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The Nazis were hunted- by imperialist recruiters.

With the exception of a few very high profile 'sacrifices' to an almost unanimously anti-fascist global public opinion, the Nazis were drafted into service to continue the work- anti communist, imperialist, ultra capitalist- that they had begun in Germany. And Italy. And France, And Finland. And Spain...and everywhere in Europe. And America.

And the men who recruited them were exemplified by the Dulles Brothers, Nazi sympathisers from their earliest days who celebrated the partnerships between US capital and anti-working class thuggery. The politics of the era of Fordism were even more influential than the techincal managerial aspect of the same philosophy.

I did graduate work under one of the very influential academics who emerged from the University of Chicago in the '40s: Bill Letwin was not, so far as I know, a student of Strauss though he was a fan. He was also, notably, a thoroughgoing neo-liberal, as were all the Strauss allies, like Hayek and Popper.

Neo-conservatism is the other side of the neo-liberal coin. Just as capitalism is the other side of the imperial coin. The 'Chicago Boys' in Pinochet's Santiago symbolised the marriage between neo-classical economics and beating trade unionists to death.

What is going on in Gaza is horrific but what it tells us is that imperialism is in deep trouble and trembling on the brink of extinction- it has lost its inhibitions because it sees death approaching and is staking everything on a desperate last throw.

Which is precisely what is happening, in a barely more restrained fashion, in Ukraine. Jabotinsky was from Odessa, I believe and the fascism that he developed was one of several variants that were brewed in the cauldron of the borderlands in the era of Tsardom's collapse and the Russian Civil War.

The support that Israel has got and is getting from the "West" comes from exactly the same politics as that which motivates the European elites- descendants almost to a man of Nazis and Collaborators- to replicate Hitler's Barbarossa strategy.

The signs are that both Israel and the six century old Empire are coming to an end, but if they are not civilisation cannot survive their continuance.

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J. Matson Heininger's avatar

Based on the picture... I think you might appreciate the links in my post about the Straussians. From Sep, 2023. The Neocons In Charge: For too long, over 30 years, and extending 60, and regardless of party, as they shapeshift, and move from Democratic to Republican party, as they infiltrate once great journals like the Atlantic monthly (Jeffrey Goldberg, Davd Frum, George Bush's axis of evil Frum) the Straussians who became the neocons including Bill Kristol, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz and the younger ones Victoria Nuland, and her Kagan husband and family, with their extensive intermarriage associations and social tentacles have been responsible for evil in the United States, and caused the United States to become a Warmonger Nation, and a more worldwide disruptive nation than it might have been.

https://open.substack.com/pub/heininger/p/the-neocons-the-usas-warmonger-nightmare?r=16lm0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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