The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements
Author KEVIN MACDONALD is Professor of Psychology, California State University, Long Beach. He is the author of numerous works in evolutionary biology, including A People that Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy (Praeger, 1994) and Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism (Praeger, 1998.)
What follows is an excerpt of an excellent review and summary of this important work.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')n The Culture of Critique, Kevin MacDonald advances a carefully researched but extremely controversial thesis: that certain 20th century intellectual movements – largely established and led by Jews – have changed European societies in fundamental ways and destroyed the confidence of Western man. He claims that these movements were designed, consciously or unconsciously, to advance Jewish interests even though they were presented to non-Jews as universalistic and even utopian. He concludes that the increasing dominance of these ideas has had profound political and social consequences that benefited Jews but caused great harm to gentile societies. This analysis, which he makes with considerable force, is an unusual indictment of a people generally thought to be more sinned against than sinning.
The Culture of Critique is the final title in Prof. MacDonald's massive, three-volume study of Jews and their role in history. The two previous volumes are A People That Shall Dwell Alone and Separation and its Discontents, published by Praeger in 1994 and 1998. The series is written from a sociobiological perspective that views Judaism as a unique survival strategy that helps Jews compete with other ethnic groups. Prof. MacDonald, who is a psychologist at the University of California at Long Beach, explains this perspective in the first volume, which describes Jews as having a very powerful sense of uniqueness that has kept them socially and genetically separate from other peoples. The second volume traces the history of Jewish-gentile relations, and finds the causes of anti-Semitism primarily in the almost invariable commercial and intellectual dominance of gentile societies by Jews and in their refusal to assimilate. The Culture of Critique brings his analysis into the present century, with an account of the Jewish role in the radical critique of traditional culture.
The intellectual movements Prof. MacDonald discusses in this volume are Marxism, Freudian psychoanalysis, the Frankfurt school of sociology, and Boasian anthropology. Perhaps most relevant from a racial perspective, he also traces the role of Jews in promoting multi-culturalism and Third World immigration. Throughout his analysis Prof. MacDonald reiterates his view that Jews have promoted these movements as Jews and in the interests of Jews, though they have often tried to give the impression that they had no distinctive interests of their own. Therefore Prof. MacDonald's most profound charge against Jews is not ethnocentrism but dishonesty – that while claiming to be working for the good of mankind they have often worked for their own good and to the detriment of others. While attempting to promote the brotherhood of man by dissolving the ethnic identification of gentiles, Jews have maintained precisely the kind of intense group solidarity they decry as immoral in others.
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Re: The Culture of Critique
by NordicHero » Mon 08 May 2006, 19:53:11
The political and intellectual movements described above have had the effect of dramatically increasing America's dependence on foreign oil by dramatically increasing its population, while at the same time decreasing its social cohesion, and thereby its ability to survive something like peak oil intact, by promoting the myth that non-White immigration is good for America.
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Re: The Culture of Critique
by waegari » Mon 08 May 2006, 20:01:15
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'a')nd this has what to do with oil depletion?
There's a particular breed of human beings, which believes that anything bad must somehow be connected to Jewish people. In short: this is antisemite rubbish.
The quoted article ends thusly:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')If correct, his thesis certainly sheds light on the rapidity with which whites lost their will. Just a few decades ago whites were a confident race, proud of their achievements, convinced of their fitness to dominate the globe. Today they are a declining, apologetic people, ashamed of their history and not sure even of their claim to lands they have occupied for centuries. It is very rare for fundamental concepts to be stood on their heads in the course of just a generation or two, as has happened with thinking about race. Such speed suggests there has been something more than natural change.
And as we all know, according to this very special brand of folks, Jews aren't natural. And we know what that special brand of people feels they should do with anything unnatural. Now don't I get the feeling that there should be no room whatsoever on our forums for posts like these? Wouldn't that be just...natural?
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Re: The Culture of Critique
by gego » Mon 08 May 2006, 20:29:27
Racism is sort of an interesting thing to observe.
I, as a Caucasian, was raised in the Southern USA where the automatic prejucide was against Negros. My mother was raised in Western Pennsylvania where Catholics enjoyed the same derision, and she was heavily prejudice against Catholics.
The funny thing for me was as a kid I lived in New Orleans, both heavily Negro and heavily Catholic, and I did not know about the prejudice that whites were supposed to have against Jews, so my best friend as a teenager was a Jew, and I confess, I liked plenty of Catholics as well. Also, one of the nicest people to me as a little kid was a Negro known as Sespool (I have no idea of his religion), because he dug sespools. Another kid and I would spend many hours watching him work, and enjoying the teasind, and attention he paid to us, and while our conversations were not earthshattering, clearly he thought we were cute and lovable.
Somewhere along the line I learned about the automatic responses we call prejudice. Clearly, it is not possible to avoid generalizations in order to go throught life. There simple is not enough time to evaluate each encounter we have in life from scratch, so we have generalizations about what is good and what is bad. We automatically jump a few feet in the air if we are about to step on a snake, rather than stop to examine the snake for the probability that he is poisinous or not.
The trick to dealing with the prejudices that were imposed upon us as children is to understand them and to choose to discount them for the common misconceptions. If you were taught as a child to hate, or suspect, or condem classes such as Catholic, Nigger, Jew, Polack, Spic, or any other such category, you may not be able to completely change your automatic response, but you can understand yourself and what was programmed into you.
It is only the people who do not have understanding of themselves, that post such preposterous post as the white supremesist who started this thread. If you have very low self esteem, then it is a mechanism to elevate yourself to step upon the back of some "group" so you can make yourself feel better.
Even more interesting is that someone would cast the base prejudice he holds as some intellectual study of a religions and cultural group as it affects oil production. It is sort of like the right wing religious whackos pretending to prove by intellectual persuits that evolution did not happen.
Bad people by any other name are bad people, so I say to Adolph Hitler's follower, NordicHero, "Kiss my Caucasian ass."
I, as a Caucasian, was raised in the Southern USA where the automatic prejucide was against Negros. My mother was raised in Western Pennsylvania where Catholics enjoyed the same derision, and she was heavily prejudice against Catholics.
The funny thing for me was as a kid I lived in New Orleans, both heavily Negro and heavily Catholic, and I did not know about the prejudice that whites were supposed to have against Jews, so my best friend as a teenager was a Jew, and I confess, I liked plenty of Catholics as well. Also, one of the nicest people to me as a little kid was a Negro known as Sespool (I have no idea of his religion), because he dug sespools. Another kid and I would spend many hours watching him work, and enjoying the teasind, and attention he paid to us, and while our conversations were not earthshattering, clearly he thought we were cute and lovable.
Somewhere along the line I learned about the automatic responses we call prejudice. Clearly, it is not possible to avoid generalizations in order to go throught life. There simple is not enough time to evaluate each encounter we have in life from scratch, so we have generalizations about what is good and what is bad. We automatically jump a few feet in the air if we are about to step on a snake, rather than stop to examine the snake for the probability that he is poisinous or not.
The trick to dealing with the prejudices that were imposed upon us as children is to understand them and to choose to discount them for the common misconceptions. If you were taught as a child to hate, or suspect, or condem classes such as Catholic, Nigger, Jew, Polack, Spic, or any other such category, you may not be able to completely change your automatic response, but you can understand yourself and what was programmed into you.
It is only the people who do not have understanding of themselves, that post such preposterous post as the white supremesist who started this thread. If you have very low self esteem, then it is a mechanism to elevate yourself to step upon the back of some "group" so you can make yourself feel better.
Even more interesting is that someone would cast the base prejudice he holds as some intellectual study of a religions and cultural group as it affects oil production. It is sort of like the right wing religious whackos pretending to prove by intellectual persuits that evolution did not happen.
Bad people by any other name are bad people, so I say to Adolph Hitler's follower, NordicHero, "Kiss my Caucasian ass."
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Re: The Culture of Critique
by threadbear » Mon 08 May 2006, 20:30:20
Waegeri, I hate it too, but in the interest of free speech, it should be allowed to stay and meet it's doom through use of reason. It's important to let people go back and forth on this.
Nordic--Jews have a highly advanced social system that involves networking well and using their brains to maximum advantage. Are they not an example to follow, rather than a people to despise? What is preventing WASPS and big blonde hairy Nords, like yourself, from doing the same thing?
YOu see conspiracy--I see community
You see Jews as promoting Utopian ideas for personal gain, at the expense of everyone else? I see people who are forward thinkers, pushing the envelope and then rewarded with disdain.No good deed goes unpunished, I guess.
How well did the Jews do in Communist Russia? (Karl Marx was Jewish) Not very well. They were persecuted. How about in Germany where some were on the bleeding edge of Communism in that country-- foiled again, as their left leaning views were used as one of the rationales for genocide.
If their's is a conspiracy to dominate, they should get out of the conspiracy business.
Nordic--Jews have a highly advanced social system that involves networking well and using their brains to maximum advantage. Are they not an example to follow, rather than a people to despise? What is preventing WASPS and big blonde hairy Nords, like yourself, from doing the same thing?
YOu see conspiracy--I see community
You see Jews as promoting Utopian ideas for personal gain, at the expense of everyone else? I see people who are forward thinkers, pushing the envelope and then rewarded with disdain.No good deed goes unpunished, I guess.
How well did the Jews do in Communist Russia? (Karl Marx was Jewish) Not very well. They were persecuted. How about in Germany where some were on the bleeding edge of Communism in that country-- foiled again, as their left leaning views were used as one of the rationales for genocide.
If their's is a conspiracy to dominate, they should get out of the conspiracy business.
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Re: The Culture of Critique
by coyote » Mon 08 May 2006, 20:31:35
Here comes my very first ad hominem attack on this forum:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')ordic Non-hero, you are a Grade A Jackass.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')ordic Non-hero, you are a Grade A Jackass.
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We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
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It'll be those who gave their island to survive...
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas are silent in any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive...
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