File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/marxism-international.9709, message 136


Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 16:58:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: louisgodena-AT-ids.net (Louis R Godena)
Subject: M-I: Austin, Goldhagen, *et al*




Several dozen lines into his latest tome, A Austin falls back --in ennui or
frustration or whatever -- into an *ad hominen* attack.  His opponents, he
tells us, are racist, or not very bright, or at the very least unschooled in
the intricacies of dialectic thinking, etc.  Like most academics, Mr A does
not like to be disagreed with, even if what they are disagreeing about is
facile, insouciant, or just plain silly.

And that is the problem with Goldhagen.  There is really no new scholarship
to HWE, no new startling facts, or even fact-based analysis.  It is merely
part of a larger campaign to enshrine the European holocaust with an
ahistorical --and wholly unwarranted -- "uniqueness" in the educated
public's mind and consciousness.  To tour the rogues' gallery of racists and
fascists gathered around Professor Goldhagen is to understand very well the
object of all this hullabaloo.  It is to prepare the Western public at large
and, especially, its "opinion leaders" for Israel's final disposition of the
Palestinian people, whose land, lives and history they have plundered quite
as efficiently as their Nazi progenitors.

The Final Solution for the Palestinian masses.

Louis Godena



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