element: the class society without
rank. America is governed like a
business concern, while Russia, in
this book, reveals itself as the suc–
cessor of the Catholic hierarchy.
Thus, by definition, "decency, fair–
ness, and cleanliness" cannot exist
in America. How primitive the
world is for this coldly malicious
Catholic myth-manufacturer! It
consists only of hell, earth, and
heaven.
As
is often the case, con–
cealed under the sociological fus–
tian is an imagination which sees
the devil everywhere.
The ideological stamp on this
work is the idea that America is a
business society in which the busi–
nessman dictates and the dollar
rules; values, rank and honor are
unheard of, hence the material and
spiritual barrenness of the country,
which is truly the outcast of the
universe. In earlier times it was
often said that the evils of Ameri–
can materialism had been infect–
ing Europe, the innocent Parsifal.
In the age of bloodthirsty myths
Matthias has created a new mon–
ster: the American in person.
Compared with earlier un-
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friendly reports on America, this
new attack is distinguished by a
theological witch-hunting attitude
which gives rise to pogroms; it is
an after-birth of the Hitler period.
In the manner that the J ew was
represented, Matthias now repre–
sents the American: as a con–
glomeration of all evil. His anti–
Americanism is the genuine suc–
cessor of that anti-Semitism. A
whole nation is made to look like
the very incarnation of the " Evil
One." The Hamburg paper
Die
Zeit
entitled its review "When Evil
Intent Guides the Writer's Pen."
The
Neue Zuricher Zeitung
gave
the wretched work the title:
"America Through a Distorting
Mirror." Perhaps the best title for
such a review would be
S
ein
Kampf·
The trick of this book is that it
quotes only American sources.
It
is an anthology of American anti–
American remarks. There is no bet–
ter way to mislead than with guar–
anteed genuine quotations. With
malicious zeal Matthias combed
hundreds of American publications
for anti-American passages. These
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