Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "“Cultural Marxism:” Anti Semitic Conspiracy?" video.

  1. The Jews were latecomers to the game. He made a good point about Engels, and that leads back to Robert Owen, Henri de Saint-Simon, and Auguste Comte. This ideology was picked up by several Christian sects, which became Christian Socialism and the Social Gospel in the early 1800s. When Christian Socialism made it stateside in the late 1800s at Boston, it was at the Church of the Carpenter (Anglican), and they had the Karl Marx School. The movement begin to fail, so it made its way to NYC, where the Rand School of Social Science was formed, along with social science first being taught at Columbia U, which is Anglican. That's why they were the first to accept the Frankfurt professors, and why Dewey was close to Trotsky. It sounds to me that the author of that article is trying to pigeonhole the Jews as the source, when they weren't.
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  2.  @Anton-rn5zw  It doesn't negate the fact that the Jews weren't the origins of communism. As Engels said, the Anabaptists in Germany were the first communists, and that had also made its way to Britain with groups like the Diggers and Quakers along with other sects that had communal living. Their ideas go back to the days of the protests about the enclosure of the commons, and Thomas More penning Utopia. Most of the Jews picked these ideas up from the universities and trade unions in the Pale of Settlement later on during the pogroms. Just as was mentioned in this video, Marx was the mouthpiece of Engels, a wealthy textile factory owner who looked to increase his profits by using the methods of Robert Owen and Henri de Saint-Simon. Yes, some of them still believe in a utopian society and the kibbutzim, but there are many more who are gentiles that do as well. The problem still lies with the universities and trade unions as the instigators, and they were behind forming the Labour Party in England, and were behind the Progressives in the US. In the Anglican Church, the problem always did lie with the clergy, who were the believers, but not the laity as much. The Presbyterians were no better, and supported it too.
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  3. It wasn't just their particular ethnicity, as many other Europeans and Americans were pushing the same socialist agenda beforehand, especially Christians with Christian Socialism via the Social Gospel. To me, it is the Guardian trying to pigeonhole one ethnicity.
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