Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Murray Rothbard, Lew Rockwell and Scientific Racism

In his review of Herrnstein and Murray's 'The Bell Curve', Murray Rothbard praised the book for "expressing in massively stupefying scholarly detail what everyone has always known but couldn't dare to express about race, intelligence, and heritability". Rothbard reached the following conclusion:

SO: WHY TALK ABOUT RACE AT ALL?

If, then, the Race Question is really a problem for statists and not for paleos, why should we talk about the race matter at all? Why should it be a political concern for us; why not leave the issue entirely to the scientists?

Two reasons we have already mentioned; to celebrate the victory of freedom of inquiry and of truth for its own sake; and a bullet through the heart of the egalitarian-socialist project. But there is a third reason as well: as a powerful defense of the results of the free market. If and when we as populists and libertarians abolish the welfare state in all of its aspects, and property rights and the free market shall be triumphant once more, many individuals and groups will predictably not like the end result. In that case, those ethnic and other groups who might be concentrated in lower-income or less prestigious occupations, guided by their socialistic mentors, will predictably raise the cry that free-market capitalism is evil and "discriminatory" and that therefore collectivism is needed to redress the balance. In that case, the intelligence argument will become useful to defend the market economy and the free society from ignorant or self-serving attacks. In short; racialist science is properly not an act of aggression or a cover for oppression of one group over another, but, on the contrary, an operation in defense of private property against assaults by aggressors.

Monday, July 05, 2010

Nazi crimes in Soviet footage

This blog contains a collection of stills I took from various Soviet wartime documentaries available on YouTube, showing devastation wrought by and victims of the Nazi invaders on the territory of the Soviet Union - villages set on fire, buildings and infrastructure destroyed within the context of a "scorched earth" policy, prisoners of war or civilians shot, hanged, burned, starved or left to die of exposure in the cold of winter. The victims of these crimes are Jewish and non-Jewish Soviet non-combatants, the latter probably predominating except in the Drobitski Yar sequences mentioned in the previous blog.