02-07-2017, 05:03 PM
(02-07-2017, 04:32 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(02-07-2017, 02:27 PM)SomeGuy Wrote:Quote:Reading "The Naked Communist" and especially "The Naked Capitalist" it's apparent that the twisted "horizontal" view was already being developed by the Skousens, themselves devotees of Quigley and various long discredited anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
"The global elites" = The Jews, etc.
It's all a bunch of bull shit. Dangerous bull shit.
Carroll Quigley? Are you claiming that he was anti-Semitic? If so, please cite me something anti-Semitic that he wrote. Pretty sure the elites he was talking about were almost all WASPS.
Nor do I remember him having been "discredited". Citation?
I mean, is a guy who sees Russians/Chinese behind everything that happens ("Where are my car keys! DAMN THOSE COMMIE BASTARDS!") really criticizing other people for being conspiracy theorists?
Please note the "and" operand. Quigley was not anti Semitic as far as I can tell. And certainly he was an academic, in contrast with the crackpot Skousen gang (who can't shoot straight). Nonetheless, his model of an "Atlantacist" cabal running the whole world - hell, that is right up Neo-Nazis' alleys plus these days also is in synch with Eurasianist beliefs and certain radical Islamic ones. Quigley cannot be blamed but unfortunately many brigands have found what he wrote to be some sort of cause celebre and twisted it to their own designs.
So, are you disputing the veracity of his claims directly, or just indirectly by playing guilt-by association semantic games?