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 --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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