let us take a specific historical event, the Holocaust…
and specifically, Auschwitz…is Auschwitz even possible before
the 20th century?
No, is Auschwitz possible before World War One?
No, it isn’t…the deaths of millions in a war means that we have
legitimized the deaths of millions by any means…
a war is a set piece of theater… we have two counties by conventional
method declaring war on another… we have rousing speeches and
widespread marches and formal declarations leading up to a war…
see the days before World War One… In August of 1914…
if the deaths of millions is legitimized by war, then the deaths of millions
by other means is perfectly legitimized…
Auschwitz becomes possible because of a changing viewpoint that
makes it possible to condone the death of millions within an ism or
an ideology…we are “freed” to condemn millions to death because
they hold different beliefs, different ideologies then we do…
Was Auschwitz so terrible as to prevent concentration camps today?
No, because we have concentration camps today, right now, in
a America that help liberate the concentration camps of the Germans,
help liberate such camps as Auschwitz…
if we approve of concentration camps because of an ism or an
ideology, then we have no better ground to stand upon then the Germans
who operated their concentration camps on grounds of ism’s or ideology…
America has had concentration camps before today… during the Civil war,
both the north and south had concentration camps… such as
Andersonville… so, why should we be so surprised that America
has such an affinity for such barbaric actions as concentration camps…
America which had its genocide in the decimation of the American
Indians and held slavery as the highest ideal of a civilized country…
an America that had slavery since its first days from colonization…
and nary a word disapproving until after the turn of the 19th century…
over 170 years of American history……
we allowed such barbaric practices because our viewpoint allowed it…
the conditions on the ground allowed it…
we felt is was our “right” to engage in the genocide of American Indians
and our right to allow slavery, the ownership of people as property…
and this right still exists as corporations still own people in terms of
capitalism…if people can be fired for engaging in social media, critical
of the company after working hours, then the company owns our work, our
person…because I for one, cannot make a distinction between the work I
do and my person…… one might say, it is not slavery because you can always
quit, but that isn’t true…to leave the working world, to escape having a job,
is to starve to death and that isn’t a choice at all… we must work to have
food on the table and to have health insurance and to become educated…
in other words, in our viewpoint, to have rights in America, one
must first have a job… a job where it is dictated to us what kind
of shoes we can wear and what color shirt we can wear and
what time we must be at work… then and only then can we expect to
have the right to food and due process and health insurance……
you might say, this has nothing to do with Auschwitz…
wrong… it has everything to do with Auschwitz…
because the reason Auschwitz happened is because of a viewpoint
that made it possible…if in our viewpoint, we think of people as
“Subhuman” then we make it possible for us to dehumanized people…
and that allows us to participate in such events as genocides and
the Holocaust…if in our viewpoint……
because we haven’t understood tyranny as being economic as
we have identified it to be political, we still, in our viewpoint,
we still accept the tyranny of corporations, whereas we might fight the same
tyranny in governments…we are economic slaves… a distinction lost
to many people because their viewpoint hasn’t evolved enough to make
such a distinction…
the current rumbling against capitalism is the start of such a distinction,
that the tyranny of the economic is just as bad and evil as a political tyranny…
what is possible and what isn’t possible for a person and for a society/state,
still comes from our viewpoint that make it possible……
if we separate people into different and distinct classes, we make
such events a possibility… in other words, Auschwitz becomes possible
when we to think of, have a viewpoint of people being different then us…
the us vs them problem… as long as we have an us vs them, understanding
of the world, we shall be capable of the Holocaust and capable of Auschwitz…
Our viewpoint that allows us to dehumanize other people allows an Auschwitz
or allows us to be slaves of our modern corporate world…….
The act of tyranny is simply to have the viewpoint that other people are worth less then
we are……. to negate and to dehumanize people is to allow World wars
and to allow the Holocaust and to allows concentration camps and to allow
Auschwitz and to allow slavery…
if you think that democrats are less American then you, if you think that
blacks are less human then you, if you think that Jews are stiff neck Hebrews…
then you have set the stage for a viewpoint that allows concentration camps
and slavery and Auschwitz…
reexamine your viewpoints… do you subscribe to the point of view that
certain people are less then you? Then you believe as the Nazi’s believed,
then you believe as the slave owners believed and you believed as
the perpetrators of the American genocide believed……
I am better then you…
it is all a matter of a viewpoint……
what is your viewpoint?
Kropotkin