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Patrick Buchanan and the perils of forgetfulness

June 16, 2008 - 8:13 am - by Roger Kimball
john thames
2011-05-28 10:51:01

Dear Hans:

You confuse my limited typing skills with my grammar. You need less epistemological nonsense and more grounding in facts. I have both the facts and the analytical ability that you lack. Here is one more example.

THE REAL PROOF OF JEWISH COMPLICITY IN COMMUNISM

Although Jews have evolved some rather clever techniques for explaining away their complicity in Communism, the proofs of that complicity are not hard to find. Two of the best proofs are: (1) the Yiddish Communist press and (2) the Jewish agricultural settlements in Russia. Anyone who has studied the Communist press pre-World War Two knows that it was disproportionately published in Yiddish world wide. That would certainly indicate a Jewish connection with Communism. The flourishing of Jewish Communist agricultural collective farms in Ukraine, the Crimea and especially the Birobidzhan project in Siberia also demonstrate the Jewish Communist connection.

Anti-Communists sometimes put too much faith in lists of Jewish commissars. Although there is little doubt that Jews were disproportionately involved in the Soviet commissariats at all levels, lists can be disputed on many grounds, not the least of which is the fact that lists are constantly changing, as are percentages of ethnicity. Thus, one list may be adjusted by including some names but not others. Lists then, are indicative but not determinative. Consistent sympathies based on ethnicity all over the globe are much more reliable.

Jews know that their sympathies have always been consistently pro-Communist for decades. This fact is much more damaging to them than Jewish names in the commissariats. When the largest circulation Communist magazine in the United States is the Morning Freiheit, published in Yiddish, with a circulation of thousands, that fact is much harder to explain away than the fact that seven out of ten gulag commissars in the 1930’s were Jews. An individual Jew with Communist sympathies means nothing. But if the student of the subject notices a Yiddish Communist newspaper in Buenos Aires named Der Royter Shtern (The Red Star) or notices that the American Communist Party always had a publication entitled Jewish Affairs, then that commonality of language and ethnicity is much more convincing.

An individual Jew who moves from New York to Moscow to practice Communism proves nothing. But when thousands of Jews move from Canada, America and Argentina to the Soviet Far East in response to the siren call of Joseph Stalin, that fact is very indicative of pro-Communist sympathies. American Birobidzhan Committee (Ambijan) and the Canadian ICOR (Jewish Colonization Society for Russia) were not organizations of just a few Jews. They were mass organizations including thousands of Jews all over North America loyally committed to the hammer and sickle. The Joint Distribution Committee and the Agri-Joint were not minor community councils. They were lavishly funded organizations headed by the luminaries of Jewry. These organizations expended major funds establishing Jewish collective farms in Soviet Russia.

These are the real facts that establish the Jewish Communist connection. These are the facts that should be hammered on, again and again, not whether Lavrenti Beria was Armenian or Jewish.