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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
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The spreading spirit of nihilism , October 27, 2007
This is the revised edition that has been updated to 2007. The author seeks to explain why the world hates Christians, Jews, Americans and Israelis. Our enemies are mortal foes of one another; it is the hatred of America and Israel that unites them. Wearing different masks, the forces of evil are very similar in their methods and their madness. Ayn Rand called them Collectivists, Walker calls them Sinisterists. They are gangs all using the lie with the aim of attaining direct power over our minds and bodies. The political spectrum is not linear but circular; there is a spot where the Far Left, Far Right and Radical Islamists converge.
Chapter 2 deals with the suppression of information and the distortion of facts on the history of the 1920s and the next two decades. For that reason, the book contains many quotes and a bibliography of old books - neglected or forgotten works from 1913 to 1954 that provide information on the nature of Socialism, Nazism and Bolshevism as recorded by writers at the time.
Other chapters deal with the historical development of the aforementioned ideologies and are titled Sinisterist Radical Islam (See also The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism: Adolf Hitler and Haj Amin al-Husseini by Chuck Morse), Sinisterist Fascism, Sinisterist Nazism and Other Crypto-Leftist Sinisterists. It was interesting to learn of the danse macabre in Europe in the 1930s - the shifting alliances between Italy, Germany, the Soviet Union and other states which resulted in the Hitler-Stalin Pact.
Chapter 8 is about the USA, the first philo-Judaic land founded upon Judeo-Christian ethics and sympathetic to the Jewish people. America is clearly different. The author approaches the next subject with caution. The chapter is titled The Untold History of Christians and Jews, wherein he first of all admits that it is not the whole story. He provides many examples of friendly relations between Jews and Christians down the ages, as well as of instances when the one oppressed the other.
Arguing that it is a sinisterist strategy to make Christians and Jews hate one another, he remarks that both religions have very high standards of thought and behavior and that in both cases this has led to better societies. There is truth and merit in his approach, but I think sincere Christians would wish to know more about how the church treated the Jews.
Walker is silent about the hateful statements of the early Church Fathers, the loathsome words of Martin Luther and other instances of hatred. Certain passages in the New Testament are nowadays delicately explained as a "quarrel between brothers" but remain problematic. The respected author Geza Vermes has discussed these at length, for example in his book The Passion: The True Story of an Event That Changed Human History.
I urge the interested reader to consult books like Our Hands Are Stained with Blood by Michael L Brown, Why the Jews? by Dennis Prager, The Anguish of the Jews by Edward H Flannery and Standing With Israel by David Brog, to gain a more comprehensive understanding of this painful subject. This is of cardinal importance today on account of the enabling role of certain churches in the spread of the cult of Israel-hatred.
Chapter 10 refutes the myths that Jews caused Bolshevism or that Christians caused Nazism, with detailed discussions of Christian German leaders who opposed Hitler and of Trotsky's callous attitude to his own Jewish people. The next chapter dissects the elements of Sinisterism which include a form of pseudo-goodness, worship of the lie (cleverly mixed with half-truths), the distortion of language, the use of the "unselfish We" and the tactic of demonizing opponents.
The final chapter is a discussion of Sinisterism versus Goodness. The Biblical religions Judaism and Christianity are indigestible to the sinisterist. Walker mentions secular leftists, radical Islamists, progressives and nature worshippers as amongst those who deny the existence of truth. Those who embrace the lie are committing moral suicide. Those who embrace truth will ultimately find the goodness of God, even though they stumble many times.
The book concludes with a bibliography of old books and a bibliography of other valuable books. Unfortunately there is no index and I would have expected a correction of all the typos and spelling errors in the first edition. Not so. For example, Leni Riefenstahl is spelt correctly once but thereafter the Nazi filmmaker and photographer is called Lili Riesenthal. This detracts from the very insightful and informative writing.
Other highly recommended books that confirm Walker's conclusions include Unholy Alliance by David Horowitz, Leftism Revisited: From De Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot by Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Anti-Americanism by Jean-Francois Revel, What's Left? by Nick Cohen and The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism by Bernard Harrison. To understand the convergence of sinisterism on the international stage, particularly as it manifests in the doomed alliance between Russia and the Iran-Syria-Hezbollah-Hamas axis, I recommend Epicenter by Joel C Rosenberg.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Walker exposes the myth of the left-right political spectrum, June 20, 2009
With a wealth of documentation, Bruce Walker reveals the shocking truth that there is no such thing as right wing extremism. All the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century were far left dictatorships. He uses contemporaneous source material to reveal the practical identity of Fascism, Nazism and Bolshevism. Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler were all Marxists at heart. The notion of right wing extremism is a concoction of today's Marxists, a straw man to provide cover for their destructive agenda.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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those who do not know history are doomed, August 9, 2009
This author has performed an excellent service, as has Jonah Goldberg. The extreme right is the libertarian as in leave me alone and I will leave you alone. The fascists, the nazis, the socialists, the communists and all the rest are in fact all variations of the same hideous beast. It is polite to call them socialists and rude to call them nazis (which is why the left uses that particular brand of leftist as a slur to dedfame the right). Make no mistake about them. They are evil and while the cover of this book may seem garish and may garner a few funny looks at the local Starbucks, it is an excellent primer on those who would deprive you of all you hold dear, yes, even that cup of latte. We know enough and we certainly have history on our side. Will we ever put 2 + 2 together and come up with the correct calculation. Read the book and even if you do not (as I do not personally) think that knowlegdge is power, for sure, ignorance will not be bliss when the evil ones succeed in their final march through our institutions so read the book.
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by Robert Spencer
