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Mia Wong

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Behind the Bastards
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A long time ago, I did a bunch of episodes called Class and the Culture War. And one of the points that I make of that episode is that one of the arguments that the Canadian Jewish Marxist historian Moish Pistone makes about what the Holocaust was. was this attempt to pit the concrete part of capital against the abstract part of capital, right?

Behind the Bastards
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A long time ago, I did a bunch of episodes called Class and the Culture War. And one of the points that I make of that episode is that one of the arguments that the Canadian Jewish Marxist historian Moish Pistone makes about what the Holocaust was. was this attempt to pit the concrete part of capital against the abstract part of capital, right?

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 180

A long time ago, I did a bunch of episodes called Class and the Culture War. And one of the points that I make of that episode is that one of the arguments that the Canadian Jewish Marxist historian Moish Pistone makes about what the Holocaust was. was this attempt to pit the concrete part of capital against the abstract part of capital, right?

Behind the Bastards
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Where the concrete part of capital is like the nation and the worker and the factory and like the boss, right? And all of these concrete things were pitted against the quote-unquote abstract part of capital, which is to say like quote-unquote Jewish financiers

Behind the Bastards
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Where the concrete part of capital is like the nation and the worker and the factory and like the boss, right? And all of these concrete things were pitted against the quote-unquote abstract part of capital, which is to say like quote-unquote Jewish financiers

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 180

Where the concrete part of capital is like the nation and the worker and the factory and like the boss, right? And all of these concrete things were pitted against the quote-unquote abstract part of capital, which is to say like quote-unquote Jewish financiers

Behind the Bastards
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And all of the sort of, like, weird collection of, like, modifiers that gets associated with, like, you know, the rootless cosmopolitanism, like, the globalism, like, all of this shit, right? And what the Nazis did was embody all of that stuff into just a figure of the Jewish person.

Behind the Bastards
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And all of the sort of, like, weird collection of, like, modifiers that gets associated with, like, you know, the rootless cosmopolitanism, like, the globalism, like, all of this shit, right? And what the Nazis did was embody all of that stuff into just a figure of the Jewish person.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 180

And all of the sort of, like, weird collection of, like, modifiers that gets associated with, like, you know, the rootless cosmopolitanism, like, the globalism, like, all of this shit, right? And what the Nazis did was embody all of that stuff into just a figure of the Jewish person.

Behind the Bastards
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And his argument, and this is arguing about, like, sort of structural anti-Semitism and what the Holocaust was, was that, like, that was what the Nazi revolution was. That's what the liquidation of, like, and this is how Pessoa describes, like, liquidation of the Jews.

Behind the Bastards
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And his argument, and this is arguing about, like, sort of structural anti-Semitism and what the Holocaust was, was that, like, that was what the Nazi revolution was. That's what the liquidation of, like, and this is how Pessoa describes, like, liquidation of the Jews.

Behind the Bastards
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And his argument, and this is arguing about, like, sort of structural anti-Semitism and what the Holocaust was, was that, like, that was what the Nazi revolution was. That's what the liquidation of, like, and this is how Pessoa describes, like, liquidation of the Jews.

Behind the Bastards
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This is what the Holocaust, this is what the genocide was, was their attempt to destroy the, like, abstract part of this thing by pitting it against the concrete part of this thing. And this is what these fucking people are also doing in their own way, right? Like... Yeah, they're just doing it with, like, the price of eggs or, like, the availability of housing. Yeah, right.

Behind the Bastards
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This is what the Holocaust, this is what the genocide was, was their attempt to destroy the, like, abstract part of this thing by pitting it against the concrete part of this thing. And this is what these fucking people are also doing in their own way, right? Like... Yeah, they're just doing it with, like, the price of eggs or, like, the availability of housing. Yeah, right.

Behind the Bastards
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This is what the Holocaust, this is what the genocide was, was their attempt to destroy the, like, abstract part of this thing by pitting it against the concrete part of this thing. And this is what these fucking people are also doing in their own way, right? Like... Yeah, they're just doing it with, like, the price of eggs or, like, the availability of housing. Yeah, right.

Behind the Bastards
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And, you know, and it's also, like, these people are, like, unhinged anti-Semitic, right? Because this is all part of the same ideology. They just sort of, like, they're doing this shit in different ways and they haven't, like... Yeah, I don't know. Like if these people are in power for like a decade, we might just get this right where they're literally doing the Holocaust again.

Behind the Bastards
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And, you know, and it's also, like, these people are, like, unhinged anti-Semitic, right? Because this is all part of the same ideology. They just sort of, like, they're doing this shit in different ways and they haven't, like... Yeah, I don't know. Like if these people are in power for like a decade, we might just get this right where they're literally doing the Holocaust again.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 180

And, you know, and it's also, like, these people are, like, unhinged anti-Semitic, right? Because this is all part of the same ideology. They just sort of, like, they're doing this shit in different ways and they haven't, like... Yeah, I don't know. Like if these people are in power for like a decade, we might just get this right where they're literally doing the Holocaust again.

Behind the Bastards
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But like we're not at that point yet. But we're at the point is where like this this kind of like under like this kind of fascist understanding of the nation and masculinity and like the concrete versus the abstract and like these figures can be like embodied in history. This is also what the administration is doing with immigrants, right?

Behind the Bastards
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But like we're not at that point yet. But we're at the point is where like this this kind of like under like this kind of fascist understanding of the nation and masculinity and like the concrete versus the abstract and like these figures can be like embodied in history. This is also what the administration is doing with immigrants, right?