YouTuber and overall wonderful human being ContraPoints, incidentally, did a critique of the white nationalist mindset regarding this kind of paranoia, which for the sake of academia I feel should be here in the annotation:

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Quick version for those of you who are either disabled or short on time:

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For a Jewish critique of Black Hebrew Israelites and this kind of thinking from the perspective of a POC, I recommend these two articles from the blogger & writer MaNishtana:
* Confoundment Keepers
* An Open Letter to Forward.com, Hebrew-Israelites, and Everyone Else In the World

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Short video on the subject:

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In which I invite the wrath of the Kendrick stans upon me.

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An American communist who later joined the Bolsheviks in Russia and made an account of the October Revolution in his book Ten Days That Shook The World, which later became the basis for the 1981 Academy Award winning film Reds.

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The Russian Empire had a long history of antisemitic violence dating all the way back to the 1880s. While the USSR would have it’s own controversial history with the matter, Lenin is none the less right.

The provisional government of Russia would carry on this tradition, printing a viciously antisemitic caricature of Lenin’s ally Leon Trotsky during the Civil War.

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Max Stirner (1806 – 1856) was a German philosopher, best known for his contributions to nihilism, psychoanalysis, existentialism, and individualist anarchism. Little is known about Stirner’s personal life, aside from information provided by his contemporary, Friedrich Engels.

His principle work is The Ego and It’s Own, in which he posits that the sole duty the individual has is to their own egoistic pursuits, and that all other things are “spooks” designed to impede these pursuits. Among these spooks he includes things such as ideology, capitalism, communism, religion, parents, the state and even personal property.

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Yes, that’s generally how that works. However, the rich are not dehumanized in a capitalist society, they are often treated as the highest thing to aspire to. In right-libertarian circles, they’re even seen as the Nietzschean Übermensch. To attempt to equate criticism of the rich in a capitalist society with their dehumanization is not only pathetic, it reeks of licking their boots.

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FUCKING. LOL.

The state’s relation to capital (contrary to Austrian economist’s views) is a mutually beneficial one. The state maintains class division and the protection of private property (not to be confused with personal property), and the upper class funnels money into various political campaigns in order to maintain their controlling interest. State-sponsored injustice towards the rich does not, and by default cannot, exist in a capitalist society.

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