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The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements

The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great Study in the Impact of Radical Critique on the USA
Review: Read this book, and you will develop an understanding of why the west is in such trouble regarding: the loss of family/cultural values, the unrestricted immagration of the underclasses of other nations, and the general wreck of Western Civilization and its historic values.

I cannot say enough good things about this book- plus, it is a easy book to read!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Hmm. So the Jews are in a conspiracy to deconstruct America?
Review: That's funny, especially being that so many seem to be totally intermarrying with non-Jews, seem to really love America, defend America, and seem to be making fun of the postmodern/lit crit/deconstruction crowd in academia along with everyone else. Can we knock it off with the conspiracy theories please?

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Tendentious hatemongering
Review: The author seems to have done much research, but he also seems to have fallen into the deductive trap of "after the fact, therefore because of the fact". That Jews are successful in many fields of endeavor does not mean that they have arranged with each other to succeed for the purpose of advancing "Jewish interests".

Someone who disliked, for example, men of Anglo-Saxon origin or members of any of several other groups, could easily find source material to make a much stronger case that people of some other group have networked with each other in order to advance various philosophies and institutions which benefit their interests.

Accordingly, I cannot help but wonder why the author has picked out--picked on--the Jews. Could it be because Jews have traditionally been the scapegoats for whom the discontented blame almost every intellectual idea or social or political philosophy with which they disagree?

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This Psychologist has "Great Balls of Fire"
Review: The most important work written in the last 50 years. A must read in understanding the vexing questions that will repeat itself in the future.


Rating: 5 stars
Summary: First rate scholarship, first rate courage, go together
Review: The title of this commentary says it. The professor has pursued his subject with the integrity of a true scientist, and delivered truth to us on a platter. Unfortunately most U.S. citizens will swallow anything but the truth...they've been conditioned by decades of propaganda. They don't even care if their presidents lie anymore. But those who still value honor and honesty - here's a book for you!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Twisted Stuff
Review: This book is a bit sweeping in its assessments... powerless Anglo-Saxons? The very existence of Dick Cheney would seem to belie the authors thesis.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Worthy Read
Review: This book is a worthy read, an intriguing piece that deserves inspection. As to the evidential validity of the statements represented within it, I cannot attest--however, I can attest that this work will challenge your perceptions, and will force you to ponder the recent history of the Jewish people. It is worth reading for that alone.

You can ignore reviewers who label this work 'anti-semitic.' They are merely representative of the larger intellectual establishment, which would smear a work by labelling it 'racist,' 'sexist,' or 'anti-semitic' rather than debate its scientific value.



Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Amazing book!!!
Review: This book is absolutely amazing! It opened my eyes to the fact that Jews have been using an evolutionary group strategy to advance their group interests, at the expense of us non-jews, especially whites.

It is fascinating and eye opening material. I am ordering his other books as well!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: First the West, now Islam
Review: This book presents a scenario of ethnic and racial strategies designed, consciously or otherwise, to give one group dominance over another - Jews over Christians, and the Jewish race over white European gentiles. To look at the West now, and the corrupting influence 20th century Jewish thinkers have had on it, which is the focus of Professor MacDonald's COC, it looks like the Jews have won over white gentiles, now a generally submissive race that often acquiesces to strategies detrimental to its survival, such as warring in the Middle East--basically for whose benefit? It looks like Islam is next, and that taking the land the Palestinians were living on heralded the first bold move on Islam. Though both Arabs and Jews are semitic, the latter excludes the former as belonging to the same race. The Jews still have their Babylonian Talmud, which they brought with them to the West, which despises all non-Jews (to put it mildly). MacDonald also explores the religious roots of this racial aggression that makes it a very important read for anyone wanting to understand what is going on in an increasingly bellicose world.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Interesting, misleading
Review: This book, like MacDonald's other two on the same subject, handles a striking, controversial phenomenon that many people would rather not talk about, but his approach is crippled by his sociobiological framework. Since Israelites-Jews have been a distinct people for at least three millennia, and there were strong habits in *traditional* (not modern) Jewish society that led to high emphasis on intellectual ability and strong external pressures to perform well in certain economic niches, many of MacDonald's ideas should be no surprise at all. They are staples of Jewish history and folklore alike. Attempts by leftist-activist-idiots to name-call and defame anyone for discussing this are just politically-correct intimidation and censorship. Many of those pushing sociobiology and genetic studies of human characteristics are Jews.

The real problem is that MacDonald projects many modern tendencies (say, over the last 150 years) in modern Jewish and Western history back into all of Jewish history. Sociobiology takes something very specific to the modern West and the United States and tries to turn it into an "eternal" Jewish "condition". The tendencies MacDonald points out (attempts by leftist Jews and their non-Jewish allies to "pathologize" normal gentile and Christian culture) are very recent. They arise from a peculiar dilemma of modern secular Jews: without traditional Jewish religious belief and culture, it is very difficult to maintain a distinctive Jewish subculture in a pretty free gentile culture that makes assimilation easy. One way out is to move to Israel. But another is the tack of some of the major secular Jewish organizations: fabricated hysteria about antisemitism in order to build a mental ghetto and keep American Jews in fear. Many American Jews (at least in older generations) actively support this tactic as the only way to maintain Jewish identity. This is a dilemma peculiar to the modern West and especially America. It wasn't present in 18th-century Poland or 15th-century Spain or 9th-century Baghdad or 1st-century Alexandria or 4th-century-BCE Babylon. That's the problem with sociobiology: it takes someone's cultural and historical ignorance and turns it into "genetics".

As for leftism, most leftist Jews until well after 1945 did not become leftists in order to spread Judaism or preserve Jews as a people; on the contrary, they desperately wanted to assimilate, but were unlucky enough to be trapped in societies (especially in Eastern Europe, but also Germany and western countries to some extent) that rebuffed their attempts to assimilate. So social revolution seemed to provide an alternative solution to their particular "Jewish problem". Of course it wasn't. There were other, better solutions (Zionism, immigrating to more liberal countries). Such hard-left Jews were almost all hostile to traditional Judaism and Zionism; many of them still are. Also, few of the Bolsheviks were Jews, another myth that needs to be exploded. Russian Jewish revolutionaries were usually social democrats or, sometimes, anarchists.

Modern leftism is a degenerate parody of Christianity and started in France, not among the "elders of Zion". The most successful form of state-collectivism was achieved in Germany. Many of the "cultural leftist" issues roiling America today are promoted as eagerly by gentile leftists, mostly driven by self-hatred and unearned guilt. Not that there aren't peculiarly Jewish versions of self-hatred and unearned guilt that dovetail with more general leftist tendencies. But that's another story :)


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