“If by enlightenment and intellectual progress we mean the freeing of man from superstitious belief in evil forces, in demons and fairies, in blind fate — in short from the emancipation from fear,” Horkheimer says, “then denunciation of what is currently called reason is the greatest service reason can render”.

One can only wonder when the “slogans of promised land”, “chosen people” and “Amalek” were raised by Zionism did they not require denunciation for being fairy tales.

In 1948, the entire Palestine was turned into a “slaughterhouse”, a very large number of Palestinians were mercilessly butchered and forced to flee their native land in broad day light both Horkheimer and Adorno, the great philosophers who gave the world a gift of critical theory, were not only alive but were at the peak of their fame did not find time to denounce the unreason of those gory crimes committed by their fellow Jews?

As the Sabra and Shatila went on, both looked the other way, forgetting what once they themselves condemned as despicable indifference to humanity stating “Auschwitz happens when someone looks at the slaughterhouse and says they are animals”. However, once it happened to the Palestinians these privileged Ashkenazi philosophers watched the biggest carnage of history worse than Auschwitz happening without a whimper.

Imperialist wars are nothing but economic wars. They are endless because anarchy inherent in capitalism moves the crisis from one place to the other.

Today it is Greece, tomorrow it’s Spain, the day after tomorrow France and Switzerland are in its grip having their governments toppled.

Hence holocaust is inherent in capitalism. One holocaust leads to the other for this is the only way to realize accumulated capital. Since these are anarchic crises of capitalism, they keep changing temporo-spatial sites.

For the process of realization of capital, the Middle East, especially Palestine, is the most suitable place. The military industrial complex of the US earns billions by selling its ammunition to the Zionists.

Most of the money thrown into Palestinians’ genocide comes free to the apartheid entity. The State squeezes the money received by the tycoons selling the means of destruction from its taxpayers.

Akin to all other settler-colonial states, Israel thought that eventually it would get rid of Palestinians. The US considered it a future investment that could be arm-twisted according to its wishes.

But US under massive loans, the formation of BRICS, the Chinese causing a sudden dip of 60 billion $ in the US market by introducing DeepSeek, an AI enterprise free for all, have left........

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