The Christianity-Stalinism Connection : L'affaire Gibson in retrospect

Little did Mel know, but when he let spill his infamous late-July rant about Jewish people he blundered into one of those vortices where currents of great historical value systems collide.

Mel did not just blurt out a personal opinion, he stood precisely on that line where Christianity and Stalinism meet, a place normally of such conflicting ideas most mortals would become disoriented. He was, like most of us, the converse of Hegel's great man, a near-victim of dialectics beyond his control. The Gibson affair is over for the police, courts, and mass media, but its implications not.