Thoughts from a thoughtful twitterati, "Philosopher Kin": https://mobile.twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1059037488105316353 Philosopher Kin @rogerahicks Nov 3 .@cocknee1 just reminded me of a tweet in which I criticised the far-left narrative of the #BattleofCableStreet in which Lefties, mainly Jews, prevented by force a march & rally by Oswald Mosley's British fascists. https://t.co/PgNRsiiUGO Since reading @RSkidelsky's biography of #OswaldMosley I've been struck by how, in contrast to communism, fascism is AWAYS demonised. Most of us sympathise with the good, even if misguided, intentions of communists, but never with those of fascists, whose intent is always evil. Why is fascism always assumed to be not just evil, but also of evil intent? Obviously, I can only speculate, but here goes: It is, I suggest, very much a Jewish thing, & testimony to how much influence they have, collectively, over academic, & thus public & political, opinion. … Trust & cooperation is what the whole world is in dire need of, but is lacking, because the state itself is based on a historical web of lies & deceit which serve its primary purpose of facilitating society's self-exploitation to the personal advantage of some over others. Now, back to my patient. Antisemitism is fundamentally a tribal response to perceived Jewish tribalism. No one is to blame for this, because it is a central aspect of evolved human nature, which is tribal & territorial. Instead of demonising it, we need to understand it. It is no coincidence that we are taught to trivialise, ridicule or demonise human tribalism, which serves the state's claim to its subjects'/citizens' tribal loyalty. It is only by understanding human tribalism that we can learn to harness it for the good of ALL. And harness it we must, because, if it is not harnessed for good, it will be harnessed for evil, as it is now, by the state & capital. Again, back to my patient & the wound of antisemitism. Secular Jews were & still are attracted to socialism, because of its internationalism. Socialists see themselves as an ideological tribe or nation, which rejects the natural, racial & ethnic foundations of genuine nationhood, making it very attractive to Jews, who feared, with good reason, the nationalist component of fascism's "national socialism". I hope everyone is beginning to see the importance of understanding human tribalism, as opposed to demonising & suppressing it. The problem with ideological tribalism/nationalism (e.g. One Nation Labour's civic nationalism) is that it has to be imposed from the top down. We are familiar with how fascism & socialism were imposed from the top down, but generally fail to recognise that "liberal democracy" is too, only by more subtle, Orwellian means: https://pic.twitter.com/otmTuD5Zdo If we are to create a more just, humane, genuinely democratic, & above all sustainable world order, we must learn to work with human tribal nature for the good of all, rather suppress, demonise & exploit it according to the demands of state & capital. We naturally look to academics as authorities in understanding their particular field of expertise, but when it come to understanding socio-political reality & the state, academics are blinded by their own dependency on it, as we all are, but also as its employees. I'm asking for the trust & cooperation of ALL academics (not just the Jews amongst you) that I might help you overcome your blindness in regard to understanding our (tribal) selves, society & the state, so that you will cease to be the blind leading the blind. Too late for me to correct now, but I should have said, "testimony to how much influence JEWS have", not THEY, which implies that I am viewing them/Jews as the OTHER, which I'm not. This illustrates the pitfalls of language, esp. in regard to triggering a tribal response. I mention "national socialism" above & put it in quotation marks, because I'm not referring to Nazism, which was a criminally insane abuse of the concept, which I shall rename "multi-national socialism" & characterise thus: Kein Land, Kein Volk & Kein Führer. Rachel Corrie @Woke_Tree Nov 4 Replying to @rogerahicks Destroy nationhood to make things better for a diaspora population, but embrace it for there own nation state Israel. The problem is not respecting the nations of other peoples.