One: " 'To be a socialist,' says Goebbels, 'is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.' By this definition, the Nazis practiced what they preached. They practiced it at home and then abroad. No one can claim that they did not sacrifice enough individuals."

The underlying theme in The Ominous Parallels is how philosophy shapes cultures, and reading this book, it is difficult to escape a feeling of hopeless dread; of being caught in racing floodwaters and swept madly toward a destruction you are helpless to prevent. Given the theme of this nation's descent into fascism, and Dr. Peikoff's uncompromising method of proving it, that is the proper effect.

The conclusion of The Ominous Parallels is not that we are helplessly destined to go to the same lengths down the same road as Germany. The conclusion is that it is time for us to choose whether or not we will; that if we fail to consciously decide, the decision will be made for us. Contrary to the bleating of irrationalists then or now, it is only a coherent philosophy of reason and individual rights which will give us the means to choose not to become our own slaughterhouse.

Dr. Peikoff shows that such a philosophy is not prevalent in the United States because, although this nation was unique in being founded on philosophic ideals (rather than arbitrary land-grabs and tribal warfare), it was ultimately lacking a coherent detailed formulation of those ideals, as well as the Aristotelian philosophers to create one. Independence from Europe was only won physically--not ideologically. "The land of poets and philosophers was brought down by its poets and philosophers," says Peikoff. The resulting bowel movement of docile Nazi sheep who obeyed their Fuhrer because they obeyed their philosophers could indeed be us, for their philosophers--their pragmatists and Kants, their Hegels and Marxes--are ours
by adoption.

We do have one trump card, "...the philosophical breach between the American people and the intellectuals." In Germany, the intellectuals and the people were united in ideology, feeling at home in their country and with each other. This, says Peikoff, is not yet the case in America. Peikoff's book will help to keep it that way.

A  shorter version of the book, titled The Cause Of Hitler's Germany is now in print,

Top Story

The top story this weekend is arrest of Ghislane Maxwell.  It’s impossible for an inmate of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City to commit suicide.  With the failure of the surveillance system and the sleeping of the guards the obvious conclusion to a rational person was that Jeffery Epstein was murdered, but the death was reported by Main Stream Media as a suicide.

Will the death Ghislane Maxwell in custody be reported by the Main Stream Media as a suicide?

Who needs a Joseph Goebbels and his Reichministry when the Main Stream Media will voluntarily lie?