Re: Auschwitz in Bulgaria

["Johannes Schneider" <Johannes.Schneider@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect quoted:

> AUSCHWITZ NEAR SOFIA...
>
> By Ivan Angelov, born 1943; International Relations Graduate (1969); Ph.D.
> (1975); Associate Professor (1988)
>
> In the same way, both local and foreign politicians and opinion makers
seem
> not to notice how Auschwitz is being reproduced here these days when the
> life of millions of that country population has been turned into a
> humiliating everyday fight for bare survival as a result of the
> introduction of a series of inadequate economic measures and policies.

I think its rather inapropiate to compare the results of capitalist
privatization in Bulgaria to the Nazi holocaust.

The holocaust was a consciously planned, complete and bureaucratically
exectuted extermination of whole peoples. I do not think one needs much
intellectual capacities to understand, that its something different than
what is happening in Bulgaria today.

Its obvious that such a comparision belittles the holocaust. At the same
time it does not help the resistance againts the reintroduction of private
capitalism in Eastern Europe, because such comparisions have the effect that
the rest of the article can easily be dismissed as wrong as well.

Johannes