Ed responded to the question, Given That Marxists Murdered Millions of Their Compatriots, Why Are Jews So Often Marxist?

Being Jewish myself, I may have some insight into why so many of us have become the useful idiots of those who mean us and the country no good.

What attracted many European Jews, especially the intellectuals, to Marxist socialism was the hope that the utopia socialism promised would, regarding all people as equal and- deracinated (very important,) end the scourge of anti-semitism so that Jews would finally dissolve into the general population, keeping, as an artifact, the Jewish (i.e. the non-Christianized) aspect of “Judeo-Christian” religion. That’s how Zionism came about, the disillusion that followed the Dreyfus trial, the conviction that the “Gentiles” will never let us become ordinary, non-discriminated against slobs like everyone else.

Then came the Nazis in “the most highly evolved country of Western Civilization” as though to prove the point with the Holocaust, the worst pogrom yet whose collective trauma resides, to this day and probably for a long time to come, deep in the Jewish psyche. …

But hope springs eternal and young, liberal, educated Jews like me, back in the sixties, saw in the Civil Rights movement and in Dr. King’s rhetoric, the resurrection of the old socialist hope, the messianic hope really, that tribal, ethnic racial distinctions might, this time, be abolished and a Miltonian paradise regained at last achieved. This is Bernie who’s never done anything of note, who knows nothing about economics and even less about human nature and who’s gotten rich off politics and the fat of the land. It’s also the detestable Chomsky and his contempt for his own people.

And on the other side, the Jewish neo-cons are, in their way, just as bad.

Some of us — Ira Katz, for example — try to sound the warning but we get ignored or censored. As I drive around the affluent neighborhoods here and view the many BLM and “nobody’s a stranger” signs on the lily white lawns, some of them Jewish lawns, I think that it must be the Passover and these must be the blood on the doorpost signs telling the Angel of Death, “Skip this house. We’re the righteous. You want those racists over there.”

Progressives have a death wish that those who despise us will be happy to accommodate. I’ve never seen a group of craven virtue signalers more oblivious, many liberal Jews among us. You’d think that Jews, of all people, would learn from our history. What’s sad and not exactly clear to me is how and why so many of us refuse to do so.

When I thanked Ed for these insights, he added, 

You know how W.E.B. Dubois wrote about the “twoness” of African-American identity. Some of that might apply to Jewish-American identity. For some Jewish people, it’s like aggh, we’re losing our identity and becoming generic white Americans (nothing wrong with that in my book) and then some Jew bashing incident happens to alert us that uh oh, we’re not quite white, culturally if not racially. …

Meanwhile, Christians are just as guilty. They pander to BLM regardless of how many believers communism has martyred and continues to martyr worldwide. They “repent” of racism yet never pray for their sisters and brothers under persecution. They refuse to condemn Marxism (“That’s politics! We concentrate on the Gospel”) while leaving the churches in California to twist in its tyrannical wind. 

So when we ask why so many Jews are Marxist despite this hellish philosophy’s track-record, we ought actually ask why so much of humanity is.

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