The basic plank of Karl Marx’s communist creed is that the rich are the incarnation of all the world’s evil, and must be exterminated from the face of the earth. Once these nasty rich, these “Capitalists” have been destroyed, the “proletariat,” supposedly the working class, will take over, and there will be no more exploitation of the workers. Ipso facto, all problems, which are basically a matter of economics anyway (so the theory goes) will have been solved. If we will only get rid of those damn “Capitalists,” we could have a beautiful new world order. Class distinctions will fade …
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Jews And Communism In South Africa – Part 4
For the most part, the Jews had come to South Africa from Lithuania at the turn of the century. They had been popular at first, but by the mid-1930`s this was no longer the case. The Jews had become heavily urbanized. In Johannesburg, they constituted 17 per cent of the population and were sufficiently conspicuous so that the metropolis was sometimes referred to, not as Jo burg, but as Jewburg. They aroused envy and some rancor during the years of depression because they controlled a large part of the business of Johannesburg and other cities. Anti-Semitism was fed by the …