Re: Chavez as anti-Semite?

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

 At 17:02 09/01/2006, Max S wrote:
And the SID (Socialists in Denial) award goes to . . .

Leigh:  > He's talking about the decendants of the people
  who crucified christ... the ROMANS.<

here's what ML posted, in more readable form:

On 1/9/06, michael a. lebowitz <mlebowit@xxxxxx wrote:
Why SID, Max? Do you know something beyond what a zionist news agency
has circulated?
 Here's a note I posted to Marxmail when Louis posted his note:

 I sent the following off to a friend who asked about the charge
 being  circulated:
 -----------
          Don't believe that crap.
 It's clear that Chavez meant the
 capitalists (given Jesus's role as first socialist revolutionary and
 Judas as the first capitalist). If I recall correctly, Chavez was
 speaking at a refuge for street kids the day before Christmas
 (apparently a very inspiring speech-- I was in Chile at the time).
 Here's the quote:

<http://www.ww4report.com/node/1426#comment-4211?
translation  of relevant passage Submitted by
 <http://www.ww4report.com/user/3>
David Bloom on Sat,  12/31/2005 - 15:12.

 "The world has enough for everyone, then, but it turns out that some
 minorities, the descendants of the same ones who crucified Christ,
 the descendants of the same ones who threw Bolivar out of here and
 also crucified him in their own way in Santa Marta, over there in
 Colombia. A minority seized ownership of the wealth of the world, a
 minority seized ownership of the gold of the planet, of the silver,
 of the minerals, of the waters, of the good lands, the oil, of the
 wealth, basically, and the riches have been concentrated in few
 hands: less than 10% of the population of the world owns more than
 half the riches of the whole world...." (Trans: Weekly News Update
 on the Americas

 http://home.earthlink.net/~nicadlw/wnuhome.html
 http://home.earthlink.net/~nicadlw/wnuhome.html)

 Michael A. Lebowitz

my comment:
I don't think that the Romans -- who were the ones who crucified
Christ -- were capitalists, but the Roman slave-owners were the ruling
class of the day.
--
Jim Devine
"The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an
intimate knowledge of its ugly side." -- James Baldwin