Cultural Insurrections:essays on Western Civilization, Jewish Influence, & Anti-semitism [Hardcover]

Kevin MacDonald (Author), VIRGINIA ABERNETHY (Foreword)

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Publication Date: 2008

Jewish intellectual and political movements are a powerful force in Western societies. Marxism, Zionism, neoconservatism, psychoanalysis, and multiculturalism have trans-formed Western self-consciousness, shattered ancient political orders through wars and revolutions, and promoted the ongoing demographic dispossession of European peoples by Third World immigrants. The Jewish role in these movements is often the subject of fierce partisanship, on all sides, but is seldom the subject of careful and dispassionate scientific analysis. Kevin MacDonald has pioneered the evolutionary analysis of Jewish religious, intellectual, and political movements as strategies for achieving collective survival, advancement, and influence in his trilogy A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy (1994), Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism (1998), and The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements (1998). In the present volume, MacDonald extends and refines his analysis in chapters on Zionism and the Jewish role in Soviet Communism, neoconservatism, and the promotion of racial integration. MacDonald also devotes chapters to the anti-Semitism of Henry Ford, the psychological basis of ethnocentrism, the unique characteristics of Western civilization, and what Jewish group evolutionary strategies can contribute to its survival. MacDonald's essays are not only models of scientific rigor, broad research, and deep insight, but of courage, candor, and clarity. This edition is hardcover.

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• Hardcover: 432 pages
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0017STCBC
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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45 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The courage and the integrity of this man is remarkable!, May 9, 2008

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This review is from: Cultural Insurrections: Essays on Western Civilization, Jewish Influence, and Anti-Semitism (Hardcover)

The courage and the integrity of this man is remarkable! This book is essential reading not just for scholars and students, but for anyone concerned to understand, and perhaps to alter, the dominant trends of Western civilization. Kevin MacDonald's study of the Jewish people in sociobiological perspective HAS NOT helped his career. There is a shocking and brutal honesty shown by MacDonald in approaching his subject. A MUST READ!

59 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant collection of essays, May 6, 2008

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This book deserves the widest possible readership. Despite vicious attacks on him by various academicians

as well as by the truly loathsome SPLC, Cal State Long Beach Professor of Psychology Kevin Macdonald

has courageously continued to produce scholarly analyses of the power and influence purchased in our

country by Jewish wealth. He is especially insightful on the subjects of the Jewishness of the Neocons

(largely responsible for the disaster in Iraq) and on the long history of Jewish lobbying for unlimited immigration. Since the parameters of acceptable discourse about these and other topics are almost

entirely determined by Jewish sources (which are,as always, chiefly motivated by the question "Is It Good

for the Jews?"), it is especially important that brave voices of dissent from Zionist orthodoxy be available

to thinking Americans.

22 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Great Balls of Fire", October 23, 2008

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This review is from: Cultural Insurrections:essays on Western Civilization, Jewish Influence, & Anti-semitism (Hardcover)

Jewish Intellectual And Political Movement are a powerful force in Western societies. Marxism, Zionism, neoconservatism, psychoanalysis and multiculturalism have transformed Western self-consciousness, shattered ancient political orders through wars and revolutions, and promoted the ongoing demographic dispossession of European peoples by Third World immigrants. The Jewish role in these movements is often the subject of fierce partisanship, on all sides, but is seldom the subject of careful and dispassionate scientific analysis as in this work!