A Review: Einstein’s Jewish Science by Steven Gimbel
May 24, 2013
A Review: Einstein’s Jewish Science
by
Steven Gimbel
A Study In Religious Relativity
by
R.E. Prindle
Gimbel, Steven: Einstein’s Jewish Science, 2012, Johns Hopkins Press
There is absolutely only one place to start in reviewing Steven Gimbel’s Einstein’s Jewish Science and that is at the Revolution’s declaration of Jewish emancipation. The year 1789 marks the beginning of the Revolutionary era that ended on 9/11/01.
Actually we have to begin the discussion with some background on Jewish and Aryan
Steven Gimbel
or European differences. The Jewish point of view standing from behind is that Judaism is the stock, the parent tree onto which Christianity, hence Europe, was grafted. Thus Jews confuse Europeanism with Christianity calling all Europeans Christians against all the rules of logic. As Christianity was grafted onto a Jewish source then, it follows that the sap that nourishes Christianity rises through Jewish roots.
While the view from this perspective from behind pleases Jewish vanity, if one steps into the front of the object and views it through the European vantage point another entirely different prospect is presented to the eyes. This is called relativism. In the view of European science, Judaism was only one of several Mediterranean sources that was melded into Catholic Christianity. Among the most important are those coming from the Greeks Plato and Socrates. One can even argue that Judaism is Judaism because it drank from the well of Plato. Hence the water that nourishes the roots of the Judaic tree are from a European source. Further the religion of Egypt from which Judaism originated was equally important to Christianity as the Egyptian goddess Isis essentially became the Virgin Mary and hence Christ a version of the god Osiris. About the year 1000 Isis triumphed in purely Catholic regions becoming the immaculate virgin Mary thus actually displacing Christ as the principal religious archetype of Catholicism.
Manichaeism, the religion of the Persian Mani also takes a central role in Catholicism as well as the Persian god Mithras. In many ways then from the frontal view Judaism serves a subordinate but nevertheless important role in the development of what is essentially a Mediterranean not specifically Jewish religion. Judaism itself is a hodge podge of Mediterranean influences beginning with their religious birth on the transition from the Taurean to the Arien Age. Proto-Judaism was a reactionary movement of the Aryan Astral religion. So, if one takes the relative stance above the object to view it yet another picture emerges, in which Judaism is beholden to ‘Christianity.’ It’s all relative to how you look at it, isn’t it? Or is there a certain answer as science says?
The Catholic Church tolerated Judaism because of the Mediterranean connection but controlled it as tightly as possible. In 1789 the Revolutionists emancipated the Jews or in other words freed them from the discipline of the Catholic Church.
Aryan Europeans had been freeing themselves from the Catholic discipline for hundreds of years. With the triumph of the Enlightenment embodied in the French Revolution rationalism as evidenced by the scientific mind rejected the religious solutions of society, Catholic or Jewish, completely.
The light of reason completely dispelled the fogs of religion leaving the religions with no means of counter attacking, science was non-fiction, religion was fiction, or, seemingly so. Even during the savage horrors of the Revolution the scientific mind continued to evolve. The scientific ethos was in place as the Napoleonic era ended replaced by the productive Bourgeois ethos.
Along with Catholicism and Judaism the Scientific Revolution destroyed the possibility of continuing Aryan European beliefs such as the sprites and fairies. That religion died too, but their memory lived on in the Romantic Movement. Those religious beliefs had existed alongside Catholicism and Judaism. Their demise is beautifully expressed in Charles Nodier’s tale of Trilby and Jeannie. In the neo-Romantic revival that arose along with the Jewish concept of Relativism a hundred years later the English novelist, George Du Maurier revived Nodier’s legend in his book appropriately titled Trilby but in a nineteenth century European-Judaic context.
Barbara Spectre
So, as the Napoleonic Era ended Christianity, Judaism, Science and Romanticism contended for pre-eminence.
Catholicism and Romanticism which were Aryan experiences could only be eventually subsumed into Aryan, or what Jews call European, science but Judaism was a different story. The Jewish people at that time lived in Western and Eastern Europe as well as the Middle East and North Africa. The Americas were only beginning to emerge as new lands for settlement at that time.
The East, the Pale Of Settlement, was an impermeable block to science. It is doubtful that Eastern Jews even heard of science until the late nineteenth century when Western Jews attempted to modernize their Jewish brethren of the Pale.
In the West Jews were completely demoralized. Their relationship to the Church was no longer pertinent while science completely invalidated religious Judaism. It took the Jews a hundred years to come up with a counter to science and that counter would be the doctrine of relativism developed around the end of the nineteenth century amidst the Romantic revival.
Aryan romanticism had been replaced by the Positive scientific concept of August Comte who was the great systemitizer of the scientific method. While Comte, a Frenchman, has lost relevance in our times his was the basis on which scientific research developed. His work was specifically attacked by the Jewish relativists.
Following Comte in the intellectual evolution of science was an Englishman by the name of Herbert Spencer also now superseded and forgotten. Of course, Darwin, who is given credit for the concept of Evolution and has been the great bug-a-boo of the Creationists.
In fact during the nineteenth century the Aryan or European mind as evidenced by science had if not evolved far ahead, moved far ahead of all other cultures, most especially religious cultures such as Catholicism and Judaism. The essence of science is Evolution; the essence of Judaism is Creation. Thus when presented with the incontestable evidence of Evolution all three Semitic religions based on the concept of Creation found their common enemy in science and collaterally Europeans or Aryans. Science is the true enemy of Catholicism, Judaism and Moslemism. The Moslems were outside European culture hence as immune to scientific inroads as the Jews of the Pale. Christianity being European and disavowed could only stultify with its rationale gone. The Jews after a hundred year struggle came up with the notion of relativism as a riposte.
The matter of Steven Gimbel’s Einstein’s Jewish Science is the conflict between Evolution and Creationism, Positivism and Relativity. Einstein’s so called science then is merely Jewish relativism applied to physics. His so-called science must be Jewish.
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How Johns Hopkins, in my youth the foremost American scientific college, could even consider publishing Steve’s rant is too incredible for belief. The acceptance merely indicates how successful Jewish relativism has been against science and the scientific method.
The cover of the book itself, a very nice design, gives away the conclusion of the book. What appears to be our solar system depicts an absolute immovable sun in the form of a Star Of David thus showing Judaism as the immovable center around which all else revolves.
The nine planets, Pluto is included as a planet, orbit the Jewish sun in crazy off center orbits that overlap and collide. Thus the game is given away without the necessity of reading the book.
The question Steve asks is whether there is such a thing as Jewish science as the Nazis asserted. If there is a Jewish science then there must be a data base of Jewish knowledge. While Steve may not be aware of it, although it would be an unaccountable omission, Barbara Spectre began an organization based in and funded by Sweden called Paideia. Paidea is an Aryan Greek name for education. So the European foundations of Judaism are betrayed. So this very Jewish woman gave her organization an Aryan name. Strange, but not unusual.
The purpose of her organization is to negate what she calls nineteenth century European knowledge and in the future replace it with its counterpart, Jewish knowledge. Thus in the future Europeans won’t have the exclusive claims to knowledge that had so humiliated the Jews in the nineteenth century, that claim will have to be shared, at least, with Jewish knowledge. It is all relative of course but her organization currently in its second decade propagates the notion that there is a specific Jewish knowledge although she is cagy enough to conceal whatever passes for Jewish knowledge so that it can’t be tested and evaluated in a scientific manner..
It would seem then that the Nazis were not too far off base when they call relativism Jewish science. So that issue is probably more obfuscated than even Steve thinks.
In fact Steve begins his book with the usual Talmudic, one suspects this is what Babs Spectre calls Jewish knowledge, obfuscations. Steve asks a question that should have a simple answer, that is, do we really know who is a Jew and who isn’t? He will hammer away at this non-issue all through his book. Einstein himself self-identified as a Jew. But this is not enough for Steve. Just because Einstein knew he was a Jew doesn’t mean he was.
Steve goes on to quote Einstein, p. 4:
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Jews are a group of people unto themselves. You can see their Jewishness in their appearance and notice their Jewish heritage in their intellectual work and perceive a profound connection between their nature and the numerous interpretations they give to what they think and feel in the same way.
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Hey, the greatest mind, the greatest intellect in all of Jewish and human history has spoken. You can see Jewish identity in their intellectual work. How wrong could the Nazis have been? One would think that the question was settled and the book finished by page 4.
Steve clearly does not understand the nature of relativity.
I quote Steve, same page 4, as he picks up his narrative:
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Perhaps stranger still is that the author of this argument that Jewish qualities might be inherent and recognizable in the intellectual work of Jews is none other than Albert Einstein himself. Einstein’s own words suggest that we must take seriously the possibility that the Nazis were in some sense correct about his theory. Maybe relativity is “Jewish Science” after all.
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No, relativity isn’t science. It can’t be. Steve’s sub-title is: Physics at the intersection of Politics and Religion. So we’re not really talking science we’re talking politics and religion, more especially religion. Well, Steve’s got 241 pages to go so he’s got some hash slinging to do and he is capable of slinging that hash.
The essence of Judaism is creation not evolution. Something that is created is whole and entire at creation, no evolution is necessary. There is no evolving to do, thus Steve’s Jewish mind can only deal in Creative relativism but no evolution.
Einstein’s field of expertise was physics thus he is pitted against what was formerly thought of as the greatest intellect in the world, that of Isaac Newton. Therefore in order to top Newton Einstein had to be billed as the most incredible cherry sitting on top of the sundae possible. The most astonishing mind the world not only has seen but will ever see.
Now, Einstein lived some two hundred years or so after Newton. The latter worked in the earliest stage of scientific knowledge with little to go on and the determined hostility of the semi-Semitic Catholic Church. Much of science and physics originated with Newton but scientific learning evolved rapidly after him, and because of Newton. Einstein’s late nineteenth century youth coincided with the fabulous scientific evolution of the nineteenth century. Einstein was not the rival of Newton that Steve presents but a successor beginning somewhen after Newton left off.
Thus Steve, in the Jewish way of the juggler’s legerdemain compares apples to oranges, but then, it is relative, isn’t it? If Steve wants us to believe with the Nazis that Einstein’s was Jewish science then Newton’s must have been Catholic Christian science, Steve says his science was no different than Einstein’s except Catholic rather than Jewish but still religiously based. No, but actually Einstein stood to Jewish religion in his time as Newton had stood to Catholicism in his. The difference is that Newton was instrumental in freeing science from religion, he was shedding religion. Einstein was adapting religion to science so that Jewish Knowledge, that is a return to religious thinking, could reign supreme. Thus Newton’s science was evolutionary while Eintein’s relativity was regressive to atavistic Jewish religion. Einstein was attempting to negate evolution and science.
This idea is very clear in Steve’s book.
Like Barbara Spectre Steve believes that nineteenth century science marginalized the Jewish people, in other words made their BS irrelevant. And…this is true. Hence Jewish development across all fields of inquiry was that of relativity; relativity was a sort of Jewish version of Aryan neo-Romanticism. The notion was not an invention of Einstein but was part of the assault made on nineteenth century scholarship across the board. Einstein covered physics, Freud-Fliess took control of psychology, Henri Bergson presented a Creationist version of evolution while denouncing Spencer and Comte, Schoenberg brought relativism to music, Anatole France attacked literature, Franz Boas tackled Anthropology. In every possible discipline Jews countered the prevailing European scholarship with relativism while slandering the European leaders in the field.
Dada appeared in 1917 disparaging Western art with a general condemnation of European civilization. Following shortly after Critical Theory was originated as the Frankfurt School that developed methods to undermine every phase of Western Civilization. Relativism was the mode of attack. The notion was not an invention of Einstein, he merely applied it to physics. Hence Steve’s dogged comparison of him as a superior to Newton. But that’s all relative. If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull-shit. If you can’t even tell who the hell is a Jew how can you possible tell if he is a scientist? How can you tell anything? You can’t, it’s all relative. And that is the point of the Jewish Knowledge of the Talmud. The only thing you can know for sure is that Jews are the center of the solar system, Jews are always right as the cover of the book indicates and everyone else is eccentric.
So, the nineteenth century marginalized the Jews. They couldn’t compete. In fact they weren’t the center of the solar system. Galileo, Copernicus and Kepler got there before them. The consequence of the humiliation was that the Jews identified with every other group they considered marginalized by the bad old bogy White man or European. They aligned themselves with the others to defeat Europeans and European knowledge. Thus will she nil she Barbara Spectre and her Paideia organization is the keystone of the argument.
Steven chops his hash over the couple hundred pages remaining without getting anywhere. We are left uncertain as to whether not only was Einstein’s science Jewish but whether Einstein was actually Jewish. One would think that if Einstein couldn’t positively be proven to be Jewish the science would be a moot point. Of course it is always possible that one could be European and practice Jewish science as clearly stated by Barbara.
If Steve’s main text was lackluster his conclusion was a rip roaring finale. Perhaps inspired by Bob Dylan’s line from Chimes of Freedom that goes: the confused, abused, misused, strung out ones and worse (or marginalized) the very passionate Steve unlooses this tirade: p.210,
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But for those who saw the change (from Aryan to Jewish science) as a part of human progress, of cultural growth, he was part of the engine driving us (he means Jews by us) forward. His science was revolutionary, but it wasn’t just his science. Einstein the man, as much as the theory of relativity, became the symbol of the new way. He eschewed belts and socks. His hair, that iconic hair, stoked a sense of nonconformist to that which is merely social construction. Here was a great mind that rejected the trivial. Think of the quotations that one sees attributed to Einstein on bumper stickers: “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” “Great thinkers have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” What one celebrates abut Einstein is his embrace of a certain form of Enlightenment values: that humanity progresses when it thinks creatively, (read: religiously) when it stops accepting culturally enforced strictures and frees itself in the search for truth. We (whoever We may be) take Einstein to be the epitome of the open mind.
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Well, gosharoonies, was that ever a masterpiece of overblown purple prose, a wonder of kitsch, a parody of heartfelt emotion. Indeed!!! Indeed!!!
‘His science was revolutionary, but it wasn’t just his science.’ Was his science revolutionary? Whatever he may have found of value was just science, a part of mankind’s treasure, a contribution along with all other contributions. Nothing he thought belonged to him; Einstein was just another laborer in the vineyard. European scientific discoveries were not proprietary. Research was conducted openly, open source as they say on the internet, published in a myriad of scientific journals so all qualified could participate. Nor was Einstein a new growth; he was merely standing on the shoulders of the giants who came before. He was not a competitor of Newton he was a successor employing all the discovered, not created, knowledge of the past. Einstein would never have existed except for Newton. Unfortunately Newton didn’t have to courtesy to have been Jewish, but even if he had according to Steve how could it have been known that he was really Jewish.
As proof of Einstein’s genius Steve gives us this: He eschewed belts and socks. Bravo! Clap, clap, my god what a man.
‘His hair…that hair…. What more do you need to be a genius? Look at Bob Dylan’s hair. Weird hair? Of course he’s a genius. Look at my hair, by the way. Newton didn’t have weird hair, how couldn’t Einstein be a greater genius?
‘Imagination is more important than knowledge.’ Why, of course, why hadn’t that occurred to me before. Why study physics when you can just imagine physics and it’s true. ‘Knowledge? We don’t need no steenking knowledge.’
‘We take Einstein to be the epitome of the open mind.’ Who is this ‘we’? Who is this ‘us’? Is Steve speaking for Europeans as well as Jews? Or are the we and us exclusively Jews. As Bob Dylan says: Watch those pronouns. And then the piece de resistance… p. 212
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But this love of Einstein is broader than that of the Jewish community, because the liberated cosmopolitan future he represents is not at all tied to a connection between Judaism and relativity. (Is that statement positive or relative?) Einstein was a secular Jew, but he very well could have been a religious Jew like Nobel laureate I.B Singer: He could just as well have been a Hindu like Nobel laureate Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman; he could have been an Arab (Moslem) like Nobel laureate Ahmad Zewail, he could have been a woman like Nobel laureate Marie Curie; he might have been a gay like mathematical genius Alan Turing. Einstein is Einstein because he says to every oppressed group that he could have been like you. His theory, his irreverence, his politics, and the opposition he found represent an opening up and destruction of the confining structures that limited whose voice could be heard, in what language it could be spoken, and with what accent. His place in history was pivotal moment at which the future no longer resembled the past. That future will no longer be dominated by the powers that entrenched themselves (Aryan males) over the past several centuries and Albert Einstein is a symbol that all of us can participate in the future.
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Myopia is a new religion? Heil Babs Specter! What a presentation of inner wishful thinking and misconstrued reality. What was wrong with the editors at Johns Hopkins? What a misconstruction of the nature of science. Contrary to Babs Spectre and Steve Gimbel there was no one preventing scientific contributions from wherever or whomever. It was impossible for anyone not of the European culture from 1650 to 1900 to make contributions because they had neither the knowledge or scientific imaginations to make scientific contributions. The world has now evolved. Steve and Babs are right this is not the nineteenth century. The rest of the world in varying degrees have caught up with the idea of science given by the Aryan. They have evolved. They are no longer who they were in the nineteenth century. Look at the pictures. If they contribute now it is not because Aryans allow them to it is because they now can because they can absorb the knowledge, but the majority still can’t.
Relativity itself is not scientific but a religious distortion of science as Steve acknowledges in his sub-title.
It is interesting that no European male is included in Steve’s list of the oppressed that Einstein supposedly made equal although at least half of European males were marginalized and forbidden to participate because of class reasons. Russian serfs even if theoretically freed were more oppressed than the Jews. Jews flooded Russian and European universities while Russian serfs and European commoners had to fight to gain entrance. In all ways Jews had it easier and were treated better than the lower classes of Europeans after emancipation. Steve is not looking at things in an objective enough manner. He is blinded by his subjectivism.
Steve had better stick to philosophy because he is certainly no historian or scientific researcher. As to his book, as a ‘visiting professor’ I can give Steve only a courtesy C for effort. Subjectivity, inner wishful thinking, creativity are fine for religion but have no place in the cold hard positive reality of science.
Edgar Rice Burroughs And The Accreted Personality
by
R.E. Prindle
Chapter 8
After The Revolution
Eddie’s story in the twenties has proven difficult to write. There was so much happening in his life that I have finally decided to make the twenties into three sections and two chapters- political and personal.
While I have covered most of the ground in other essays I will try to make this as comprehensive as possible. The political atmosphere post-Bolshevik Revolution has seldom if ever been interpreted by Ed’s biographers. In point of fact politics were forced on him will he nil he. I’m sure he didn’t know what had happened.
His political troubles derived from two sources of about equal importance. The first was the Bolshevik threat from Communism and the second was the Jewish confrontation forced on him. It is regrettable to have to bring in the Jews which often has unpleasant consequences but biography and history become impossible if one is required to blot out half of the material as unmentionable; thus I hope I will be forgiven if I record the whole story with all its blemishes. I will treat of the Reds first and the Jews second.
The quest of Joseph Stalin and the Soviets to control the literature of the West that the discussion of political and social affairs in any other than a pro-Communist context might be prevented seems to have been ignored by all historians. In fact Stalin did his best to control what was published while discrediting established writers unsympathetic to the Revolution. On the one hand the Reds either created the P.E.N organization or acted through John Galsworthy the author of the Forsyth Saga or took it over shortly thereafter.
P.E.N. is an acronym for Poets, Essayists, Novelists. The organization still exists and its current slogan is ‘Promoting Literature, Defending Freedom Of Expression.
In its history on the internet it states: PEN was one of the world’s first non-governmental organizations and amongst the first international bodies advocating for human rights.
That’s pretty much double speak for Communist writers first and foremost and their version of human rights. Human rights meant from a pro-Communist point of view. Today there is a PEN in nearly every country of the world controlling discussion.
But back then by 1930 the President of the organization was the Communist stooge H.G. Wells. He was a very active hatchet man who did his best to discipline non Communist writers.
H.G. Wells is one of the great names in world literature. His career began with a bang as his early fantasy sci-fi novels and short stories of the 1890s are among the great classics still avidly read and filmed today especially The War Of The Worlds and The Island Of Dr. Moreau.
He became a little too doctrinaire as the twentieth century’s first decade ended and then became preachy. While he remained prolific to his death in 1946 his output is pretty much an acquired taste today. For myself while his novels are often annoying they are redeemed by his talent and quite profound sagacity.
Stalin found him a little too independent, indeed, troublesome. Their philosophies parted and by Wells’ late thirties’ novel The Holy Terror he was advocating Stalin’s assassination. Naturally there was a woman involved.
His reasons were personal concerning Stalin’s treatment of him in relation to the State prostitute, Moura Budberg, assigned to him as a minder.
There were a number of State prostitutes assigned to Western writers to guard their orthodoxy. Stalin was serious. Strangely he was if not a fan of Edgar Rice Burroughs, he was a great admirer of his creation Tarzan. I don’t know that he read the books but he had the movies flown in to him, most likely the MGMs of the thirties and later Sol Lessor’s Tarzans of the forties.
It seems clear that Ed knew he was being targeted by both Wells and Stalin. I have detailed the literary feud between Wells and Burroughs in other essays but by the end of the decade and the publication of Tarzan The Invincible the battle lines were clearly drawn.
In many ways even though the denouement was certainly painful for Ed, the struggle provided him with the story lines for his truly great series of Tarzans from 1930 to 1935 that recorded the progress of the struggle.
Ed had always been anti-Socialist. He deplored the Hay Market rioters of May 4, 1886 while his father was actually invited to the hanging of the ‘Commie Martyrs.’ Young Ed clenched his fists in rage as the Reds marched Chicago’s streets beneath their red flags.
One can imagine how he sat up in alarm when the news of the Bolshevik Revolution reached his ears. Nor was the Bolshevik Revolution confined to Russia. As the Great War ended in Germany’s defeat opening its eastern borders Soviet cadres flowed West into Central and Western Europe where with more or less success they attempted to foment revolution. At the very least the Communists established themselves in Western capitols to influence politics in the various nations including the US.
While historians refuse to acknowledge it there was a Communist revolution attempted in the US from 1918 to 1921. The Communist assault in the US that includes the bombing of Wall Street and dozens of assassination attempts was foiled initially by the Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and subsequently forced well underground by the much maligned but surely great Warren G. Harding shortly after assuming office in 1921.
Thus the Republican Interregnum of 1921-33 frustrated the revolution forcing it into other channels such as stock market manipulations and the movies.
The revolutionary period coincided with the great turmoil in Ed’s life as he shifted his base of operations from Chicago to Los Angeles. Still he found time to write an anti-Communist tract called Under The Red Flag that not surprisingly was universally rejected. However if he had been under the Communist radar screen before the tract made him a marked man. The Communists put him on their list of reactionaries to be destroyed. Thus, as the twenties began Ed was under assault.
Ed seems to have been always well informed. His anti-Stalin Tarzan The Invincible displays a very profound understanding of the Communist situation with a positive awareness that he was on Stalin’s hit list. As incredible as that may seem it is true. Stalin’s literary agent, H.G. Wells fought a running literary battle with Ed all through the twenties and thirties in conjunction with other elements that ended with Ed’s exile from the movie capitol as the forties began.
As mentioned, Wells’ career had fallen on hard times before the War began as he pursued his social and sexual agenda. He was loved for his earlier work but his later efforts, what were essentially tracts, failed to find a mass audience. He wrote all through the War. These volumes while not popular still have a great deal of merit although running counter to my own understanding of things. His The Soul Of A Bishop is a quite penetrating examination of the subject.
Nevertheless the War destroyed all Wells’ prognostications for the progress of mankind so that he was a broken man intellectually by War’s end. The horrors of that war, the destruction of a whole male generation is indescribable. No use to attempt it. With a broken mind Wells sought refuge in a return to God that was futile. But, as a man must believe in something H.G. gave himself body and soul to the Revolution. He became a part of the Soviet sphere. While he tried to operate independently as a free man and an equal of Lenin and Stalin, that was impossible. Thus, as he always maintained his façade of independence he was subordinated to Stalin, watched over by his consort, Moura Budberg.
Always a sort of literary maverick his style changed somewhat in the twenties where as the literary hit man he began to satirize and defame the so-called reactionary politicians and writers of the day.
As a slight digression, while Wells was despairing his loss of faith he undertook to write the most successful book of his career, the fantastically best selling Outline Of History. This socialist view of history not only sold well off the bat but continued to do so at least into the fifties. The book established his financial independence putting him beyond the control of Stalin while establishing him as one of the great savants of the world along with Bertrand Russell and George Bernard Shaw both now eclipsed reputations. Wells wrote two further compendiums The Science Of Life and The Work, Wealth and Happiness Of Mankind. These enhanced his reputation but are now disregarded although an historically valuable depiction of the knowledge of the thirties. So, Ed was up against Stalin’s heavy hitter and faced him down.
As corroboration of Stalin’s interference and control of Western writers an excellent little book by Nina Berberova titled: Moura: The Dangerous Life Of The Baroness Budberg was published in 1988 translated into English in 2005. Berberova says: p. 241
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In the 30s there existed in Parisian literary circles a strange distrust of certain women of Russian origin who had married French celebrities…from the world of letters, music or theatre. It mattered little whether they were the legitimate wives of Romain Rolland, Louis Aragon, Paul Eluard, Fernand Leger, or their mistresses. One always had the feeling on making their acquaintance that they had probably been sent by Moscow to attach themselves to these celebrities, with the principal mission of keeping these men of genius under Stalin’s influence and from preventing them from expressing critical opinions about him or changing their political positions. Like Moura with Wells there was Elsa Triolet, the wives of Eluard and Leger and many others, including Princess Maria Pavlovna Kudasheva. These were energetic, intelligent women who had chose this dangerous profession fully aware of the possible consequences. Some of them used to go to Moscow and would also entertain Soviet diplomats who happened to be in Paris and were charmed….This is not the place to paint their portraits, but a few words must be said about Maria Kudeshova, who managed to get Rolland to marry her when he was sixty-eight years old (she was a little over thirty) after having gotten rid of his sister who had been living in his house in Switzerland. She surrounded Rolland with her Soviet friends and finally convinced him to take a trip to Moscow. According to Georges Duhamel there was no doubt that she was working for Moscow. Kudasheva admitted to Duhamel’s sons that she had been manipulated by the NKVD….She quickly installed herself in Rolland’s house and threatened suicide several times in order to make him marry her.
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And then on pp. 255-56
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When Galsworthy died in 1933 Wells had become president of the international PEN club, and…Moura…was receiving guests as the lady of the house….From the early 1930s to the early 1950s Moura played a really important role within the international PEN club, successfully barring Russian émigré writers from membership. She was supported by left-wing intellectuals in England and Europe, and also by English publishers…
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One can imagine then to what lengths the Soviets went to control what was published and what wasn’t. After the Revolution when the various Socialists, Reds and Parlor Pinks operated more openly it was quite clear that they were in control of publishing and culture in general.
Ed had always had problems with the critics; he was not a respected writer. However he was a very successful and influential writer. Before the War he had been more or less an imitation of the successful writers of the earlier generation such as Wells, Haggard and Kipling. But with the development of the genres and genre writing of which he was he most successful exemplar all the young would be genre writers turned to him as their role model. In addition under the leadership of publisher Bernarr Macfadden the pulps evolved from general fiction magazines into genre fiction magazines. Macfadden’s True Romance titles were spectacularly successful although as one might expect reviled. Nevertheless there they were in their millions of copies sold and sitting on top of the literary heap of pulp writers was Edgar Rice Burroughs. He was to be a major influence on all pulp writing of the twenties and thirties.
By that time the damage had been done and it was very difficult to destroy his career although this was successfully done through the agency of his secretary, Ralph Rothmund, by the end of WWII until the sixties revival, which was accidental, when publishers discovered that the titles whose copyrights Rothmund had let lapse were in the public domain. Grosset and Dunlap post-WWII who knew the copyrights were lapsed had been under no obligation to pay Burroughs royalties but did so out of courtesy.
The literary world had always found Ed unpalatable. He secured his publisher, McClurg’s nearly by default, who mistreated him and in one way or another cheated him of substantial amounts of royalties thus preventing the prosperity and power due his success.
His editors despised him as a writer denigrating him whenever they could. His last editor at Munsey, Bob Davis, constantly belittled Ed’s efforts. I have not yet obtained Davis’ autobiography but as the twenties dawned Davis quit his job at Munsey to try his hand at authorship. His true idol was O. Henry who he tried to imitate in two volumes of short stories, sketches and reminiscences that I have obtained and read. He was a relatively dull and trite writer, certainly no Edgar Rice Burroughs.
But Ed’s publishing troubles were just beginning. Stalin’s agents riddled the publishing business. McClurg’s and Grossett and Dunlap had been working against his interests from the beginning. The movies had circumvented the publishers swelling his income as he made his move to Los Angeles to a peak of a hundred thousand dollars. Unfortunately Hollywood was in the hands of his political enemies. That and Ed’s misunderstanding that the rules of the game had changed and the rules of the America he had grown up in no longer applied. There were topics that could only be discussed in a positive Communist manner while any other discussion was sure of instant rejection; in order to succeed you knew which road to take.
Ed’s anti-Communist tract was a definite false step in the new intellectual environment. Two major faux pas that cost him his credibility in Hollywood were his titles, The Girl From Hollywood and Marcia Of The Doorstep. The first attacked the immorality of Hollywood while the second had characters offensive to Jewish sensibilities.
Ed complained that there was an effort to suppress Girl even though sales were good while publication of Marcia was completely denied him.
Between the Communists and the Jews then movies starring Tarzan were suppressed from 1922 to 1927 thus denying Ed that important source of revenues.
On the international level his English publisher Methuen’s refused to efficiently distribute his books thus drying up English revenues. In Germany a brouhaha was created regarding attitudes toward wartime Germany found in Ed titles of that period. As the wartime propaganda on both sides was brutal I find it difficult to believe there was a grass roots objection to any wartime hysteria.
As Stalin was virtually micro managing literary concerns in Europe and America it seems more likely that the great noise was fomented by Communist interests that resulted in the withdrawal of his books along with his royalties from the German market. This also was a serious blow to Ed’s finances. His expenses were then exceeding his income forcing the serious retrenchment he depicts in 1924’s Marcia Of The Doorstep.
Curiously while his sales dropped in his major European markets they sky rocketed in the Soviet Union itself. Of course Ed derived no royalties from Soviet sales. Perhaps Stalin was having his little joke; the retort to which came in Tarzan The Invincible.
Ed’s American publishing woes continued to increase until he found it necessary to dump McClurg’s. Even though the Tarzan books were major sellers, with the Mars series less so but good, and while the onus against pulp writing had all but disappeared with major publishers releasing titles written in the pulp or popular style Ed was refused by every major publisher just as he had been in 1914.
Forced into dealing with questionable publishers he threw that in and in 1930 with his Tarzan The Invincible Ed self-published under his own imprint.
So, by the end of the decade the Communists while not yet destroying his career had interrupted his concentration while putting him into a defensive position outside normal publishing methods. In that sense Ed had his back against the wall fighting for survival. Next let’s examine his position vis-à-vis the Jews.
2.
Hollywood Boondoggle
This section concerning Ed’s relations with the Jews will be more difficult as the activities of the Jews run counter to the average citizens prejudices concerning them. Contrary to what all histories tell us the Jews were active participants in all revolutionary movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries while acting in their own interests at all times.
Even if this was misperceived, which it wasn’t, they were still widely perceived and, indeed, at the close of the war accused of having been responsible for the war by many very well informed people. If Ed didn’t see the situation that way he had his suspicions.
Now, when Ed left Chicago he left ahead of a letter that was forwarded to him in LA from theAmerican Jewish Committee. This letter was to have a profound effect on the Hollywood phase of his career from 1920 to 1940. They were to be twenty years of constant harassment.
In order to establish the context of this letter, questionnaire actually, let me summarize the Jewish situation vis-à-vis Europe and America as part of the 1789-2001 Revolutionary period.
As the French Revolution began the Jews everywhere in Europe were under civil disabilities. The Revolution emancipated them making them equal in citizenship with all Europeans. Of course the process was effected more rapidly in some areas than others.
At the same time the Scientific Revolution freeing the mind from religious superstitions was well under way. Science as we all know invalidates and supersedes all religious thought. This left Christianity and Judaism holding the bag with silly grins on their faces. In was necessary for them to adjust to Scientific realities in one way or another or go over to Science abandoning religion. Setting Protestantism and Catholicism aside the Western Jews, England, France and Germany, were devastated while the Eastern Jews of the Pale of Settlement were unaffected until the twentieth century when they arrived in the US. The Jewish belief system had been invalidated, so much sentimental trash.
They were unable to find a place for themselves in this new environment until a hundred years or so after the Revolution the Jews originated the argument of relativism in the attempt to defeat science and regain their status. While Science was positive that is an attempt to realize the true nature of reality and its results absolute, the Jews attempted to destroy that positiveness by introducing relativity, that is inner wishful thinking. Thus in 1900 a whole group of Jewish savants in various disciplines introduced relativity. Freud/Fliess in Psychology, Karl Marx in politics, Einstein in physics, Schoenberg in music, Franz Boas in anthropology, Anatole France in literature, Henri Bergson in evolution, across the whole field of learning. Einstein’s Theory of Relativity challenged the positiveness of Science making positive results questionable both scientifically and socially.
Politically great organizations were created to advance Jewish interests, The American Jewish Committee, The Fraternal Order of B’nai B’rith’s Anti-Defamation League. While influencing American politics heavily up to the election of Woodrow Wilson in 1913, under Wilson’s socialist presidency Jews actually entered government administration in large numbers. They were especially active during the War years. Their influence would diminish in 1921 when Warren G. Harding took office.
But as the War ended before Wilson’s socialist policies could be effected their influence was diminishing but still in 1918 the Jews devised something they called the Jewish Bill Of Rights that they wished to attach to the Constitution. That was the communication forwarded to Ed in LA in 1919.
The survey was sent to every prominent man and woman in the United States to determine their degree of ’anti-Semitism.’ If you returned the questionnaire promptly and in full accord you were considered safe, if not you were placed on the rolls as an anti-Semite. Ed did have some questions that, while he probably didn’t realize it having been reared as a free American boy with rights of free speech guaranteed by the US Bill Of Rights, marked him as an anti-Semite for being in violation of the Jewish Bill Of Rights. Already targeted by the Bolsheviks he now found himself on, or perhaps didn’t realize he was on, the list of dangerous anti-Semites marked for destruction. And he was destroyed. Generally speaking, I am unaware of any exceptions, all these people so indicated were destroyed by 1940.
Some were very powerful men such as that greatest of Americans Henry Ford. Add Warren G. Harding, William Randolph Hearst and many others with whom Ed found himself in the same boat.
Henry Ford, of course, engaged the Jews in a full fledged war. He established the first national newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, to carry the battle to them. For several years his paper published articles exposing Jewish machinations including three or four concerning his copy of The Jewish Bill Of Rights.
As the Revolution spread to US shores in 1919, 1920 and 1921 it seemed possible to the Revolutionaries that they would overthrow the US government. If Wilson had not had his stroke and been able to run for the third term he wanted, instead of Warren G. Harding’s election, they may very well have succeeded. Say, Wilson had done what his protégé FDR did do, that is serve four terms it is certain that the country would have turned Communist. Instead Harding assumed the presidency and very energetically put a stop to Communist and Jewish shenanigans. He would pay with his life two years later but he did save the Republic for twelve years.
Ed makes reference to a ship he calls the Harding in The Moon Men that must undoubtedly refer to the President. Tarzan And The Ant Men is full of political references to the Harding administration so Ed was fully aware of what was happening. Although the publication of Ed’s 1924 novel Marcia Of The Doorstep was blocked, Ed goes to the assistance of Henry Ford basing his character Marcus Sackett, that is himself, on four articles concerning Jews in show business that appeared in Ford’s Independent. Ford’s articles were later collected in a four volume set given the unfortunate title of The International Jew. By that he didn’t mean to include all Jews only those Jews affiliated to the international Jewish government.
In his Marcia novel Ed’s unsavory villain was a wily little Jew and his portrayal of Hollywood was accurately if inadvisably a portrait of the Jews who ran the movie capitol. Ed balanced the picture with wise upright Jews, one probably based on Louis Brandeis, and generous Jews but that misses the point. While the novel was never published it was apparently read by the studio heads or whoever landing Ed in hot water. Thus in his Moon Maid he depicts a lovable, highly respected and honored Jew both by Jew and Gentile but once again, that misses the point and makes up for nothing in Jewish eyes.
But, you know, once you’ve crossed the line you can’t get back over. Rather than improving his situation versus the Jews the Moon Maid probably worsened it as he had, in effect, apologized and confessed his guilt just as Henry Ford would do in 1927.
The twenties were a time of transition from the pre-war period of small holdings to consolidation in much larger units. This was no more apparent than in agriculture where the great corporate farms were taking shape along with food processors of comparable size that would form as such giant corporations as Archer-Daniels-Midlands. So Ford was right but he lost the suit. Actually there was no difference between these huge corporate farms and the collectivized farms of the USSR. It was just done differently.
Ford who initiated perhaps the greatest industrial change or forward movement the world has ever known in the assembly line and then went on to create the first worldwide company was nevertheless conservative otherwise, almost atavistic. He had hated farm work as a youth so even as he lined up a long row of Ford tractors that plowed the whole field in a matter of minutes, almost seconds, that made large farms possible he objected to the consolidation of small farms. He pointed to a Jewish firm involved in the consolidation which, of course, the Jews denied. In the ensuing law suit Ford lost and even allowed the Jews to write his apology that he signed.
The law suit came at a time when Ford through neglect in adapting to the evolution of the auto industry and economic pressure from the Jews closed down his entire operation for over a year as he met innovation with the innovation of the V8. Ed’s son was one of the first to buy one, even though Ed had always detested that poor man’s car, in support of Henry. But Ford had lost his sales lead slipping into second place behind Chevy where he stayed at least through the fifties. The entire auto industry was consolidated into the Big Three- G.M., Ford and late arriver Chrysler with a few small survivors.
The same process affected the movie industry which affected Ed’s fortunes greatly when sound was introduced in 1927-28. The expense new constantly changing equipment and technological expertise or evolution of the industry was too much for the smaller firms to bear. The consolidation had been going on before as William Fox, previously the most successful of the movie producers, was driven into bankruptcy by the New York money Jews. Fox’s firm, he himself was Jewish but resisted the consolidation, was joined to Twentieth Century to form Twentieth Century-Fox.
The most successful consolidation that would determine Ed’s fortunes was the Loewe Corporation’s Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. These three studios as MGM were under the hegemony of Loewe’s in New York City. Loewe is German or Yiddish for lion so the MGM logo with the words Metro Goldwyn Mayer under the roaring lion represents them as the operating companies of Loewes. From 1930 to the fifties MGM was the gold standard of the industry. As children we all cheered at the Saturday movies when the lion roared because then we were guaranteed a good movie. For the rest of the logos you could never be sure.
So the Jewish machinations against Ed essentially climaxed when Ed surrendered control of his magnificent creation in 1931 as he signed his contract with Loewes, MGM and Louis B. Mayer.
There is one other major issue of the twenties to be considered as it did affect Ed although indirectly. The issue is the stock market crash of 1929. The important point here is that the Wilson administration was socialist. If the Democrats, that if the Wilsonians Cox and FDR, had won in 1920 the Wilsonian socialist program would have moved forward. Instead the Republican Warren G. Harding was elected and in his return to ‘normalcy’ he squashed the whole Wilsonian program none of which had had a chance to take effect. Harding simply suppressed the Revolution.
The Democrats then looking ahead could see no chance of regaining power save through some national disaster through which Republicans could be portrayed as inept. With the prosperity of the New Era there would be little chance for election for who knew, maybe fifty years or more. A national disaster, then, had to be created but one which the Democrats thought they could turn around in a snap.
The economist John Maynard Keynes was touting monetary stimulus as the panacea of all economic downturns. It was true that such a program had never been tried but it sounded logical and a sure fired remedy. It was only necessary to create an economic downturn such as 1873, 1893 or 1907 by, say, 1930.
The so-called stock market crash was no big thing in itself. We’ve had bigger since then without any adverse results. The stock market has always recovered and risen to new heights without a monetary stimulus.
The difference in 1929 was that margin requirements were very low at only 10%. That means that if you had a hundred dollars you could buy a thousand dollars worth of stock on margin or essentially on credit. If the stock rose you could sell and pocket the cash. If he stock dropped there would a margin call to bring your indebtedness back under 10%. If your stock doubled as stocks did at that time you could use 100.00 of the increase as collateral and buy more stock and so on but with each increase in value your margin call would be greater and as it did exceed your means. Then, of course, it all came crashing down as it did.
First a buying frenzy had to be created which was done. The momentum continued forward crazily until the plug was pulled which it was. Then stocks not only lost value but those who were betting the farm were foreclosed and tens of thousands of people became penniless. Thus one had the terrible situation of 1929.
Herbert Hoover the Republican president was then called on to solve the problem instantly. Hoover didn’t have the secret the Democrats thought they had so by the time the country was singing Happy Day Are Here Again FDR was in office. He reached into his Keynes top hat to pull out the Magic Formula and what to his surprise but that the marvelous Keynesian solution didn’t work. Well, no matter, he’d already been elected and that was miracle enough. Blame the Depression on the Republicans and get on with it. Thus Wilsonian socialism returned to Washington along with the Jews.
Back in 1928 Ed ever on the lookout for a fast buck business opportunity had invested in an airplane engine called The Apache and what he considered a sure thing, a San Fernando Valley airport. The Depression stopped both with Ed losing his entire investment. Oh well, he could still write so he formed his own publishing company and did. He turned out the best work of his career, but then, that’s for the chapter on the thirties.
In conclusion the twenties had been a political and economic disaster for Ed. He had been soundly trounced by the Judaeo-Communist forces. Worse was still to come.
I, Dynamo 