Europa: The Last Battle: Difference between revisions

'''Europa: The Last Battle''' is a ten-part series made by swedish neonazi Tobias Bratt. It is focused on Nazi apologia, historical revisionism and conspiracy theories about jews and communism. It's composed of wholly unfounded and sourceless claims mixed in with known historical facts, which makes it hard for the average person to seperate truth from falsehood. Normally, sourceless claims can be dissmissed without investigation, but since it's widely cited by neonazis on the internet, we have taken it upon ourselfs to take every claim seriously, and investigate it as if it were true.

'''Claim''' (02:22): ''"in the middle of the 19th century Moses Hess formulated the first written principles for communism"'' This claim is loosly based on Hess association with Marx and Engels, and Moses view that history will culminate in the introduction of common property,<ref>https://assets.cambridge.org/052138/7566/frontmatter/0521387566_frontmatter.pdf"Our era strives towards equality – this cannot be denied; but [does this imply] that it is headed immediately towards the community of property? Let this happen one day in the future, let it be the last goal of ageing mankind."</ref> formulated in his Spinozist book ''Die heilige Geschichte der Menschheit'' (1837), which had no explicit mention of communism. Hess was, however, not the first person to argue for the abolition of private property, nor the first to formulate a political platform with the word communism, neither was he the first person to use the word communism. It's real origins stem from people and groups arguing for a communal organisation of society in France and England during the mid 19th century, ''Commun, Communion'' and ''community.'' It can not be pinned to one person.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20201218153511/http://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/1385668/2a0d6d0b045feef2adb6ae76ec9a2c92.pdf?1509502303</ref> First attested in writing - meaning '''first record of political principles''' - by John Goodwin Barmby in 1841, founder of the utopian, christian, London Communist Propaganda Society.<ref>https://www.etymonline.com/word/communism</ref> People arguing for the abolition of private property (as Engels put it, the meaning of communism in one sentence), predated the 19th century. For example the French Catholic abbé Jean Meslier's ''Testament'' (1729) '''Verdict''': False

'''Claim''' (06:40): ''Marx openly encouraged genocide against slavs, referring to them as "racial trash"''. There is absolutely zero record of this. He would routinely critique precisely such racial incitements.<ref>This was done not in order to reconcile us with the other provinces, but to stir up hatred between the provinces and to '''exploit''' the '''national enmity''' between the '''Germans''' and '''Slavs''', and the regional hatred of every petty German province against all the neighboring provinces, '''in the interests of patriarchal feudal despotism'''. Divide et impera!

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Marx_Articles_from_the_NRZ.pdf</ref> We can nonetheless note that Marx and Engels were both racist, antisemitic and sexist in private communication. '''Verdict:''' False.