Re: Socialism of fools

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

James Heartfield, a person who Louis P. has a heart-felt dislike also
cites Bebel: A century ago, the German socialist August Bebel exposed
the limitations of another one-sided and illusory criticism of the
market. In his day, the 'predatory' capitalists who were singled out for
special treatment were Jews. Responding to the demotic attacks on
'Jewish capitalism', Bebel denounced this as 'the socialism of fools'.
http://www.vanguardonline.f9.co.uk/0704.htm

COMMENT: How typical of Heartfield to deploy August Bebel on behalf of
GM food. To connect anti-Semitism with attacks on Frankenfood requires a
kind of dexterity and dishonesty that is breathtaking.

Another Louis P. favorite, Todd Gittlin says: The German socialist
August Bebel once said that anti-Semitism was "the socialism of fools."
What we witness now is the progressivism of fools. It is a recrudescence
of everything that costs the left its moral edge. And, appallingly, it
is this contemptible message the anti-Semitic students at San Francisco
State chose to parrot.
<http://www.mojones.com/commentary/columns/2002/06/gitlin_june.html>

COMMENT: There is no anti-Semitism on American campuses to speak of. My
thoughts on the subject are at:
http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/jewish/Botstein.htm



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