Social Policy Review

CONGRESS MEMBERS URGE A US STAND AGAINST STATE-SPONSORED HOLOCAUST DENIAL IN UKRAINE AND POLAND April 25, 2018  In The News Jewish Telegraphic Agency More than 50 U.S. Congress members condemned Ukrainian legislation that they said “glorifies Nazi collaborators” and therefore goes further than Poland’s laws on rhetoric about the Holocaust. The condemnation came in an open bipartisan letter to Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan that was initiated by Democratic Reps. Ro Khanna of California and David Cicilline of Rhode Island. While noting that Poland passing a law in February that criminalizes blaming the Polish nation for Nazi crimes was “cause for concern,” the letter uses much harsher and likely precedent-setting language about developments in Ukraine that thus far have received relatively little attention in the West, observers of these processes said. “Ukraine’s luck of flying beneath the radar has finally run out,” Dovid Katz, the founder of the Defending History website ...

Three years ago this week on May 25, 2020, African American George Floyd, was detained and killed by a white Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, who knelt forcefully on Floyd’s neck, and in effect crushing Floyd’s wind pipe. Three other officers were involved, two helping to restrain Floyd, and another standing guard between witnesses and the actual killing. Eight minutes passed and Floyd was dead. Video taken by onlookers was posted world-wide which led to protests and riots in Minneapolis and throughout the United States. Protests also broke out in countries around the world, most notably Europe. Absent the video, the question being asked is how many more killings are taking place at the hands of the police, specifically black men. The cause of the protests and rioting, it is safe to conclude, has been the result of African American men and women being killed by police. George Floyd’s death unleashed rage and subsequently triggered protests which, at times, turned into vi...

       Besides some of the typical forms of anarchism such as those previously discussed, another has emerged over the past few decades. Known as postmodern anarchism, this school of thought provides an analysis different from traditional anarchism’s conventional critique of the illegitimacy of government. Postmodern anarchism now identifies capitalism as the driving force behind the illegitimacy and tyrannical nature of government and the state. Postmodern anarchism, as described by Zygmunt Bauman and Lewis Call, not only critiques industrial and post-Fordist capitalism, it also provides a critique of what has become known as postmodern capitalism. In turn it is Frederic Jameson and Jean Baudrillard who argue that the expansionistic nature of capitalism has now “colonized” the subconscious for the purposes of conditioning the mind to habituate consumers into constant state of consumption. Market propaganda (advertising) seeks to manipulate and control the human ...

It is bad enough that the MAGA moto harkens back to the Klan. But most disturbing, I argue, is the MAGA connection to the Reich’s MGGA and the implications of what occurred under Nazi rule. In a study by Anne Applebaum, Peter Pomerantsev, Melanie Smith and Chloe Colliver, “Make Germany Great Again: Kremlin, Alt-Right and International Influences in the 2017 German Elections,” Institute for Strategic Dialogue (2017), the authors argue that t he MGGA was strategically placed in Adolph Hitler’s Mein Kampf . Hitler was well aware of the MAGA effect on racist America. The use of this would fit well with his design to eliminate the undesirable elements that had emerged in Germany. The Manifesto of the Fasci of Combat ( Fascist Manifesto ), written in 1919 by Benito Mussolini and  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti , was also highly influential   in Hitler’s writings. The Doctrine of Fascism , written in 1932, purportedly written by  Benito Mussolini , but more than likely the in...