Re: [Marxism] Hungary 1956

[Einde O'Callaghan <einde@xxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect wrote:
> H. Rakovsky wrote:
>
> "I suggest reading David Irving's book "Uprising" where he goes to
> Hungary in 1986 and gives many first hand accounts. His own perspective
> sympathizes with the Hungarians, not the Russians. He characterizes it
> as an uprising, not a full revolution."
>
> This name might ring a bell. It is the same David Irving who was sued in
> a holocaust denial case in Great Britain. I have heard, however, that
> his book on Hungary is valuable and free of the bias that would
> eventually manifest itself. Ken McLeod vouches for it, for what that's
> worth.
David Irving is a well-known British Nazi and Holocaust denier and I
would regard anything that he had written with the utmost suspicion,
even if Ken McLeod - a writer for whom I've got a lot of respect and
whose books I like a lot - vouches for it. The resume given by the OP
doesn't make me any less suspicious since as far as I can see it's
fairly typical Irving anti-semitic bullshit, i.e. the Jews are to blame
for everything

I must say I'm also very surprised that Louis hasn't nixed this
discussion - indeed has participated in it - as I would have thought it
to be one of those themes that rapidly becomes bogged down in the
Stalinist vs. Trotskyist "debate" that Louis usually bans from the list.




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