Comments on: Why were there so many Jews in SDS?

By: Sam J.

Sam J. — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 00:42:31 +0000

Clearly a Jewish mentality. Rail against the Goyish schools, never giving one single thought that if they didn’t like it there was no one stopping them from making their own as the WASP did. No, they have to take over and destroy the Goys’ school.

Notice that now we’re fighting for the Jews instead of US interest, all this killing is a fine thing.

By: Graham

Graham — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 19:37:20 +0000

His explication of Cuddihy’s thesis regarding Marx and Freud was interesting. I had considered those Jewish thinkers within the context of the general European encounter with modernity, and even as specifically Jewish takes on that encounter, but not really as aspects of a specifically Jewish struggle with modernity. If anything, that doesn’t go far enough into the actual 19c struggles within the Jewish religion as it confronted population growth, wildly different group experiences in the various European countries with Jewish populations [German versus Russian Jews, etc.], and the transformation from mainly Orthodox religiosity and closed community to competing forms of the religion, assimilationist trends, and the rise of secular ideological belief systems competing for Jewish allegiance. Usually fronted by Jews.

But I digress. I was actually touched by Rudd’s unreconstructed mid-century faith that Freud was peddling very much beyond his own neuroses. I mean, insight up to some useful points, but he went off the rails fast.

By: Brooklyn

Brooklyn — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:29:28 +0000

This was a pretty long winded way on his part to say that his middle-class, God-free, lox-and-bagels-only, ethnic background wasn’t satisfying enough and that he (and everyone else he refers to in his speech) simply converted to a religion that he felt was much more compelling.

By: Searpea

Searpea — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 10:52:00 +0000

Wow, did they get the reason for the Vietnamese fighting wrong. totally wrong. That this guy still believes that the Vietnamese were fighting due to “revolt against U.S. domination” is quite pathetic.

By: Wang Weilin

Wang Weilin — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 05:00:37 +0000

Criticizing racism by emphasizing race. Hypocrisy much?

By: Kgaard

Kgaard — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 18:36:06 +0000

This is fabulous. I just bought Cuddihy’s book a couple weeks ago. Great to see this guy putting the pieces together about his own personal history.

By: Adar

Adar — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 14:45:47 +0000

“I myself joined the cult of Che Guevara, putting posters of him on my apartment wall and aching to be a revolutionary hero like him. He wasn’t very Jewish, incidentally.”

Ernest Lynch. An Irishman with a slight bit of Spanish inside of him.

By: Rollory

Rollory — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 13:10:23 +0000

“a few months after the United States attacked Vietnam with main force troops”

I didn’t read any of the rest. If he’s going to start lying that fast the rest of it is worthless.