From: "Karl Carlile" <expresspost-AT-tinet.ie>
Subject: M-I: Re: Nazism and holocaust
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 11:21:06 -0700


KARL CARLILE: Hi Jeff!

JEFF: Attempting to analyse the Holocaust in isolation from fascism is
about as
sensible as analysing the Russian Civil War while ignoring the
revolution.

KARL: The more fundamental problem, which has featured on this list, is
the exclusive identification of what is known as the Holocaust with
fascism. It has frequently been said here and elsewhere that fascism,
particularly German fascism, is the source of the Holocaust. This
thesis effects an artificial bifurcation between fascism and
capitalism. The fundamental point is that the source of the Holocuast
is capitalism. It is this that is generally ignored. By effecting a
false dichotomy between fascism and capitalism the political basis of
any analysis of the Holocaust necessarily entails a coresponding
bifurcation between the struggle against fascism and the struggle
against capitalism. In this way the condition is created for struggle
against fascism assuming a reactionary all-class form rather than a
revolutionary anti-capitalist/fascist form. The former is precisely the
character of much of the anti-fascist organisations that exist today.

The "we're here because we're right" mantra will never serve
proletarian class interests.


Greetings,
Karl



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