So Pipes' examination of recent American conspiracies is not only brief,
but also bogus. However, the book does include an interesting analysis of
the role of paranoid conspiracy myths under Hitler and Stalin. Pipes
showed that Hitler began with a crude model of Jewish conspiracy as
promulgated by the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" and
undertook to convince the German people that every Jew in the land was
equally responsible for the calumnies described there; while at the same
time, Hitler himself was at the center of a small secret society of
psychopathic individuals who were busily implementing an exact replica of
the evil plan described in the Protocols. Yet even regarding this
remarkable set of circumstances, Pipes' analysis is strangely myopic. He
ascribes the paradox to a simple ironic effect, that individuals who
believe in the power of conspiracies, are likely to want to apply that
power to their own projects. There is no discussion of the probability
that the occult secret societies essentially
created Hitler (rather than the other way around), nor any
acknowledgement of the crucial role of American
high finance. Any serious analysis of the curious,
well-documented
collaboration of the Zionists and Nazis in pursuit of a hidden agenda, would also cause difficulties for Pipes' oversimplified view of the Hitler regime.
FROM...
http://www.911-strike.com/conspiracy-denial.htm
See also...
http://www.publiceye.org/b_conspi.html
