Nadine Gordimer: Anti-Apartheid Communist Jew Dies
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 5:08 am

Karl Radl
When I read the news this morning that Nadine Gordimer; the novelist who was resident in South Africa, had died I must confess to having felt utterly elated. When you are on the nationalist right you see much that saddens you and yet every once in a while you get one of those warm fuzzy moments that you feel when a new epoch has begun to dawn as one of the obstacles to its advent has been removed.
The death of Nadine Gordimer provoked such a reaction in me and I certainly don't apologize for it. The woman was a thoroughly evil piece of work given that she was closely associated with jewish anti-Apartheid terrorists like Joe Slovo and; his wife, Ruth First. (1) And lets face it neither Slovo or First were 'freedom fighters' they were out and out revolutionary communists who believed in the supremacy and necessity of class war and the mass murder of their opponents when they got in power.
A prophecy which has come true I might add in the sadistic and almost innumerable racially-motivated murders of Afrikaaners by negroes who have been fed on the kind of material that Gordimer produced until her far too delayed demise, while they were still at the mother's breast.
In spite of claiming to be 'non-political' and that she was 'forced into politics by the situation in South Africa' (which liberals and left-wings; as usual, eat up uncritically): (2) Gordimer was a convinced Marxist who envisioned anti-Western racialized class war on a global scale (most notably in her 1966 novel 'The Late Bourgeois World') (3) until such time as the races became 'post-racial' and live together in a weird socialist utopia that makes Thomas More's look positively realistic. (4)
Indeed Gordimer only seems to have been close friends with fellow Marxists (who were usually jewish) and negroes (5) as opposed to actually engaging with the average Anglo or Afrikaaner member of society as well. Indeed she had a fairly visceral hatred of Afrikaans as a language; (6) which is hardly the sort of view you'd expect from a supposedly 'non-political' littérateur who was only out for 'social justice' and to fight 'racial prejudice', and expressed a hatred of Afrikaaners as a people; as well as individuals, several times in her novels.
An example is given to us by South African anti-racism campaigner Dan Roodt when he cites the following passage from Gordimer's 1974 novel 'The Conservationist':
'The [De Beer = Afrikaans] child will sink, she will drown if she lets go of her mother, yet her clinging is flirtatious, she tries to make him look at her so that she may at once hide her head against the mother’s thigh. She’s a beautiful child as their children often are — where do they get them from? — and she’ll grow up — what do they do to them? — the same sort of vacant turnip as the mother... To go into those women must be like using the fleshy succulent plants men in the Foreign Legion have to resort to.' (7)
In other words Gordimer is referring to Afrikaaner women and children as 'vacant turnips' who have closet lesbian tendencies ('yet her clinging is flirtatious'/'hide their head against the mother's thigh') and while she is beautiful she is incapable of knowing real sexual joy because she isn't 'liberated' and doesn't want to have sex with random negroes she meets on the street ('to go into those women must be like using he fleshy succulent plants men in the Foreign Legion have to resort to').
Oh yes: Gordimer was such a wonderful humanitarian character wasn't she?
Indeed; as Roodt observes elsewhere, Gordimer got her hatred of Afrikaaners 'from Lithuania not from Natal'. (8) What he is not saying of course is that Gordimer's jewishness is absolutely key to her anti-Apartheid activism, her literary identity and indeed her close association with the South African Communist Party (whose higher echelons and intellectual supporters were so jewish as to make you think it was the Israeli Communist Party).
When Roodt talks of her hatred coming from Lithuania not Natal: it is a reference to the fact that it wasn't; as Gordimer herself liked to claim (9) as an after the fact justification and a form of self-mythologisation, the 'condition of the negroes' in South Africa that was the origin of her activism, but rather her deep-seated fear of European people who excluded jews from the social elite being in control.
This derives; as Roodt intimates, from Lithuania and it is Gordimer's jewishness which is the key factor in motivating her, because her father; as a jewish emigrant from that country, would have seen nationalistic Europeans in control as being a threat to themselves as jews: since it was; to their mind, similar nationalistic Europeans who had launched pogroms for years against jews like the Gordimer family and also actively excluded them from the professions that some of them aspired to.
This Gordimer claimed she saw mirrored in the South Africa in which she grew up, (10) but we don't fight for other people really (we only offer that as a justification): rather we fight for ourselves and our own perceived benefit to achieve success as a hero, as an entrepreneur, a social activist and the like.
We also tend to fight with and/or for others because we are concerned that they might at some point 'come for us' so to speak: so if you fear that you will one day be the enemy that the state is struggling against you.
Evidence of this is found in the fact that Gordimer remained proud of being jewish; and not being a European or an Afrikaaner, all of her life (11) and was 'shocked' that her negro friends regarded her as a European invader. (12) However she blamed this attitude; as well as the 'lack of progress' towards her Utopian 'post-racial' society, on the 'lack of education of the Apartheid generation' (aka she blamed the 'evil Afrikaaners' for literally every evil that she perceived in South Africa). (13)
After all if Gordimer was really seeking a 'post-racial' society then why would she be 'proud' of her proverbial 'accident of birth'?
Also why; if she was as 'colour-blind' as she claims, would the fact that her negro friends regard her as a European trouble her so much?
Following on from that: why; if Gordimer was as interested in 'social justice' as she claims, does she blame the supposed 'lack of education' under Apartheid given that this has not been the case for more than two decades?
It couldn't be that Gordimer had an ethnic agenda of her own and that her much treasured identity as a jewess was at the root of her opposition to those she regarded as a threat to her well-being and success: Anglos and Afrikaaners in South Africa. Could it?
In other words: Gordimer was jewish, a communist, a hypocrite and an anti-white bigot.
Lovely lady: wasn't she?
References
(1) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/book ... fraid.html
(2) http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/books ... .html?_r=0
(3) http://pzacad.pitzer.edu/NAM/general/es ... rdimer.htm
(4) Ibid.
(5) http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/prin ... /gor1int-1
(6) http://www.oulitnet.co.za/gras/nad.asp
(7) Ibid.http://praag.org/?p=5584
(8) http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/afr ... story.html
(9) Ibid.
(10) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28295542
(11) Ibid.
(12) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/book ... fraid.html