Introduction.
European Imperialism, Nazism, and Socialism, should be seen, not as the result of simplistic malice or stupidity, but as flawed ideologies that understandably made sense to many intellectuals and well-intentioned people. As 1974 Nobel Laureate in Economics F.A. Hayek writes:
“It is necessary to realize that the sources of many of the most harmful agents in this world are often not evil men but high-minded idealists, and that in particular the foundations of totalitarian barbarism have been laid by honourable and well-meaning scholars who never recognized the offspring they produced.”
Hayek again:
”Most people are still unwilling to face the most alarming lesson of modern history: that the greatest crimes of our time have been committed by governments that had the enthusiastic support of millions of people who were guided by moral impulses. It is simply not true that Hitler or Mussolini, Lenin or Stalin, appealed only to the worst instincts of their people: they also appealed to some of the feelings which also dominate contemporary democracies.”
Just like Socialism was a flawed ideology that led to tyrannical-chaotic states like the Soviet Union and Maoist China, so is Zionism and resulting Israeli state. Zionism is similar to the ideologies above, yet far deadlier, because unlike their flaws, which have been relatively simple and already overcome, Zionism’s flaws are far more complex, thus fooling many of our brightest minds and still increasing their calamitous effects. To properly understand this we begin by briefly summarizing the recent emergence-evolution of the modern global free market capitalist order, followed by the rise of Socialist mythology and resulting Soviet Union which will provide an example of how intelligent people fool themselves into tyranny, and then we show how the same applies to Zionism and resulting Israeli state.
The Emergence of Capitalism and Socialist Mythology.
Until the late 1700s most people lived in small and nearly self-sufficient farming towns. As technology improved (printing press, engines-factories), the rate at which mankind could transform raw materials into wealth was rapidly increasing in cities. A growing class of businessmen-entrepreneurs-capitalists and their ‘private sector’ companies were constantly innovating, and due to people’s ‘freedom to trade’ their ‘private property’ only for things they deemed superior, entrepreneurs also had to copy the innovations of competitors, inadvertently creating and spreading superior information-technology and subsequent socioeconomic order. Competition between increasingly wealthy-productive factories-businesses-entrepreneurs motivated them to pay increasing amounts of wealth relative to what workers earned in farms causing people to move to cities, quickly leading to massively complex metropolises-supercomputers and accelerating living standards.
Morals are information which also emerges and spreads via economic competition to considerable degrees. It is hard-working, courteous people-workers, that treat others-customers-coworkers with mutual respect in a manner that maximizes cooperation-production-profitability regardless of age-sex-religion-race, who thanks to competition, motivate everyone else to be likewise. As Hayek writes:
“Competition is, after all, always a process in which a small number makes it necessary for larger numbers to do what they do not like, be it to work harder, to change habits, or to devote a degree of attention, continuous application, or regularity to their work which without competition would not be needed.”
By the late 1800s most large cities in the world, from NYC to Shanghai, were increasingly being organized by private businessmen and citizens who wore some kind of business suit, priding themselves in hard work, honesty, self-reliance, toleration, and the wealth and prosperity they brought.
Now, very important! Were the above changes leading to the emergence of modern capitalism the result of the plans or design of some great intellectuals-leaders? No. Just like language is a complex and vital communication-coordination system that is, in the words of Adam Ferguson: “indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design”, so are the socioeconomic institutions associated with Capitalism like private property, money, economic competition (summarized above), as Carl Menger writes: “the unintended product of historical development…the unintended result of individual human efforts (pursuing individual interests) without a common will directed toward their establishment.” Just like through a non-designed evolutionary process cells created the respiratory-digestive-nervous-etc. “systems” that coordinate multicellular life, so has man created the mechanisms (private property, money, finance-banking) that coordinate, what Menger and Herbert Spencer so cleverly called, ‘The Social Organism’.
Thus we can see how ‘private property’ and its emerging freedom and ‘competition of ideas’, as opposed to leading to chaos, is what 1) enables and motivates the discovery and spread of superior information and subsequent social order, 2) civilizes us, 3) protects us from being coerced into doing something we don’t want and thus allows us to live our lives as we wish, 4) and is vital for discovering the truth. Freedom is the ultimate algorithm!
Since these changes were “unintended”, their benefits were not widely understood which led to the rapid spread of a new erroneous ideology-mythology, Socialism. Misguided ideologues and resentful masses, fooled by the rapidly growing complexity of the socioeconomic order, increasingly thought that entrepreneurs and their companies were “exploiting” workers, leading to “unfair” differences in wealth, and that abolishing them or having them managed by a coercive-competition-immune-monopolistic bureaucracy of “experts” and “great leaders”, in other words, the state-government or the ‘public sector’, would be a better way of managing the socioeconomic order. An echo-chamber of intellectuals showing various levels of ignorance-incompetence-negligence would describe these increasingly popular fallacies-myths in a manner that was bound to go viral and that is what sort of happened with Karl Marx and his bite-sized “Communist Manifesto” where he famously writes: “the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union.
Lenin’s Bolshevik revolution in 1917 led to the attempted implementation of a Socialist state, the Soviet Union(1922). The Soviets’ expert-led “central plans” could not work if people were free not to fund or go along with them, so everyone had to be coerced via a massive police state that would both criminalize dissent and propagandize its myths-ideology making them much harder to change.
Without privately owned and thus competing companies, you’d now have a single coercive-competition-immune-monopolistic bureaucracy of “experts” with no incentives or pressure to innovate or copy existing innovations since there are no judicious customers to persuade-satisfy. Without corporate profit-loss calculation, which guided the actions of people-workers-companies in a manner where more wealth was produced (sales revenue) than consumed (costs), thus ensuring profitability-growth, the future Socialist-Soviet-Maoist bureaucracies-orders would consume more than produce leading to eventual famines and chaos. The Soviets-Socialists did achieve some technological progress because they would copy the improvements companies in the free-competitive non-Socialist countries were creating.
Kulaks, farmers who employed and thus profited from laborers, would be seen as greedy-immoral “exploiters” to be killed with impunity. Lenin orders:
“Hang (I mean hang publicly, so that people see it) at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known blood-suckers…Publish their names…Seize all their grain.”
Socialist movements inadvertently had massive Jewish overrepresentation. There is Jewish leading Socialist ideologue Karl Marx. Lenin’s sidekick and founder of the Red Army, Leon Trotsky (born Lev Davidovich Bronstein), was offered by Lenin to be the first leader of what would become the Soviet Union, but Trotsky turned down the idea and told Lenin: ‘You know very well that a Jew can’t be Premier in Russia’. Jewish Author Yuri Slezkine writes in his excellent book ‘The Jewish Century’: “At the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets in June 1917, at least 31 percent of Bolshevik delegates(and 37 percent of Unified Social Democrats) were Jews.” Furthermore, 5 of the 12 Bolshevik Central Committee Members at the October 10, 1917 meeting which voted to launch an armed insurrection were ethnic Jews. Jews, at least in Lenin’s Russia, were on average better educated, thus inadvertently rising to the top of the tyrannical ideology-bureaucracy which required the better-educated to coerce the rest. Lenin mentions how: “Jewish intelligentsia members in the Russian cities was of great importance to the revolution…It was only thanks to this pool of a rational and literate labor force that we succeeded in taking over the state apparatus.” The atheism and Darwinism associated with Socialism had an extra appeal for Jews since they’d now gain equality and freedom from religion-influenced restrictions. This not only further contributed to their over-representation in the horrible movement, but also in the tyrannical Soviet secret police tasked with eliminating the “irrational” religious Christians-Muslims-Jews who got in the way of Socialist ideology-morality. Slezkine again:
“In 1923, at the time of the creation of the OGPU(the Cheka’s successor), Jews made up 15.5 percent of all “leading” officials and 50 percent of the top brass (4 out of 8 members of the Collegium’s Secretariat).“Socially alien” Jews were well represented among Cheka-OGPU prisoners, too, but Leonard Schapiro is probably justified in generalizing (especially about the territory of the former Pale) that “anyone who had the misfortune to fall into the hands of the Cheka stood a very good chance of finding himself confronted with and possibly shot by a Jewish investigator.””
In just 13 years, from 1927-1940, the Soviet secret police, with a significant over-representation of ethic Jews, destroyed 29,084 Christian Orthodox Churches leaving less than 500, while killing an estimated 80,000-100,000 priests. This erroneously made it seem to naïve thinkers like Hitler, and sadly many to this day, that “The Jews” purposely conspired Socialism for nefarious purposes including destroying Christianity-Islam-Religion, instead of the truth, that complex historical-cultural-environmental factors, NOT malicious conspiracy, led to ethnic Jews being over-represented in a disastrous ideology.
Religious people understandably saw the Socialists who were persecuting them, not as economically-ideologically misguided, but as being “evil”, “Satanic”, etc., which the atheist-Darwinian Socialists found absurd. This made it even easier for Socialists to ridicule and persecute with immense negligence and cruelty the religious people who were preventing the great progress ‘Scientific Socialism’ would allegedly bring.
Emerging Marxist morality (adhere to expert plans) and existing religious morality (God-given rights-freedoms, 10 commandments, etc.) clashed, overlooking the root economic errors-fallacies-ideas fueling the chaos. Mises elaborates in one of my favorite and vital sections of his treatise Human Action aptly called ‘The Fight Against Error’:
“The problems involved are purely intellectual and must be dealt with as such. It is disastrous to shift them to the moral sphere and to dispose of supporters of opposite ideologies by calling them villains… The rigid dogmatism peculiar to religious groups and to Marxism results only in irreconcilable conflict. It condemns beforehand all dissenters as evildoers, it calls into question their good faith, it asks them to surrender unconditionally. No social cooperation is possible where such an attitude prevails.”
The same polarizations and chaos would emerge as Jews and people making anti-Jewish fallacies (Hitler-Nazis), as well as Zionists and anti-Zionists, vilified each other overlooking the complex history and errors from which the misunderstandings and hatreds arose. Per Mises, it is vitally important that we focus on the ideas-fallacies:
“It is ideas that group men into fighting factions, that press the weapons into their hands, and that determine against whom and for whom the weapons shall be used. It is they alone, and not arms, that, in the last analysis, turn the scales.”
And that we likewise look at history trying to understand how people fooled themselves into disastrous ideologies instead of just making “condemnations”:
“Neither as judges allotting praise and blame nor as avengers seeking out the guilty should we face the past. We seek truth, not guilt; we want to know how things came about to understand them, not to issue condemnations.”
“History should teach us to recognize causes and to understand driving forces; and when we understand everything, we will forgive everything.”
The Socialists-Soviets, by granting equal rights to women, being the first to put a man in space (Yuri Gagarin), having the most chess champions, and other cosmetic achievements, kept fooling themselves into thinking they were the vanguard of civilization while in reality their ideology-Socialism was by far the most uncivilized-tyrannical-disastrous.
It is important to see Socialism for what it is-was, a disastrous emerging-evolving ideology-myth-software-identity and NOT some simplistic malicious-immoral conspiracy. The great comedian-critic George Carlin astutely mentioned: “You don’t need a formal conspiracy when interests converge.” Ideologies cause people to have shared interests-incentives-fears-concerns-views which causes them to think and act alike giving the impression that they are in a ‘formal conspiracy’ when in reality no such thing has likely occurred. And even when ‘formal conspiracies’ do occur, we must focus on the complex emergence-evolution of the “ideas that group men”.
Eventually, significantly thanks to Carl Menger and his intellectual descendants known as ‘The Austrian School of Economics’, like Ludwig von Mises and F.A. Hayek who explained all the fallacies, and after enough failures and suffering, enough minds were changed and the Soviets got their “reformers”. 1976 Nobel Laureate in Economics Milton Friedman mentions how: “There is…no person who had more of an influence on the intellectuals behind the iron curtain than Friedrich Hayek.” Gorbachev mentions: “[Communism] in principle, as a system, as a philosophy, as a model of organizing society, of reforming society, has to be rejected.” The Zionists currently find themselves in a similarly disastrous situation.
The Emergence of Zionism and its polarizing effects.
Given the understandable intellectual ignorance-backwardness of the past, throughout history Jews have been erroneously blamed for many things like The Black Plague. Inadvertent Jewish overrepresentation in both, Atheistic-Socialist movements, as well as banking-finance-Capitalism, also brought Jews scorn from people who disliked or misunderstood both Socialism and Capitalism. Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, over 20 years before the Jewish-overrepresented Bolsheviks-Socialists gained power, brilliantly summarized the situation when he writes in his seminal book ‘The Jewish State’(1896),:
“We are what the Ghetto made us. We have attained pre-eminence in finance, because mediaeval conditions drove us to it. The same process is now being repeated. We are again being forced into finance, now it is the stock exchange, by being kept out of other branches of economic activity. Being on the stock exchange, we are consequently exposed afresh to contempt. At the same time we continue to produce an abundance of mediocre intellects who find no outlet, and this endangers our social position as much as does our increasing wealth. Educated Jews without means are now rapidly becoming Socialists. Hence we are certain to suffer very severely in the struggle between classes, because we stand in the most exposed position in the camps of both Socialists and capitalists.”
Furthermore, a more secular-Darwinian-evolutionary outlook, being more permissive of human nature, unintendedly caused Jews to be relative leaders in the carnal pleasures associated with pornography, LGBT stuff which helps explain why Tel Aviv may be the gay capital of the world, and the film-music-Hollywood industry. As Marlon Brando put it: “Hollywood is run by Jews. It’s owned by Jews.” Jewish involvement and influence in such movements-industries is not the result of malicious conspiracy by allegedly all-powerful Jews, it is the result of complex evolved cultural factors and thus: “indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.”
Unfortunately, instead of overcoming anti-Jewish fallacies via reason, logic, and education, which are the only ways to overcome fallacies, Jews, as well as people wanting to get rid of them, understandably fooled themselves into attempting to overcome Jew-Gentile misunderstandings-frictions by encouraging Jews to leave the humble Synagogues and towns-cities, where they were really from and had lived for centuries, to create a “Jewish State” in the holiest of locations in the Western World and overwhelmingly populated by Muslims, Christians, and fellow Jews who for understandable reasons were adamantly opposed to living in a “Jewish State”. A state that would be concocted by misguided European ideologues who understandably inherited some of the imperialist-racist, and Socialist fallacies of their times. David ben Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister, eagerly attended Moscow in 1923 to celebrate the 7th anniversary of the Bolsheviks’ October Revolution. Benzion Netanyahu (Bibi’s dad) wrote-believed absurdities like: “If a nation says out of conviction, I am strong and forceful, then it becomes strong and forceful. This is the law of greatness.” Impressive if written in cursive by a four year old, but a recipe for socioeconomic chaos. The bottom line is that Zionist ideologues, being equally human, were just as misguided-ignorant-negligent, and sometimes dangerously fanatical, as Lenin and his Bolsheviks.
Instead of having an ideology-identity-culture-software that could spread the TRUTH, that freedom and individual rights were increasing and anti-Jewish restrictions (along with slavery, unequal treatment of women, etc.) were decreasing, we now had the evolution of a Zionist identity-ideology that would grow by doing the opposite, by bringing attention to, amplifying, and attempting to eradicate anti-Jewish fallacies with increased vilification, separation and violence. A process that could only increase anti-Jewish fallacies, polarizations and wars.
In his MUST-BE-READ classic essay ‘The Iron Wall’ (1923), long before the rise of Nazi Germany, Vladimir Jabotinsky, one of the most important Zionist ideologues wrote:
“There can be no voluntary agreement between ourselves and the Palestine Arabs. Not now, nor in the prospective future…. it is utterly impossible to obtain the voluntary consent of the Palestine Arabs for converting “Palestine” from an Arab country into a country with a Jewish majority…Culturally they [Arabs] are five hundred years behind us, they have neither our endurance nor our determination…We hold that Zionism is moral and just. And since it is moral and just, justice must be done, no matter whether Joseph or Simon or Ivan or Achmet agree with it or not. There is no other morality.”
Just like Socialist identity-morality replaced the previous identity-morality of many Russians and Chinese as it attempted to create the “Socialist man” who “was to be selfless, learned, healthy, muscular, and enthusiastic in spreading the communist Revolution”, so would Zionism drive extinct the organically grown Judaisms who were overwhelmingly opposed to Zionism. The rabbinical establishment, reflecting views shared by most Jews in Munich, Germany, where Herzl wanted to hold the First Zionist Congress (1897), strongly rejected the idea so the meeting was moved to Basel, Switzerland. They mentioned:
“…we comprise a separate community solely with respect to religion. Regarding nationality, we feel totally at one with our fellow Germans and therefore strive towards the realization of the spiritual and moral goals of our dear fatherland with an enthusiasm equaling theirs.”
Chaim Weizmann, the leading Zionist figure after Herzl’s death in 1904, lamented how:
“For assimilated Jews…They looked upon it…as a primitive tribalism. They felt themselves…called upon to “rescue” Judaism from Zionism…these people are dead against Zionism”
The “Zonification” of Judaism, led by a bunch of Atheists (Herzl, ben Gurion, etc.), replaced “identities”-cultures which shared a common language and strived “towards the realization of the spiritual and moral goals of” the towns, cities, countries they were a part of and shared with non-Jews, for a separatist-exclusive Zionist identity that was ultimately tied to the fallacy of coercing millions into living under a ‘Jewish State’. Unfortunately and in many ways predictably, Zionist fallacies-ideology and Hitler’s anti-Jewish fallacies kept fermenting each other leading to WWII and the further “Zionification” of the West.
Hitler of course held anti-Jewish fallacies, like confusing the real and massive Jewish overrepresentation in the horrific Bolshevik revolution, resulting Soviet Union and its tyrannical anti-Christian purges, with some deliberately malicious plot masterminded by Jews and further erroneously tied to their “race”. However, vilifying and attempting to destroy people making errors is also a mistake just as responsible for all the polarizations and chaos.
To what degree can one deem people criminals when their harms are the result of the emergence of a complex and ultimately fallacious ideology-morality? The legal concept of ‘mens rea’ (guilty mind) is something we must keep in mind when dealing with millions who fool themselves into flawed ideologies-moralities like Socialism, Nazism, European Imperialism, etc., and Zionism.
On January, 1934 over 5 years before start of WWII Jabotinsky wrote:
“For months now the struggle against Germany is waged by each Jewish community, at each conference, in all our syndicates, and by each Jew all over the world…We will trigger a spiritual and material war of all the world against Germany’s ambitions to become once again a great nation, to recover lost territories and colonies. But our Jewish interests demand the complete destruction of Germany. Collectively and individually, the German nation is a threat to us Jews.”
The increasingly “Zionized” Jews and their supporters did nothing to understand-overcome anti-Jewish fallacies, misrepresented Hitler as some non-homo sapiens maniacal conqueror, prevented him from rightly overturning the wrongs of the ‘Treaty of Versailles’ like reuniting the Danzig Germans thus forcing Hitler to do it by force, and then fooled themselves and the world into an unnecessary massive world war. Only “Zionized” minds could see Hitler and the courteous, pious, civilized Germans, as a greater menace than Stalin. As awful and uncivilized as Hitler’s racist-antisemitic Nuremberg Laws were, according to Grok-AI, quoting likely exaggerated Jewish sources, 2,000 to 4,000 Jews died in Germany in the 6.5 year span since Hitler rose to power (1933) till WWII began (1939), an insignificant number compared to the estimated 5,400 to 15,400 PER WEEK Stalin killed just during his ‘Great Purge’(1936-8). This “Zionification” also erroneously portrayed the Japanese, due to their alliance with Hitler, as some uncivilized conquerors, and again, worse than Stalin. The truth is, that even with Hitler’s naive government-sanctioned discrimination against Jews, the average Jew was better off in Hitler’s pre-war Germany than an average Russian in Stalin’s Soviet Union. And the Japanese, significantly due to their admiration of freemarketeer Herbert Spencer who was the most widely read Western intellectual and even in close correspondence with Japanese leaders as they crafter their laws-reforms, were a rapidly progressing and civilizing force in Asia, especially compared to the Maoist Communist calamity that replaced them.
On February 9th 1938, almost 7 months before the outbreak of WWII, the Polish Ambassador in Washington, Count Jerzy Potocki, reported back home to the Foreign Minister in Warsaw on the Jewish role “in creating a war psychosis which would plunge the entire world into war”:
“The Jews are right now the leaders in creating a war psychosis which would plunge the entire world into war and bring about general catastrophe. This mood is becoming more and more apparent.…This hatred has become a frenzy. It is propagated everywhere and by every means: in theaters, in the cinema, and in the press. The Germans are portrayed as a nation living under the arrogance of Hitler which wants to conquer the whole world and drown all of humanity in an ocean of blood. In conversations with Jewish press representatives I have repeatedly come up against the inexorable and convinced view that war is inevitable. This international Jewry exploits every means of propaganda to oppose any tendency towards any kind of consolidation and understanding between nations.”
After World War Two started, Chaim Weizmann, mentioned the obvious: “this war is our war”. In a speech on December 3, 1942, in New York he mentioned:
“We are not denying and are not afraid to confess that this war is our war and that it is waged for the liberation of Jewry… Stronger than all fronts together is our front, that of Jewry. We are not only giving this war our financial support on which the entire war production is based, we are not only providing our full propaganda power which is the moral energy that keeps this war going.”
Mises’ pupil and fellow Jew, economist Murray Rothbard wisely and courageously summarizes the truth-reality:
“Germany and Hitler were not uniquely guilty of launching World War II (indeed they were scarcely guilty at all);…Hitler, in brief, (in foreign affairs) was not a uniquely evil monster or daimon, who would continue to gobble up countries diabolically until stopped by superior force…Hitler had no designs, no plans, not even vague intimations, to expand westward against Britain and France (let alone the United States). Hitler admired the British Empire and wished to collaborate with it. Not only did Hitler do this with insight, he did it with patience, as Taylor excellently shows…”
The same ideological patterns keep repeating. “Zionized” Jews and their supporters understandably evolved an ideological and incentive structure which led to the vilification and destruction of Germany due to Hitler’s naive anti-Jewish fallacies. Then critics of Zionism became the next “irrational terrorists”, antisemites, and “Hitlers” leading to US presidents like George W. Bush who mentions “Either you’re with us, or you are with the terrorists.” “Either you’re with us, either you love freedom, and with nations which embrace freedom, or you’re with the enemy. There is no in between.” And now Putin’s rightly cordial and sympathetic treatment of anti-Zionists like the Palestinians and their allies like former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and Iran is likewise making him the next “irrational” non-homo sapiens maniacal Hitler who allegedly wants to conquer Europe. This simplistic-tribalistic “good vs. evil” ideology continues to spread and now dominates the “Zionized” West, with simpletons like Ukrainian leader Zelensky (Jewish-Zionist of course, what a coincidence) mentioning: “You can mediate between countries, but not between good and evil.” Re-read Potocki’s quote, and notice how “Zionized” Jews like Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin “are right now the leaders in creating a war psychosis which would plunge the entire world into war and bring about general catastrophe.” The great Russian diplomat and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, told journalist Pepe Escobar in June 2025 that “I don’t understand why we cannot have an adult dialogue.” The answer is because the US government has been totally “Zionized” just like Jews-Israelis have. Former Texas Gov. and one of the leading Republican presidential hopefuls of 2012, Rick Perry stated that: “As a Christian I have a clear directive to support Israel, from my perspective it’s pretty easy both as an American and a Christian. I am going to stand with Israel.” This religious-based Zionism can be seen as ‘Right-Wing’ Zionism. The Zionism of the US Republican Party and the naive simple-minded flag-waving white American Christian masses who easily find unity with fellow white-European Ashkenazi Jews. But we also have Left-Wing Zionism, the Zionism of the Left, of the secular intellectuals, the ‘Priesthood of Scientism’, and so on. These are the very successful secular Jews and their similarly-minded intellectuals who see the Muslim world as religious fanatics and fellow secular LGBT-rights-supporting Jews-Israelis as the good and “civilized” people. As former speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi mentioned: “if the Capitol crumbles to the ground, the one thing that would remain is our commitment to Israel…that’s fundamental.” So just like both religious-Right and secular-Left Jews Zionized themselves, they Zionized the American Left and Right too.
