Re: Auschwitz in Bulgaria

[Johannes.Schneider@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Macdonald wrote:

> Johannes:
>
> > 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.
>
> While you are of course right, so long as the Holocaust is used to
> describe
> Yugoslavia where at most 2000 people died in the decade before the war,
> the
> number of dead in reforms is a far better analogy because "The reforms
> were
> a consciously planned, complete and bureaucratically executed total
> impoverishment and dismantling of an entire region".
>

Macdonald,

I am just begging for intellectual honesty. Is it so difficult to see the
difference between shooting or killing people with gas and the results of a
desastrous economic policy? Sorry to say, but you are arguing on the same
intellectual level as revisionist who say Jews and Roma only died in
concentration camps because of diseases and there was no intention to kill them.

In Europe right-wing intellectuals try to equate Hitler and Stalin by
saying  as a result of Stalins wrong economic policies (e.g. collectivazion)
even more people died in famines than people were killed by the Nazi holocaust.
The utter nonsense of such an argumentation should be obvious.

Furthermore I do not understand why certain left-wingers have to compare
any injustice or political crime in any part of the world to the holocaust.
The only reason I can see for this is that it is the bad intellectual
heritage of Stalinist popular-front policies. You think by describing a 
political
enemy as a fascist you can win over some liberals to join you.

But to me (and I think to most liberals, this kind of reasoning intends to
win over) it just exposes the weakness of the argument.

Johannes

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