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The internet allows free and unfettered expressions of all kinds of views, from the mundane to the malicious. While much online content is informative and educational, other content is vilifying and inciteful.
Each year, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ), the peak national body representing Australia’s Jewish community, produces a Report on Antisemitism in Australia. A major section of this Report includes antisemitic discourse in a variety of settings – from the mainstream media through to extremist sites.
Eighty years have passed since James Burnham wrote the 20th century’s most important, insightful, and
ignored work of political science,
. Burnham, a former Trotskyite-turned-conservative political philosopher, argued that capitalism as a social organizing structure had been on its deathbed since the beginning of the First World War and would soon pass into insignificance. And, just as capitalism had struggled against and replaced feudalism, so too a new socio-economic principle what I like to think of as “managerism” was supplanting it.
Under this new socio-economic order,
managers, not capitalists, control the instruments of production, and acquire more real power in society every passing year. According to Burnham, the state, laws, and culture would gradually transform politics and society to favor managerial rule and managerist thinking: a world in which all economic, social, and foreign relations problems can be solved on the national level by expert dominance, plann
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Two women light candles among others and flowers next to the entrance of the synagogue in Munich, during a protest against anti-Semitism on October 11, 2019 two days after a deadly shooting outside a synagogue in Halle. (Photo by Christof STACHE / AFP)
VIENNA, Austria Austrian authorities said Tuesday they have arrested a rapper accused of broadcasting neo-Nazi songs, one of which was used by the man behind a deadly anti-Semitic attack in Germany.
“The suspect has been arrested on orders of the Vienna prosecutors” and taken to prison after a search of his home, said an interior ministry statement.
Police seized a mixing desk, hard discs, weapons, a military flag from the Third Reich era and other Nazi objects during their search.