(06-18-2020 08:35 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote: the Jews of the Frankfurt School that wanted to genocide European Christians nor the Nazis who used their playbook against them.
Hmmm. Lots of stuff to sort through in that one.
If by “Jews” you simply mean someone who is born of Jewish parents, then yeah, the people who led the Frankfurt School were undeniably that. But it would be just as true — and much more to the point, IMHO — to describe them as “the
Communists of the Frankfurt School...” Those men weren’t in Frankfurt to raise money for Zionist charities. They didn’t create the School in order to study the Torah. They were dedicated
Communists (every one of them) of an academic bent who wanted to stir Germany’s political pot in a pro-Soviet direction. Their Jewish background no doubt was a formative experience in their life, but to identify them as simply “the Jews of the Frankfurt School” obscures their true mission.
“wanted to genocide European Christians” — evidence? What they wanted was to transform European Christians into European Communists, just as they themselves had already transformed from European Jews into European Communists. When discussing this part of history, we should always keep in mind that Communism was (for its most ardent followers) much more than just a political doctrine or an economic theory. It was a substitute religion for the one that had been abandoned. This helps explain why, during Stalin’s show-trials, the defendants (once broken) would so frequently cast their “confessions“ in religious terms of sin/heresy. The Communists of the Frankfurt School were evangelists for Communism, and Germany/Poland was their intended mission-field.
“the Nazis who used
their playbook against them” — some truth in that, but let’s be clear about the pronoun “their”. The Nazis did, indeed, look to the Communist leaders (Lenin/Stalin) as their role-models in terms of how to gain/keep power. And the willingness of Lenin/Stalin to eliminate thousands or even millions of people — whose existence represented some sort of threat to their political dreams — was in some ways a dress-rehearsal for Hitler’s Holocaust later on. As Communists, the Frankfurt School bears some moral culpability for that. Not the culpability of a perpetrator, but the culpability of a propagandist/shill. That distinction can be hard to see sometimes, but it’s still there, IMHO. And so I’d argue the Nazis studied and expanded the “Lenin/Stalin playbook“, not the (for example) “Pollock/Lukács playbook”.