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To: michael97123 who wrote (102842)	6/25/2003 4:01:02 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 281500

Yes, it was all a plot, capitalists, communists, whatever. The problem is that the reality is partially interpreted in the light of history. It is impossible to ignore completely.

To: michael97123 who wrote (102842)	6/25/2003 4:14:08 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

>>By the way Hitler nailed the jews as both communists and capitalist exploiters.<< Hitler was an uneducated man who swallowed whole the urban myths of his era, but he wasn't 100% wrong. Many important Communists were Jewish at least by birth, e.g., Karl Marx, Trotsky, Zinoviev. Lenin had a little Jewish blood. Admittedly too much has been made of this but it wasn't completely beside the mark. Neither was the allegation of Jewish capitalists. Certainly they were outnumbered by Christian capitalist by 1933, but many of the early bankers and money-lenders were Jewish due to Christian admonitions against charging interest. Hitler hated both communists and capitalist, and he hated Jews worst of all, so the combination drove him particularly berserk. But the allegation that Jewish communists and Jewish capitalists were working together is rather silly. Jewish capitalists did fund, heavily, Jewish settlements in Palestine, which included kibbutzes. I think that's about as far as the cooperation went.