As it happens, I mostly (that is important word) agree with the views you expressed. I also don't say that Kirby was antisemitic, obviously. In fact, I didn't comment on the comic at all, since I have not read it, but only on your description of it. And that description manages to repeat an astounding amount of typical German worldview from before the Second World War. I found that curious.
As it happens, I did read (on the strength of your enthusiasm) Kirby's comic about the space gods. And the subterranean race of mutated gnomes who hate the clean-limbed humanity and want to pollute it - again, resembles something. It could be Picts, of course (quite seriously - see Machen or Howard). Or it could be "I remember Lemuria" of Richard Shaver. Or, perhaps, Nibelungs of Wagner.
I suggested therefore a certain thought experiment to distinguish between surface appearances and real content. To explain, whether someone is ugly or blue-eyed, whether he has hook nose or blond hair is a surface appearance. If we can create a piece of perfect Nazi propaganda merely by substiting one for the other, it can suggest that there is some problem. And that problem is NOT antisemitism, of course. Neither fascism.
Kirby was born in 1917, it seems. Those people who lived through the Great Depression had certain similarities in their worldview. As to Kirby, he was quite obviously influenced by the New Deal. The similarities between New Deal and corporationism popular in fascist and conservative countries are obvious.
Even before the Depression there was a lot of similar ideas in the air. I could suggest similarities between fascists and Tolkien, Howard, Machen, Lovecraft, C.A. Smith, F. Scott Fitzgerald, etc. That does not mean that any of them was fascist.
Of course, you can consider that the only important thing is whether the evil speculator is described as Jewish or not. I think that this is not only important thing.
Most importantly, it seems that the traders managed once again to create an immense bubble and bust. Historically, it always ended with the search for both guilty and for scapegoats. I am curious how it will end today.
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As it happens, I did read (on the strength of your enthusiasm) Kirby's comic about the space gods. And the subterranean race of mutated gnomes who hate the clean-limbed humanity and want to pollute it - again, resembles something. It could be Picts, of course (quite seriously - see Machen or Howard). Or it could be "I remember Lemuria" of Richard Shaver. Or, perhaps, Nibelungs of Wagner.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/irl/index.htm
I suggested therefore a certain thought experiment to distinguish between surface appearances and real content. To explain, whether someone is ugly or blue-eyed, whether he has hook nose or blond hair is a surface appearance. If we can create a piece of perfect Nazi propaganda merely by substiting one for the other, it can suggest that there is some problem. And that problem is NOT antisemitism, of course. Neither fascism.
Kirby was born in 1917, it seems. Those people who lived through the Great Depression had certain similarities in their worldview. As to Kirby, he was quite obviously influenced by the New Deal. The similarities between New Deal and corporationism popular in fascist and conservative countries are obvious.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Recovery_Administration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiciary_Reorganization_Bill_of_1937
Even before the Depression there was a lot of similar ideas in the air. I could suggest similarities between fascists and Tolkien, Howard, Machen, Lovecraft, C.A. Smith, F. Scott Fitzgerald, etc. That does not mean that any of them was fascist.
Of course, you can consider that the only important thing is whether the evil speculator is described as Jewish or not. I think that this is not only important thing.
Most importantly, it seems that the traders managed once again to create an immense bubble and bust. Historically, it always ended with the search for both guilty and for scapegoats. I am curious how it will end today.