Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said that Nazism was a left-wing movement after he visited the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. But the museum, which is a memorial of the Jewish victims of Nazism, says that Nazism was a right-wing movement. What about now?
There
was a big controversy about Nazism and socialism in the recent visit of the
Brazilian president to Israel, and I will let Israelis themselves speak what
they think. In a report titled “Brazil’s president says Nazis were leftists
following visit to Yad Vashem,” the Jerusalem Post, a prominent Israeli
newspaper, said,
President
Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil said that Nazism was a leftist movement following his
visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.
“There
is no doubt, right?” Bolsonaro replied, according to Reuters.
It
is widely accepted that Nazism was a far-right movement. Yad Vashem’s website
says that a range of factors, including Germany’s defeat in World War I,
“created fertile soil for the growth of radical right-wing groups in Germany,
spawning entities such as the Nazi Party.”
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency confirmed
that Bolsonaro’s visit to the Holocaust Museum was clouded by a controversial remark
of his “foreign minister, Ernesto Araújo, who claimed in a blog post that
Nazism was a left-wing movement. Yad Vashem’s website says Nazism was a
product of ‘radical right-wing groups in Germany.’”
Yad
Vashem documents the Holocaust and is a memorial to the 6
million Jews murdered by Nazi Germany during World War Two.
Despite Araújo’s remark directly
contradicting information on the museum’s website, Bolsonaro sided with him.
Yet, the Holocaust Museum is not the only
Jewish institution portraying Hitler as a right-winger. The Jewish Virtual
Library says:
…
Hitler would make one of his passionate speeches that encouraged his supporters
to carry out acts of violence against Jews and his left-wing political
opponents. As this violence was often directed against Socialists and
Communists, the local right-wing Bavarian government did not take action
against the Nazi Party.
Hitler
believed that the Jews were involved with Communists in a joint conspiracy to
take over the world. Like Henry Ford, Hitler claimed that 75% of all Communists
were Jews. Hitler argued that the combination of Jews and Marxists had already
been successful in Russia and now threatened the rest of Europe.
If the Jews, who understand about Nazism
as its direct victims, say that Nazism was right-wing, who are we to contradict
them? Yet, asked by reporters if he agreed with Araújo, Bolsonaro said, “There
is no doubt, right?”
He explained that the Nazi party’s name
was the National Socialist Party of Germany, which includes the word “socialist.”
The official name was the National Socialist German Workers’ Party.
Araújo’s notion, which is embraced by
Bolsonaro, is that “National Socialism” was a leftist movement because it
includes the word “socialism.” Political Scientist Kai Michael Kenkel said
this connection between Nazis and socialism is akin to saying that the East
German Democratic Republic and the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea were
indeed democracies.
The same controversy was present in Bolsonaro’s
campaign in 2018, when his followers said that Nazism was a left-wing ideology.
The German Embassy in Brazil intervened in the controversy. In an interview with
the newspaper “O Globo,” the German ambassador to Brazil, Georg Witschel, said
it was “complete nonsense” to say that Nazism was a leftist political movement.
The diplomat said there was consensus among German and world historians that
Hitler was leading a right-wing political movement.
The German Embassy in Brazil posted a
video explaining the culture of remembrance over the Holocaust in Germany. The
video said that Germans “don’t hide from their past,” adding that “from a young
age they’re taught to confront the horrors of the Holocaust.” The post garnered
some 776,000 views on the embassy’s Facebook page, not to mention a number of
contentious comments.
According to Deutsche Welle, the official
broadcaster of the German government, the video was met with unexpected
hostility from many Brazilians. Some insisted that Adolf Hitler espoused a
left-wing ideology, others sought to deny the Holocaust.
Many of these Brazilians were enraged by
the assertion that the Nazi party was a right-wing movement, pointing to its
official name, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, as evidence that
it was leftist instead.
Other commenters questioned the validity
of the Holocaust, where 6 million Jews lost their lives. Brazilian Holocaust
deniers took to the post to label the Holocaust a “holofraud,” which prompted the
German embassy to respond.
“The Holocaust is a historical fact, with
proof and testimony that can be found in many parts of Europe,” the embassy
wrote in response to one post.
Deutsche Welle added that “Another argument
plays on the statist economic policies of the Nazi regime, but this was also a
practice of standard right-wing regimes, such as Spain under Franco and Brazil’s
own military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985.”
There is a big controversy when the
Brazilian president and his foreign minister said that Nazism was left-wing,
but Yad Vashem, the Jewish Virtual Library and the German Embassy in Brazil said
that Nazism was right-wing. How to make sense from this controversy?
I like the perspective of Rev. Erwin W.
Lutzer, who in his book “Hitler’s Cross: How the Cross of Christ was used to
promote the Nazi agenda” (Moody Publishers, 1995), said that Nazism was an
occult movement that used anti-Marxist propaganda.
In this sense, everything makes sense. For
example, Ernesto
Araújo has written a diplomatic essay praising “traditionalism” (conservatism).
He said, “To try to understand Trump, you should read the traditionalist
master René Guénon, a major influence on Steve Bannon, former chief strategist
of the White House and still central in the movement that brought Trump to the
presidency.”
For Araújo, all the conservative aspects
of the Trump administration were a direct influence of Bannon, who was
influenced by the Islamic occultist Guénon. For him, to praise the Trump administration
is to praise Bannon and Guénon. Obviously, he is wrong, because the
conservative aspects of the Trump administration are evangelical, not
Guenonian.
So Araújo tried to credit to Guenonian
Bannon the conservatism of the Trump administration.
The most prominent disciple of Guénon was
Julius Evola, who advised Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and Nazism.
Guénon and Evola are prominent references in
Araújo’s diplomatic essay against Marxism and defending “traditionalism.”
So, if Nazism was left-wing, as advocated
by Araújo, why did it have a prominent anti-Marxist occultist as its adviser?
Occultists
provoke confusions and chaos wherever they are.
Araújo is an adherent of self-styled
philosopher Olavo de Carvalho, a prominent adherent of Guénon. Even Bolsonaro
has propagandized Carvalho as the greatest Brazilian right-winger, even
though Carvalho has said that he is not left-winger or right-winger.
You
could label Carvalho a left-winger, because many of his methods are clearly
left-wing. He reviles his critics in an approach that he himself admits was
firstly used by Lenin. He also accuses others of what he does. He lies as a
genuine communist. To say that the Inquisition was a myth created by Jews and
Protestants and that smoking does not harm are two of his many lies.
Another
controversial side of Carvalho is that he is known for his anti-Protestant
diatribes, but he chose self-exile as a Brazilian immigrant in the largest
Protestant nation in the world. Not different from the hypocrisy of Brazilian
socialists who slam the U.S. capitalism, but they choose to immigrate to the
U.S.
Araújo became an adherent of Guénon and
Evola as the direct influence of Carvalho, who for decades has promoted and recommended
Guénon, even though after I have exposed Guénon as occultist, Carvalho has feigned
to reject him.
Araújo’s traditionalism or anti-Marxism is
not based on Christian principles. It is based on Guénon. And Nazism and fascism
were advised by Evola, an anti-Marxist occultist who was a disciple of Guénon.
If
Nazism was left-wing, it follows that Evola was too, that Guénon was too, and
that Carvalho and Araújo are too.
What can Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro
get by being advised by Araújo and Carvalho, whose anti-Marxism is not based on
Christianity, but on Guénon?
I commend Bolsonaro for his visit to
Israel. I have prayed for many years for Brazil to get aligned with Israel.
This is the reason why I and millions of Brazilian evangelicals voted for him.
Israel and evangelicals have everything to do with one another. This is the
reason why Israeli
Prime-Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, in his January visit to Brazil, “We
have no better friends in the world than the Evangelical community, and the
Evangelical community has no better friend in the world than the State of
Israel.”
Despite that evangelicals massively voted
for Bolsonaro, he has let Carvalho influence him. In his next visit to Israel,
will Bolsonaro say that the Inquisition was a “myth” to please his Guenonian
adviser?
What
does Carvalho have to do with Israel? He is the most prominent advocate of
the Inquisition in Brazil. He advocates its revisionism in the
same way Holocaust deniers advocate revisionism. Both the Inquisition and the
Holocaust tortured and killed Jews.
By accepting Guenonian advisers, Bolsonaro
has put himself and Brazil in danger. The Brazilian right-wing trend of advocating
the Inquisition has nothing to do with conservative evangelicals who elected
Bolsonaro. This is the reason why I have been leading the evangelical effort to
expose this trend.
If the Bolsonaro administration ends in
disaster, evangelical voters cannot be blamed. But I fear that future
historians will blame evangelicals, who love Israel, and forget about Carvalho,
who loves the Inquisition.
After all, how many do historians today
remember that Nazism and fascism were influenced by anti-Marxist Guenonian
Evola? How many will future historians remember that Bolsonaro was influenced
by anti-Marxist Guenonian Carvalho?
By seeing the word “socialism” in Nazism,
and seeing Brazilian right-wingers labeling Nazism socialism, I believed it too
in the past. But when
I saw later the same Brazilian right-wingers vigorously defending the Inquisition,
I began to ask: What is behind this movement? The answer I found: Occultism.
Occultism
always provokes confusion and chaos. The same occultism that was behind Nazism
is today behind Carvalho, Araújo and other Guenonians hijacking the Bolsonaro
administration. They love the Inquisition and are opportunists in the Bolsonaro
administration. I use the word “opportunist” because it was
this term Trump used against Bannon when he fired him.
We evangelicals love Israel and we hate
the Inquisition, the Holocaust, occultism and Marxism. We voted for Bolsonaro
for him to support Israel and move the Brazilian Embassy to Jerusalem, not for him
to make Guenonians great again.
Since Evola with Mussolini, this is the
first time Guenonians have a chance to influence a government again.
Evangelicals, who love Israel, need to
pray and watch, because anti-Marxist “traditionalist” occultism is preying
again on unsuspecting conservatives. Perhaps Bolsonaro is one of its victims,
but certainly he has been its main enabler in Brazil.
With information from Jerusalem Post, Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, Deutsche Welle, Yad Vashem, Reuters, New York Times and
Globo.
Portuguese
version of this article: Presidente Jair Bolsonaro disse que o nazismo era um
movimento de esquerda depois de visitar o Museu do Holocausto em Jerusalém. Mas
o museu, que é um memorial às vítimas judaicas do nazismo, diz que o nazismo
era um movimento de direita. E
agora?
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Recommended Reading about the
Inquisition:
Just as there are right-wing Jews, there are left-wing Jews. Many Jews are socialists and you know it. I'm sure you know "Zionist Socialism".
ReplyDeleteNazism arose from Socialism. Communism arose from Socialism. Nazi and communist dictators were inspired by Fascism. Fascism has the same root as Socialism.
Finally, read Hitler's interview with The Guardian in 1923.