Marxism or Engelsism

Marx and Engels collaborated so closely in most of their work that it is difficult to make out individual ideas of either of them. But it was more in Engels’ nature to efface his own ideas and to promote Communist ideas as that of Marx.
It is important to note that Engels had a different background from most of his associates, including Marx. First, he was not a Jew. Second, his social class could probably be described as “ultrabourgeois”. He loved dressing well, hunting, and had elegant manners. For the Jewish clique which was conspiring to create the virulent and antilogical ideas which would later become known as Marxism, a sophisticated non-Jew like Engels was a prize catch.
For his part, Engels was given to occasional anti-Semitic outbursts. Consider: “I begin to understand French anti-Semites when I see how the Polish Jews with German names everywhere worm themselves in, take liberties and everywhere push forward until they dominate public opinion in [Paris].”
Also, in an attitude typical of pan-Germanism, Engels was dismissive of the national aspirations of Slavic peoples. He considered the Slavs as a “people without a history” and to be incapable of self-government. “They are peoples who were either already under foreign rule when they entered into the first primitive phase of civilisation or who were actually forced into earliest phase of civilisation by their foreign masters.”
When it came to the active promotion of communism, it was Engels who led the way. Marx was often sick and at home whereas the political battles were fought by Engels.
If Engels had not been so self-effacing, it would most likely have been him and not Marx by whose name the new philosophy would be called.

The final aim of all love intrigues, be they comic or tragic, is really of more import than all other ends in human life. What it all turns upon is nothing less than the composition of the next generation. It is not the weal or woe of any one individual, but that of the human race to come which is here at stake.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

The real enemy

The happiest day that might be foreseen by the American taxpayer is that on which his miserable representatives in Government begin to live in physical fear for their lives and persons and give some consideration to the constituency for whom their contempt is commensurate with their availability to looting. An American Congressman fleeing from a mob of taxpayers while his house burned would be the heartening sight of a lifetime. An election every four years isn’t as effectual as would be the assassination of a legislator every four minutes, because the enemy isn’t only in Moscow. He’s much nearer at home.

Lucius Beebe
San Francisco Chronicle
July 10, 1961

Homosexuals and criminals

Some psychologists say that the criminal personality is learned and not inherited. The criminal, as a young person, acquires a particular ideology of society which gives him a warped view of morals. Through his experiences and associations with other criminals this picture is gradually enforced. Thus he knows deep down that he is wrong and this brings a sense of guilt. But he concocts a false image of reality in order to clear away guilt. This can also be said of homosexuals. But the important difference is that the criminal usually has a marginal sense of honor and somehow values courage. But the homosexual, in contrast to this, has no sense of honor. In referring to persons of normal sexual orientation as ‘breeders’, the homosexual betrays his sense of contempt for whatever is noble.
Let us take the case of Socrates. Legend says that Alcibiades, who was of renowned physical beauty, devised a scheme to glean some of Socrates’ wisdom by seducing him. Socrates denied the offer and said that his wisdom and the young man’s moral improvement were of infinitely more value than his own pleasure. Thus the proposition was not a fair deal. The point is that we do not find even a trace of themodern homosexual mindset in Socrates. What is the reason for that? Possibly it was that homosexuality in ancient Greece carried no social stigma and thus the ‘criminal-like’ mentality seen in modern homosexuals did not develop there.
The principal reason the modern homosexual has such a twisted sense of morals and shows such hatred and contempt for normal persons is that  the modern world has confused morality and tradition with legality. Legalizing an abominable thing like homosexuality will not make it moral automatically. Nor will it heal the aberrated personality of homosexuals. Counterintuitive rules will only destroy the fabric of society, and the demonic ‘will-to-live’ that has been born out of modern society’s infatuation with homosexuality and lesbianism, will perpetuate itself indefinitely.

How the Jews of Prague were saved: the legend of the Golem

Old New Synagogue, Prague

Tucked away in the Jewish quarter of Prague is a synagogue that is as beautiful as it is old and significant.
This is the famous Old New Synagogue, Europe’s oldest active synagogue. Completed in 1270, it was one of Prague’s first Gothic buildings. It is said that the body of Golem lies in the attic of this synagogue. Strangely, this building was spared by the Nazis during their destruction of Jewish buildings during the occupation of the city.
The word ‘golem’ means ‘unformed, amorphous’. According to the Talmud (Tractate Sanhedrin 38b), it is the matter which God shaped into the form of Adam, before breathing the breath of life into his nostrils. However, just as God cannot create another God, no man can create another man. Thus a golem made by a man lacks some characteristic or the other which prevents him from being called a man; this is usually the power of speech. The Sefer Yetzirah, the Book of Creation (2nd century BC), says that the letters of the Hebrew alphabet hold the key to creation, and thus it is the interplay of letters which creates and destroys a golem. The word emet (אמת, “truth” in the Hebrew language), inscribed on the head of the golem, keeps it alive. When the golem needs to be deactivated, the letter aleph in emet is erased, changing emet אמת (truth) to met אמ (death). Other legends state that a golem can be controlled by writing a specific series of letters on parchment and placing the paper in the golem’s mouth.
The most famous Golem narrative in history is the one involving Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the 16th century chief rabbi of the city of Prague in Bohemia, widely known as the Maharal of Prague. The Maharal was a well-known Talmudic scholar, mystic and philosopher. 
Under the rule of Rudolf II, the Holy Roman Emperor, a decision was taken to kill or expel the Jews of Prague. The Maharal then created the Golem from clay taken from the banks of the Vltava river. Initially successful in its mission, the Golem grew and bacame increasingly violent, killing gentiles and, according to some accounts, Jews too. The Emperor then pleaded to the Maharal to deactivate the Golem, which the latter did. The body of the golem was then stored in the attic of the Old New Synagogue of Prague, where legend says it lies to this day. One tale tells of a Nazi agent who ascended the attic and tried to stab the Golem, but died instead.

Tombstone of the Maharal,
at the Old Jewish Cemetery

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (the last Rebbe of Lubavitch) wrote that his father-in-law told him that he saw the remains of the Golem in the attic of Alt-Neu Shul.
Isaac Bashevis Singer said that the golem is the “very essence of Jewish folklore”. Yet this enthralling legend has strayed far beyond the realm of Jewish myth and strayed into the silver screen, Marvel comics, the opera, ballets, and plays.
Gustav Meyrink’s 1914 novel Der Golem is loosely inspired by the tales of the golem created by Judah Loew ben Bezalel. In 1974, Marvel Comics introduced “The Golem” as a recurring character in its Strange Tales comic book series.  David Brin’s science-fiction novel, Kiln People, describes a future where humans make lower quality copies of themselves (dittos or golems) out of clay. After reaching their expiration date, the golem’s memories can be reintegrated to the original person.  Two episodes of the science fiction TV series The X-Files, season 4’s Kaddish and season 6’s Arcadia, feature golems.  In I, Robot, Isaac Asimov shows us robots growing in sophistication and approaching ever nearer to humans in their consciousness. But the robot never attains humanity, just as man never attains godhead. Like a robot, the golem can always be destroyed by its maker, since it has no soul.  The golem is a popular figure in the Czech Republic. There are several restaurants and other businesses whose names reference the creature.

The Golem and the Maharal

Golem of Prague: Fact or Fiction?

This lecture was given at The Intercontinental Hotel in Vienna by Dr Shnayer Leiman on July 7, 2009.

Download it here. 

The Butcher of Prague

Reinhard Heydrich is perhaps the man most demonized for what has been described as his role in planning and executing the Holocaust. Yet there are parts of his history that are not generally mentioned.Was this man responsible for the deaths of millions, or has he been unjustly vilified for being an intelligent and competent member of the Nazi elite? An incisive look at the history of the Czech lands during the Second World War shows not Heydrich the Hangman, but Heydrich the social reformer and popular leader of Bohemia and Moravia.
Heydrich was chief of the Reich Main Security Office (which included the Gestapo and Kripo), and he also served as President of Interpol from 1940 to 1942. Heydrich is mainly known for his actions as the Deputy Reich Protector of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the part of the Czech lands that was incorporated into the Reich.
Heydrich was born into a family with substantialmusical talent. His maternal grandfather Professor Eugen Krantz had been the director of the Dresden Royal Conservatory. Heydrich was a skilled violin player for the whole of his life.

Heydrich at Obersalzberg in May 1939.
To his right is Himmler and to his
left is Waffen-SS General Karl Wolff.
The man in the front is an
unidentified assistant.

Heydrich had four children: Klaus, born in 1933; Heider, born in 1934; Silke, born in 1939; and Marte, born shortly after her father’s death in 1942. Heydrich’s son Klaus was killed in a tragic accident. The boy was cycling on the grounds of the Heydrich residence and  suddenly cycled out on the road through the gate, which was open. A truck hit him and he died soon after. Heydrich’s wife Lina understandably started behaving crazily; she went about threatening everyone, including the SS guards of the palace. The driver of the truck was arrested but was later released by German investigators who concluded that it was nothing more than an accident.

Hitler and Heydrich in Vienna, 1938.
To Hitler's right is Arthur Seyss-Inquart,
Chancellor of Austria.

Heydrich was methodical in his assessment of how to deal with enemies of the Reich. Soon after his arrival in Prague, he had this to say:
“To be able to make a decision as to who is suited to be Germanized, I need their racial inventory. We have all kinds of people here, some of them are showing racial quality and good judgment. It’s going to be simple to work on them – we can Germanize them. On the other hand, we have racially inferior elements and, what’s worse, they demonstrate wrong judgment. These we must get out. There is a lot of space eastwards. Between these two extremes, there are those in the middlethat we have to examine thoroughly. We have racially inferior people but with good judgment, then we haveracially unacceptable people with bad judgment. As to the first kind, we must resettle them in the Reich or somewhere else, but we have to make sure they no longer breed, because we don’t care to develop them in this area. One group remains, though, these people are racially acceptable but hostile in their thinking – that is the most dangerous group, because it is a racially pure class of leaders. We have to think through carefully what to do with them. We can relocate some of them into the Reich, put them in a purely German environment, and then Germanize and re-educate them. If this cannot be done, we must put them against the wall.”
The Protectorate brought blessings for the Czechs. Since the army was dissolved, Czech men no more had to face conscription. The economy was stabilized and unemployment disappeared. Heydrich implemented the first-ever social security and pension schemes the Czechs had experienced. Factory workers were given extra rations of food and sugar as rewards for extra work. He ordered the distribution of thousands of free cinema, theater, and football tickets to Czech workers. Amicable agreements were reached with the trade unions on minimum wages, pensions, insurance cover, and holiday entitlements. Heydrich often toured factories and told the workers what an inspiration they were, even to the Germans. He gave away 200,000 pairs of shoes for free to the needy. The black market was ruthlessly crushed, thereby earning Heydrich the loyalty of thousands of poor Czechs. Within months of assuming power, Heydrich lifted martial law, and the ordinary Czech could live a normal life again. As a result of Heydrich’s policies, the Czech Lands became one of the more prosperous regions in wartime Europe. In fact, by this time over half a million Czech citizens were formally claiming that they were of full orpartial German descent.
When the cortege carrying Heydrich’s body was being moved to the trainthat would carry it to Berlin, the crowds in Prague that were hailinghim and crying at his death numbered some six to ten thousand. To thedismay of the British, a few days later more than two hundred thousand Czechs gathered in a mass demonstration in Prague to mourn Heydrich’s death. Not unexpectedly, the British press called the obsequies “a gangster funeral in the pompous Chicago style.”

Heydrich's family after the war

Lina Heydrich's grave. The location is not

being mentioned because of the danger of

vandalism by desecrators.

After the war, Lina Heydrich went to live in Fehmarn, which is an island in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Schleswig-Holstein. She ran a hotel there and married a Finnish theater-manager named Mauno Manninen.  
She died sometime either in the late seventies or early eighties. Her daughter Marte Beyer still lives in Fehmarn and runs a fashion shop in the city of Burg. Heider Heydrich is a retired engineer in the Bavarian town of Wörthsee.Nothing is known of the present whereabouts of Silke. As mentioned above, Klaus died in childhood.

A video tribute to Reinhard Heydrich, the savior of the Czech Lands.

 

Reinhard Heydrich from Shankar Nandi on Vimeo.

Civilization from the Arctic

The matter of determining the origins of the ancient Aryans is of prime importance if we are to understand the true nature of our past. It also helps to explain many of the events taking place currently in our world.
The ancient Aryans were a race of people who lived in the Arctic and polar regions upto the second millenium BC. They lived there for the centuries spanning the post-glacial climatic optimum, during the third millenium BC, when the climate in those regions was more warm and hospitable. When the Sub-Boreal climatic plunge started in the early second millenium BC, something happened which changed the history of the Aryans forever. The decreasing temperatures, icy weather, and resulting upheaval spurred these people to move southward to seek more hospitable regions for living and developing new civilizations. Groups of warlike Aryans migrated south, where they reached warmer climes and founded the civilizations of Vedic India, ancient Greece and ancient Rome. It is also very likely that they played an important role in the founding of civilizations in Sumer, Egypt, China, and the Americas. It is a sad matter that the Aryan foundations of these civilizations have become mired in the fog and mist of history and later depredations.Only careful research and observation throws light on Aryan influence. 

Kalsoyarfjordur, in the Faroe Islands

An important work which deals with the polar-Arctic origins of the Aryans is the book The Arctic Home in the Vedas by the great Indian nationalist and Vedic scholar Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak. Using astronomical evidence from Vedic hymns, he very convincingly demonstrates how the Vedas retain memory of a distant time when the Aryans inhabited the Arctic regions, where they witnessed long days and long nights, where the sun went round the sky overhead, and the dawns lasted many months. The beauty and temporal length of Arctic dawns is the most probable reason why poetic descriptions of the dawn (Ushas, the goddess of dawn) is so prominent in the Rig Veda.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856-1920)

More esoteric and mythological topics, like the relation of the Arctic Aryan homeland with the hollow-earth hypothesis, Shambhala, and Agartha, are too controversial to deal with here. I hope to describe them in another article.
The physical appearance of the prototypical Aryan consists of :
a.) white skin with very little reddish tinge
b.) blond hair (of the golden type seen in Scandinavians and other Northern Europeans, rather than the flaxen type seen in Finns and Balts
c.) Facial physiognomy corresponding to the Hallstatt Nordic type.

Another significant work which throws light on the northern origins of the Aryans is Felice Vinci’s Homer in the Baltic. Written in Italian and widely translated and read, this book postulates that the events and characters in Homer’s epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey took place not in Greece, the Aegean sea and Asia Minor, but in Scandinavia and the shores of the Baltic. According to Vinci, ancient Troy is not the Anatolian site discovered by Heinrich Schliemann but the town of Toija in Finland. What Vinci sets out to prove, with convincing arguments, is that the events of the Iliad and the Odyssey took place when the Aryans were still living in icy northern climes, in Scandinavia, the Baltic region, and surrounding seas and isles. Some of the other points made by him are:(1.) Homer repeatedly mentions inclement weather conditions – snow and mist, icy winds, and gray skies; these are more appropriate in a Northern setting rather than in the sunny Mediterranean. (2.) Homeric place names and topographical features have been shown by Vinci to show a striking correspondence with places in the Baltic region, Finland, the fjords of Norway and the Faroe Islands. The legend of Helen of Troy seems to come from the same mythic race-memory as the legend of Sita in the Hindu epic The Ramayana. This legend is similar in that it also revolves around the kidnapping of a princess and the resulting calamitous war. The events obviously have a common source and happened in the distant past, when the Aryans were still living in the far North, and the great southward migrations were yet to start. When the Aryans were able to create fresh magnificent civilizations in southern climes they transformed their icy myths into the temperate and tropical settings of the new lands where they now lived. Gradually the memories of their Arctic, Scandinavian and Baltic homelands were either forgotten or retained in a radically changed form. The events described in the Ramayana thus are descriptions of events that once took place, in some form, in some northern icy land, remote from warm, sunny India.

It is worth noting here that only in Scandinavia and northern Germany was there no existing substratum of earlier humans, at least there is no archaeological evidence to suggest that. So it is in these areas that the original Aryan physical forms of blond, blue-eyed white-skinned tall people was preserved to the maximum extent. In the other places where the Aryans migrated, there was already an existing substratum of humans, and there was the inevitable race-mixing, with the resultant dilution of the prototypical Aryan physical characteristics. One of the more intriguing parts of this migration epic is the oft-drawn parallel between the Saxons (a Germanic tribe), and the Scythians (an Irano-Aryan people). Certain authorities have even gone on to suggest that the whole of the Germanic peoples have an Eastern origin. This is in conformity with the mistaken notion of many that the origin of the Aryans was from the steppes of eastern Ukraine and the Caspian sea region. This is actually a time-reversal of the actual events. In fact the Germanic tribes, as much pure-Aryan as could be, moved from their homeland in Scandinavia and other northern regions at a later stage, after many hundreds of years had passed after the earlier Aryan migrations to Greece, Rome, India and other places. In the course of their wanderings in eastern Europe, it is likely that they came into contact with Irano-Aryan tribes, these being the progeny of the earlier wave of Aryan invaders who had moved to Iran and India. But it is obvious, if only we pay attention to multiple sources and factors, that the general direction of the Aryans’ movement has been from north to south and from west to east. But it is also true that in the Middle Ages a significant amount of Ural-Altaic admixture seems to have taken place amongst the eastern Germanic tribes, as a result of the Hun and Mongol incursions. Some have noted a degree of Altaic physical characters in the Swedes , and of course in the Finns, which is absent in more western Germanic-origin peoples such as the Dutch, the Norwegians, and the English.

Thus, to summarize, there were 3 major waves of migration of the Aryan peoples:

1. The original moving-out from the Arctic homeland following the Sub-Boreal climatic shift. When the Aryans moved a bit south, they settled in Scandinavia and northern Germany

2. Here there were no ‘native’ people and the racial purity of the Aryans was maintained. From here many groups of Aryans moved out south, sometime in the second or third millenium BC, to far countries like India, Greece, Rome, and perhaps other countries.

3. The third wave of migrations was what has become famous as the great Germanic migrations throughout Europe. The Viking and Norman contributions may also be considered part of this wave.

The end of evolution

“Will humankind continue to evolve? The present answer must be “no.” Cultural evolution has buffered us against biological pressures that weeded out the feeble,slow,or stupid. Now, power tools, computers, clothes, spectacles, and modern medicine devalue the old inherited advantages of powerful physique, intelligence, pigmentation, visual acuity and resistance to diseases like malaria. Societies hold high percentages of physically weak or ill-proportioned people, and people with poor eyesight, or skin color and disease resistance unrelated to the climates where they live.

Some individuals who would have died in infancy a century ago survive to breed, handing on genetic faults to future generations.

Migration, too, has helped halt human evolution. No group lives isolated long enough to evolve into a new species as happened in the Pleistocene. And racial differences will decline with increased interbreeding of peoples from Europe, Africa, the Americas, India and China.”

David Lambert

The Cambridge Guide to Prehistoric Man

Prehistoric Man Hunting Bears, by Emmanuel Benner. At the Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar, France.