The academic world has been buzzing with arguments seeking to explain the origins and mechanism of Jewish power in the modern West. The question is rife with landmines and one side of the debate is heavily stifled. One theory gaining traction, promoted by figures such as Richard Hanania and Cambridge lecturer Nathan Cofnas, is that the massive overrepresentation of the Ashkenazi Jewish population derives from their genetic superiority to whites in the area of intellect. This theory has been proliferated through Jewish-owned publications of great import, such as the
The recent “debate” between Alex Jones and Brother Nathaniel touches on the establishment of stock exchanges as a fulcrum of jewish power, with Alex trying (and failing) to claim London’s exchange was a gentile operation. Thank you for making this important information accessible and tying it in to more recent scholarship
Great article. The reason jews and capitalism/money power go together is because it's the most undemocratic form of power, and allows a small number of people to hold all the power in a system by simply stacking capital.
Great piece, Joey. I just order Sombart's book. Are you familiar with the economist Michael Hudson? I just ran across a fascinating interview with him. His economics seems extremely compatible with national socialism, though I expect he'd recoil at the suggestion. He basically points to non-productive finance capitalism as the major ill of our world (though he certainly doesn't connect it to Jews).
I recommend Sombart's "Traders and Heroes" comparing the values and political tradition of the Anglo-Liberal world and the Prussian-German culture. This conflict was highly emphasized on both sides with liberal countries declaring Germany any enemy of Western Civilization due to its failure to embrace liberal democracy.
In fact, propaganda during WW2 from the Atlantic side was a recreation of WW1 propaganda with Nazi's being the rebirth of the evil Prussian authoritarian threat to democracy and freedom. It was only decades after WW2 did anti Nazism become focused upon antisemitism and the holocaust.
This conflict between German-Prussian and Anglo-Atlantic culture is not talked about anymore, the far right today tends to latch on exclusively to the antisemitic world outlook that was thrust to the forefront of German nationalist politics after the rise of Bolshevism and WW1 defeat. I happen to have the unpopular opinion in these circles that the conflict between these 2 political traditions is still the real conflict of out time and the future of the West.
The German political tradition is not merely in conflict with liberalism but is ultimately the antithesis of what is today considered to be conservative or RW politics due to the dominance of Anglo American culture. Nothing can highlight that more than one of the premier conservatives in the old German culture Oswald Spengler referring positively to the German political tradition as "authoritarian socialist".
Today, it is why we have "anti globalist" conservatives celebrating an Argentina men declaring the State as evil and needing to be abolished thus giving power to everything they claim to be opposed to. This merchant-"RW" outlook is incapable of understanding the way power works nor the type of political structure(Authority & Socialism) needed to combat it. Until this merchant money worshiping RW tradition is combated nothing can be done to combat the powers that needed to be combated. It is the culture of the Knight vs the culture of the Merchant.
Sorry for writing my own version of a substack post in your comments.
This all boils down to "Jews didn't play fair like we Europeans understand fairness." If this is all true then historically Jews appear to have played a good game and continue to do so, high IQ or not. Moreover, I don't see how fair Europeans were when they colonised, enslaved and exploited for their wealth in the past. Just because the Jewish playbook continues to reap them success as a collective diaspora, whereas colonialism went past its sell-by date, doesn't mean there's anything more nefarious going on than there is in any other sphere of current human endeavour predicated on power—it's all ridden with nepotism and the notion of meritocracy has been proven to be a scam in Europe, America, and everywhere else.
From the perspective of the Germans, Werner Sombart did not make a good name for himself through his writings on the Jewish question - if one simply understands him directly. However, it is necessary to view him in the context of his time, which was just before World War I. Even though Bismarck had introduced social laws about 20 years earlier, the Germans were still under pressure to prevent socialist movements, such as those occurring in the Russian Empire. The situation at the time did not really look rosy, and definitely, social upheavals were still present. For this reason, one must ask why the apartheid of the Jews was so central in Europe. It is not as simple as one might think, that Jews could not study, but the academy was not benevolent towards them in this regard. Max Weber also saw this, who was massively against this attitude of the academy and repeatedly emphasized how his ideal type should not be misused to mean that it wanted to depict reality; Sombart did not adhere to this. Even if Sombart’s ideal-typical analysis was technically correct in the scientific view of the time, it is nevertheless clearly antisemitic to read, because it precisely does not grasp the core of why social action is charged with certain types and precisely in this process, the phenomena emerge - it simply reduces them like the science of racial hygiene at the time. The problem here is much more the question of why an image of a Jew was necessary in the purpose-rational world of the early 20th century? And precisely this question allows us to read the problems in this way before World War II.
Calvin Coolidge described the influence of Jewish lore, Jewish law, Jewish culture and the Jewish spirit, as expressed in the Bible, upon the development of the United States. He quoted the historian, Lecky, who said that “Hebraic mortar cemented the foundations of American democracy.”
This work is very important. Thank you, Joseph.
The recent “debate” between Alex Jones and Brother Nathaniel touches on the establishment of stock exchanges as a fulcrum of jewish power, with Alex trying (and failing) to claim London’s exchange was a gentile operation. Thank you for making this important information accessible and tying it in to more recent scholarship
I checked the original German text: the passage is as follows regarding the quote including Slavs:
"Das nur noch von Slaven, Negern, und Juden bewohnt sein wird und in dem die Juden..."
"Slav" translates to "Slaw" or "Slawiche" (Slavic)
Whereas clearly it is written "Slaven" that translates to "Slave". A classic misdirection throwing in the Slavic people's lot in with the Jews.
Great article. The reason jews and capitalism/money power go together is because it's the most undemocratic form of power, and allows a small number of people to hold all the power in a system by simply stacking capital.
Great piece, Joey. I just order Sombart's book. Are you familiar with the economist Michael Hudson? I just ran across a fascinating interview with him. His economics seems extremely compatible with national socialism, though I expect he'd recoil at the suggestion. He basically points to non-productive finance capitalism as the major ill of our world (though he certainly doesn't connect it to Jews).
https://youtu.be/4cQbyYBUvzY?si=5KbSQGmbQmaP1Mu1
I recommend Sombart's "Traders and Heroes" comparing the values and political tradition of the Anglo-Liberal world and the Prussian-German culture. This conflict was highly emphasized on both sides with liberal countries declaring Germany any enemy of Western Civilization due to its failure to embrace liberal democracy.
In fact, propaganda during WW2 from the Atlantic side was a recreation of WW1 propaganda with Nazi's being the rebirth of the evil Prussian authoritarian threat to democracy and freedom. It was only decades after WW2 did anti Nazism become focused upon antisemitism and the holocaust.
This conflict between German-Prussian and Anglo-Atlantic culture is not talked about anymore, the far right today tends to latch on exclusively to the antisemitic world outlook that was thrust to the forefront of German nationalist politics after the rise of Bolshevism and WW1 defeat. I happen to have the unpopular opinion in these circles that the conflict between these 2 political traditions is still the real conflict of out time and the future of the West.
The German political tradition is not merely in conflict with liberalism but is ultimately the antithesis of what is today considered to be conservative or RW politics due to the dominance of Anglo American culture. Nothing can highlight that more than one of the premier conservatives in the old German culture Oswald Spengler referring positively to the German political tradition as "authoritarian socialist".
Today, it is why we have "anti globalist" conservatives celebrating an Argentina men declaring the State as evil and needing to be abolished thus giving power to everything they claim to be opposed to. This merchant-"RW" outlook is incapable of understanding the way power works nor the type of political structure(Authority & Socialism) needed to combat it. Until this merchant money worshiping RW tradition is combated nothing can be done to combat the powers that needed to be combated. It is the culture of the Knight vs the culture of the Merchant.
Sorry for writing my own version of a substack post in your comments.
Fantastic Post Joe.
Thank you- a grounded, fact based counterpoint to the current zeitgeist
This all boils down to "Jews didn't play fair like we Europeans understand fairness." If this is all true then historically Jews appear to have played a good game and continue to do so, high IQ or not. Moreover, I don't see how fair Europeans were when they colonised, enslaved and exploited for their wealth in the past. Just because the Jewish playbook continues to reap them success as a collective diaspora, whereas colonialism went past its sell-by date, doesn't mean there's anything more nefarious going on than there is in any other sphere of current human endeavour predicated on power—it's all ridden with nepotism and the notion of meritocracy has been proven to be a scam in Europe, America, and everywhere else.
From the perspective of the Germans, Werner Sombart did not make a good name for himself through his writings on the Jewish question - if one simply understands him directly. However, it is necessary to view him in the context of his time, which was just before World War I. Even though Bismarck had introduced social laws about 20 years earlier, the Germans were still under pressure to prevent socialist movements, such as those occurring in the Russian Empire. The situation at the time did not really look rosy, and definitely, social upheavals were still present. For this reason, one must ask why the apartheid of the Jews was so central in Europe. It is not as simple as one might think, that Jews could not study, but the academy was not benevolent towards them in this regard. Max Weber also saw this, who was massively against this attitude of the academy and repeatedly emphasized how his ideal type should not be misused to mean that it wanted to depict reality; Sombart did not adhere to this. Even if Sombart’s ideal-typical analysis was technically correct in the scientific view of the time, it is nevertheless clearly antisemitic to read, because it precisely does not grasp the core of why social action is charged with certain types and precisely in this process, the phenomena emerge - it simply reduces them like the science of racial hygiene at the time. The problem here is much more the question of why an image of a Jew was necessary in the purpose-rational world of the early 20th century? And precisely this question allows us to read the problems in this way before World War II.
Calvin Coolidge described the influence of Jewish lore, Jewish law, Jewish culture and the Jewish spirit, as expressed in the Bible, upon the development of the United States. He quoted the historian, Lecky, who said that “Hebraic mortar cemented the foundations of American democracy.”