Reviews for Judaism Eternal

The average rating for Judaism Eternal based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-08-04 00:00:00 Jeffrey Schneider An attempt to understand and explain the cultural revolution in the context of the Chinese revolution. It was written in 1967 when the cultural revolution was at its height and information in and about the country had dried up. So while it has some interesting ideas and brings up some revealing facts often obscured, some of its predictions did not really materialise. It also has several limitations associated with the left communist tendencies. At one point in a surprising turn Brendel downplays and dismisses the Shanghai councils of 1927, the reason? Well the numerical size of the working class was so small it must be impossible for any genuine working class revolutionary action...

Review # 2 was written on 2014-05-28 00:00:00 Harry Hawkins "In the struggle for these objectives Bolshevism will eventually be seen to have been a monstrous aberration, the last garb donned by a bourgeois ideology as it was being subverted at the roots. Bolshevism's emphasis on the incapacity of the masses to achieve a socialist consciousness through their own experience of life under capitalism, its prescription of a hierarchically structured "vanguard party" and of "centralization to fight the centralized state power of the bourgeoisie", its proclamation of the "historical birthright" of those who have accepted a particular vision of society (and of its future) and the decreed right to dictate this vision to others - if necessary at the point of a gun - all these will be recognized for what they are: the last attempt of bourgeois society to reassert its ordained division into leaders and led, and to maintain authoritarian social relations in all aspects of human life. "To be meaningful the revolution to come will have to be profoundly libertarian. It will be based on a real assimilation of the whole Russian experience. It will refuse to exchange one set of rulers for another, one bunch of exploiters for another, one lot of priests for another, one authoritarianism for another, or one constricting orthodoxy for another. It will have to root out all such false solutions which are but so many residual manifestations of man's continued alienation. A real understanding of Bolshevism will have to be an essential ingredient in any revolution which aims at transcending all forms of alienation and of self-mystification. As the old society crumbles both the bourgeoisie and the bureaucracy will have to be buried under its ruins. The real roots from which they grew will have to be understood. In this gigantic task the revolution to come will find its strength and its inspiration in the real experience of millions, both East and West. If it is even marginally assisted by this little book our efforts will have been well worthwhile."