On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 15:27 +0200, Christoph Reuss wrote: > The similarities between zionism and nazism are indeed striking. > No wonder -- their roots are the same, as are many of their practices and goals.
OK, discussions along this line make me feel uncomfortable, and accusations of anti-semitism have been bandied hereabouts ... But that is an interesting statement, so OK, I'll bite. What are the roots that are the same? I suspect that practices of any regime suppressing another people will be the same, just varied according to technology available at a particular time, as well as what hedging powers may cramp their style. I've never seen the Nazis as particularly qualitatively different from other exterminators at other periods in time, just inevitably more systematic in their ideological and technological aspects compared to what was available in pre industrial revolution societies. For me the question has been - why the Germans (and Japanese) and why not somebody else? The United States pogrom and land theft from the locals comes to mind, and the continuation of slavery into the modern era in other forms - why didn't that get industrialised into death machines (then, one wonders if it might do so now). I'm not expressing this well ... have a nasty fibromyalgia hit having been up all night with puking 3yr old, so have been into the opiates bottle, hence fuzzy brain. _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
