The Other Holocaust

Communism from Marx to the Post-Modern Age

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George Orwell forever nailed the semantics of thought control when he wrote in 1984:

Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.…It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought…should be literally unthinkable…

From the autumn of 2023 up to the present the genocide perpetrated by the Israelis in Gaza has largely not been termed a holocaust. With remarkable unanimity witnesses, journalists and activists entirely shocked and horrified by the daily slaughter avoided employing the word, presumably because they believe that to do so would invite a storm of invective which would have vitiated the moral force of their protest.

The Newspeak process has trademarked Holocaust™ as the exclusive domain of one historical epoch, all other memories need not apply, including the memory of crimes against humanity which most accurately fit the main dictionary definition:

The Oxford English Dictionary, Volume 5 (1961), p. 344. The reference to the Druids alludes to their custom of burning humans in giant, anthropomorphic “wicker man” enclosures. Cf. Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico (Gallic Wars), Book 6, Chapter 16.

Ah, but that was Oldspeak which expanded the range of thought, something which 21st-century people are no longer permitted. Hence, this writer risks contumely and cancellation for bringing to your attention the fact that the fiery immolation by US bombers of 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo in March, 1945 and approximately 200,000 human beings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of that year exactly fulfill what the dictionary primarily defines as a holocaust. The employment of the term expands our knowledge, yet it is forbidden for us to do so.

Forbidden by what mechanism? By an osmosis propelled by ethnocentrism and sustained by the timidity of those who know better but will not defy it.

A candid study of history demonstrates there have been many holocausts, not only the terrible one visited upon the Jewish people by Hitler’s savage occultism.

2017 was the one-hundredth anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Benjamin Nathans writes, “The Russian Revolution, to borrow a phrase from Gershom Scholem, the historian of Jewish messianism, was one of history’s ‘plastic hours,’ when inherited institutions melt away, clearing a path for possibility.”

In fact, Russia’s institutions didn’t “melt,” they were burned and shot and exploded away by “messianism” and what remained in the rubble was a path to a future of mass deportation, slave labor gulags and police state terror amounting to a minimum death toll of tens of millions of people, aided by western banks and agents in the British and American governments.

The Russian-Judaic historian Yuri Slezkine took note of the messianic dimension in his brilliant book The House of Government: The Saga of the Russian Revolution (Princeton University, 2017), wherein he acknowledges “the extraordinary presence of Jews in the early Soviet political, cultural and administrative elite.” He also demonstrates how many of them ended as victims of Stalin.

The Russian people were reconfigured as “class enemies, kulaks” or “landlords” and either worked to death in the Gulag or shot outright. All points of view hostile to the Communists were suppressed and quotas were established for the mass arrests of those who espoused them.

In China Mao Zedong viewed the colossal mass murder in the Soviet Union as intrinsic to its success. The legacy of the unspeakable bloodshed Mao perpetrated in upwards of 100 million deaths is the legacy of the death-dealing despots in Beijing with whom American capitalists have done a brisk business, all talk of Mao’s holocaust having been thoroughly repressed. Who cares? Let’s make money.

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