The Jews played a prominent role in the ideological formulation and
actualization of two of the three main fascist movements of the twentieth
century – Soviet Communism and Italian Fascism. With Lenin’s death in
January 1924, three Jews and a Georgian took control of Russia: Lev
Bronstein, Grigory Radomilski, Lev Rosenfeld, and Joseph Dzugashvilli.
They are better known by their Soviet names – respectively: Trotsky,
Zinoviev, Kamenev, Stalin. The heads of the CHEKA, the NKVD, and up to the
KGB were mostly Jews, from Moses Solomonovitch Uritzky to Genrikh Yagoda
to Andropov. Yakov Ginzburg (Sverdlov), who supervised the expulsion of
the Czar’s family to Yekaterinburg in the Ural Mountains and their slaying
there, as well as the commander of the unit that carried out the
slaughter, who shot the Czar in the forehead from a range of zero, one
Yakov Yurovski – were Jews.
The proportion of Jews involved in the creation, planning, and management
of the Gulag Archipelag and forced-labor camps was much higher than their
proportion in the Party elite, where in any case they held a considerable
part of the key positions. Names such as Aron Solts, Yacov Rappoport,
Lazar Kogan, Matvei Berman, and Naftaly Frenkel still strike terror in the
hearts of Gulag veterans. The role of Lazar Kaganovitch in the
organization of the camps for people who were kidnapped for slave labor,
and also in the “collectivization” process that brought the death of
millions, is among the most notorious.
Jews such as Angelica Balabanoff had a decisive influence on the formation
of the spiritual world of Mussolini in his leftist-anarchist period.
Another example is that of Margareta Sarfatti (who edited Gierarchia,
el Duce’s fascist organ). Five Jews (A. Finzi, J. Pontremoli, A.
Jarach, E. Jona, C. Sarfatti) were among the founders of the fascist
nucleus of the “War Organization” (Fasci di combattimento) in March
1919. Those who formulated the socio-economic concept of Italian fascism –
“the state of corporations” – both on the ideological and practical
levels, were predominantly Jews. Thus, for example, Guido Jung, finance
minister and a senior member of the Supreme Fascist Council. Thus also
Guido Arias, the senior ideologue of the socio-economic concept of
fascism; L. Toeplitz, the chief banker of Italy; and Otto Herman Kahan, a
great admirer of el Duce and one of the pillars of banking and
American philanthropy. The hard-core of Mussolini’s economic advisers
strictly consisted of three Jewish senators (H. Ancona, A. Luria, T.
Meyer). Indeed, not for nothing did Alfred Rosenberg call Mussolini “Judenknecht”
(Jewish lackey).
The student rebellion of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United
States and France was also mainly an expression of Jewish radicalism. Emma
Goldman, the Jewish anarchist of the early twentieth century, known for
her analysis of sexual repression in the context of the theories of
Sigmund Freud and Wilhelm Reich, is undoubtedly the mother of the
anarchist movements and of the 1960s slogan “Make love, not war.” In the
1950s the bridge between Goldman’s anarchism and the coming student
rebellion was Abraham Maslow, a leftist radical who developed his own
version of psychoanalysis that he termed “humanistic psychology”. Maslow
is the philosopher of communal living and the spiritual father of
Abraham (Abbie) Hoffman, Betty Friedan, Lenny Bruce (Leonard Schneider),
Bob Dylan (Zimmerman), and Jerry Rubin – to mention only some of the Jews
who were leaders of the student rebellion at that time.
The student rebellion in the United States, which in France wore the guise
of Gauchisme or Extreme Gauche, was indeed, as the
right-wing media in France called it, a “Jewish rebellion”. At the same
time the Jews constituted slightly over 1 percent of the entire population
of France. Their proportion among students was 6 percent. Yet their
proportion among the leading activists of the student rebellion came to
more than a third. Within a more limited list that includes 29 names in
the senior leadership echelon, at least 17, or 60 percent, are Jews. Among
the four official leaders – Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Alain Krivine, Alain
Geismar, and Jacques Sauvageot – only the last was non-Jewish. We may also
note that the leadership echelon of the Trotskyite and Maoist
organizations, such as the Communiste Revolutionnaire Ligue
and the Proletarienne La gauche, consisted solely of Jews, with the
help of a Sabbath goy here and there.
As one would expect, the common denominator of all these groups was (and
remains) a sweeping hostility toward Zionism. This reflects the
cosmopolitan principle that lies at the ideological foundation of the
Jewish left. Israel’s victory in the Six Day War raised this hostility to
levels of hatred among the various anarchistic organizations (e.g., Noam
Chomsky’s pathological hatred of Israel).
Within Jewish radicalism one may distinguish two trends that ostensibly
contradict each other. One trend is found in democratic societies and
preaches the destruction of the national frameworks, the establishment,
and the family. Emma Goldman and George Steiner manifest this aspect of
nihilism, which views the nation-state as the root of all evil (Steiner),
and liberation from the shackles of the family together with sexual
permissiveness as the true realization of human freedom (Goldman). In
tyrannical societies, Jewish radicalism blends well with tendencies of
extreme nationalism and repression of individual freedom. Thus in Soviet
Russia, thus in fascist Italy. The Jewish left has imported both trends to
Israel. The Peace Now movement is the faithful expression of this
mind-set, which impels it toward the destruction of Zionism. The great
irony of the Israeli case is that the process of self-destruction goes
hand in hand with devotion to the establishment of another state on
Israel’s ruins. And not just a state, since the population in question
already enjoys sovereign self-expression in the country where it
constitutes a decisive majority, Jordan. Nevertheless, the selective
blindness, a historical thought, and public demagoguery remain, then and
always, the essence of Jewish radicalism.
Arieh Stav
