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Into the Cannibal’s Pot – Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa, Ilana Mercer, Seattle: Stairway Press, 2011.
RSA-USA—Beloved, Benighted Countries
By Derek Turner, Alternative Right, Nov. 19, 2011
Ilana Mercer is a well-known controversialist on the American right, who writes a deservedly popular WorldNetDaily column and somehow finds time to maintain both a website and blog.
Her views are probably best described as paleo-libertarian. The book’s provocative title, which probably cost her potential readers, is borrowed from Ayn Rand, but the author tempers capitalist principles with respect for national identities and cultural traditions. Unusually amongst conservatives, she combines Israelophilia and dislike of Islam with trenchant opposition to American military adventurism. Unusually amongst libertarians, she is an outspoken critic of current US immigration policy as subversive of social order as well as fiscal responsibility. She has now turned her sights on her former homeland of South Africa – both for its own sake and because she feels its tenebrous present contains urgent indicators for America.
The author was born in South Africa, the daughter of a rabbi, but the family had to leave in the 1960s because of her father’s anti-apartheid outspokenness. They decamped to Israel, before the author moved back to South Africa in the 1980s to start a family. She was (and is) against apartheid; she recalls having tea with Desmond Tutu and being on the Grand Parade in Cape Town in 1990 to witness Mandela’s release. From there she went to Canada and eventually the United States.
george ashmore on 23 Nov 2011 at 10:51 am #
She sounds like a true freethinker–they need all the support they can get in this world.
rjp on 23 Nov 2011 at 6:25 pm #
In theory, her book should be a best seller in the USA.
It won’t be. Very few people care what is happening to this country. Even less know what is happening in South Africa ….
Nelson Mandela is spoken about as if hero here — he’s no hero, he [edit]. We are on the same path and the speed picked up on the day after Election Day 2009. Let’s hope a few more people wake up in this country because it is going to be a war, just like there is going to be in South Africa.
roho on 24 Nov 2011 at 1:04 am #
No different than Zimbabwe, and comming to Detroit, Atlanta, and all American cities………..Apartheid, Jim Crow, call it what you wish? It worked!……..And I’m old enough to remember when it did.