How George Soros Became The Right’s Scapegoat
JVL Introduction
George Soros has become the go-to liberal activist on whom the conspiratorial fantasies of modern-day antisemites are projected.
In this article Rand Engel races Soros’s history and career, from surviving the Holocaust in his native Hungry, to penniless student in England, so extraordinary financial success as an investment fund manager.
You would have thought him the ideal image for supporters of free enterprise ideology: the rise of the self-made man.
But Soros has put his vast fortune into active support for things like press freedom and development, minority rights and advancement, ending apartheid, education, the art of debate and discourse, empowerment of women, civil society development, civil rights, social justice, immigration reform, journalism, and drug reform among a multitude of activities.
Enough to fuel the darkest fears of any dictator or aspiring antisemite…
This article was originally published by Rantt Media on Sat 20 Mar 2021. Read the original here.
How George Soros Became The Right’s Scapegoat
Over the years, false and antisemitic attacks on George Soros have been used to undermine pro-democracy causes and the struggle to expand human rights.
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George Soros is an inspiring and remarkable man. What courage and resilience.
“The current Russian neo fascist autocracy” that nonsense was enough for me. What a sad day when a socialist site publishes a hagiography of, and I put this as generously as I can, I deeply flawed individual whose money making activities have hurt many people.
Excellent article. Very interesting to learn that Popper was his tutor – in
addition to his open Society Popper was responsible for the falsifiability criteria representing a paradigm shift in epistemological theory and so it is entirely fitting that he should have spawned such a worthy student who is in turn challenging the restrictive neo-liberal paradigm that currently imprisons so many of us and it would appear scares the hell out of those promoting it.
“Enemies of the open society typically treat life as a zero-sum game: they get more only if others get less. When others do not agree to less, force is required – violence. This is often, of course, played out as ethno-nationalist identity politics. Opponents can be “taken off the board” by disenfranchisement, character assassination, or more direct violence.”
Well, that’s the British establishment’s reaction to Coryn’s mild social democracy in a nutshell.
The question is ‘Why are people still so easily misled a century after Robert Tressell wrote The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. They had the excuse of shortage of counter information to the ideology of British imperilaism.
Good article. I especially appreciated the link to, and explanation of, Karl Popper’s philosophy.
I always prefer people who are what they are, out there in plain sight, whatever side they are o
What we suffer from badly are people who say anything but their prayers to get into power or smear their political enemies
Temporary Embarrassment is the latest liar and charlatan in a long list
I think of Soros as a tragic figure who has seen so much of what he longed for fail. He poured out his money like water to help dissidents subvert the Soviet empire, and after its fall to defend minorities from genocidal nationalism, and he has failed. He was sustained for decades in a religious belief in the redemptive power of free markets as the basis of a free society, but he was intelligent enough to have seen for himself well before the crash of 2008 that ‘the market’ wasn’t free or fair. It was basically rigged. He’s said this openly and it’s been the god that failed for him but he hasn’t been able to put something else in its place. I saw one of these failures close up with the Roma rights work; trying to protect individual rights in the middle of an economy that was being dismantled and its welfare protections being abolished could not succeed. This is an embarrassingly uncritical article! But Soros has still shown heroism even though he has failed.