With all the bizarre revelations about how the Biden regime suborned Tw*tter — and now, how it now traded an arms merchant not for an imprisoned Marine imprisoned by Russia on trumped-up espionage charges, but for a DIE box-ticker millionaire sportswoman arrested on apparently read drug offenses, and who despises her own country — allow me to turn briefly to a historical bit of insanity.
The German playwright Bertolt Brecht had two musical partners. Best known is Kurt Weill (a former student of Ferrucio Busoni), for whom he wrote the libretto of The Three Penny Opera (whence “Mack The Knife”), The Rise and Fall of Mahagonny (whence “Alabama Song”, as performed by The Doors and by David Bowie), and several other successful musical theatre works. (Weill also composed Jewish-themed works.)
In the same circles in Weimar-era Berlin ran Hanns Eisler [the double “n” is not a typo], Brecht’s first musical partner, after whom a conservatory in Berlin is named. (This is how I went down a rabbit hole.) During the Third Reich, Eisler was in exile abroad, eventually settling in the US where he composed soundtracks for a number of Hollywood movies, two of them (Hangmen Also Die and None But The Lonely Heart) being nominated for Oscars.
Hanns the son of Austrian Jewish philosophy professor Rudolf Eisler and a Lutheran mother, had an older sister named Ruth Fischer (née Elfriede Eisler — Fischer was her mother’s maiden name, which she at first used as a pen name, then as her legal name). In 1917 she co-founded the Austrian Communist Party (KPÖ, Kommunistische Partei Österreichs) with her husband, medical student Paul Friedländer. (Her other brother Gerhart Eisler was also involved.) Following a spat within the party and with her husband, she left Austria and settled in Berlin, where she became the head of the Berlin branch of the KPD (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands).
She and Trotsky confidant Arkadi Maslow emerged as the leaders of the left wing of the KPD.
In her attempts to broaden the base of the party to nationalist-minded students, she even gave speeches to National Socialists. Thus she spoke in 1923 to a group of Nazi students:
“Those who call for a struggle against Jewish capital are already, gentlemen, class strugglers, even if they don’t know it. You are against Jewish capital and want to fight the speculators. Very good. Throw down the Jewish capitalists, hang them from the lamp-post, stamp on them.”
Good grief.
Fischer later was expelled from the KPD for what later would be called Trotskyism. She declared Stalin [y”sh] “the leader of counter-revolution in the USSR” and founded a rival faction. During the Third Reich, she fled first to France, then made it to the US in 1941. She would later take the unusual step of testifying against her own brothers before the HUAC, the House Un-American Activities Committee. She passed away in 1960, survived by one son (raised by her grandparents) who became an applied mathematician and mathematical physicist of some note.
A few reflections:
• communism (and, in our day, radical environmentalism) are essentially g-dless religions, and a Jew embracing them to me is like a Jew converting to another faith. Google “Pablo Christiani” for an example of where there are no worse judeophobes than biologically Jewish converts to other religions
• I have argued many times before that Communism and National Socialism are not “opposites” but competing brands of the same evil (totalitarian collectivism). Nowhere was this more apparent than in Weimar-era Berlin, where the two parties competed for the same “customer base”, the NSDAP’s left wing (led by Gregor Strasser) was strongest, and where even a hybrid movement called “National Bolshevism” emerged led by Ernst Niekisch
• as for the family dynamics, I can’t help think of the Iron Maiden track, “The Thin Line Between Love And Hate”
Spin, strangeness, and charm 