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1. Russell and Hitler
RUSSELL PLAYED MANY STRINGS on his fiddle of evil.
His proposals for genocide, especially against populations
with darker skin-hues than that of the Vril Society's
self-esteemed Anglo-Saxon master race, are fully as satanic,
and more viciously personalized than his policies
of world dictatorship through nuclear terrorism. He was
also a savage hoaxster in his corrosie influence within
the domains of philosophy and natural science. He was
not even truly British; there is not a gram of concern
for the well-being of the inhabitants of the United Kingdom
in that scoundrel. No notable representative of
liberal philosophy during this century, not even such
consummately perverse creatures as Sigmund Freud or
Theodor Adorno,15 has been so consistently a virtual
incarnation of Satan as the Mephistopheles of this century,
the evil Russell.
Yet, within each part of the intellectual spectrum
which he infested at one time or another of his life, there
are still dupes who regard this unmitigated scoundrel as
a respectable figure, even a great intellect. How could
15. On Adorno ahd the Frankfurt School's influence, see Michael
J. Minnicino, "The New Dark Age: The Frankfurt School and
'Political Correctness,' " Fidelia. Vol. I, No.1, Winter 1992; see
also, Michael J. Minnicino "The Nazi-Communist Roots of Post­
Modernism," Fidelia. Vol. II, No. 2, Summer 1993.
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