[Marxism] RE: Marxism Digest, Vol 32, Issue 43

[mo <leoneill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can you repost Vol32 issue 43
I got just the first 4 topics. Thanks --mo

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Today's Topics:

   1. Adorno, Zionism and The 'Anti-Deutschers' (Ian Pace)
   2. Horowitz' funding  ( Kathleen de la Pe?a McCook )
   3. Re: Horowitz' funding (Brian Shannon)
   4. Re: Adorno, Zionism and The 'Anti-Deutschers' (Johannes Schneider)
   5. NYTimes.com: In Oil-Rich Angola,  Cholera Preys Upon Poorest
      (dbachmozart@xxxxxxx)
   6. Re: Re: [Marxism] Adorno, Zionism and The 'Anti-Deutschers'
      (Johannes Schneider)
   7. Re: Re: [Marxism] Adorno, Zionism and The 'Anti-Deutschers'
      (Ian Pace)
   8. Anti-Deutscher (Louis Proyect)
   9. Re: Anti-Deutscher (Louis Proyect)
  10. Re: Re: Re: [Marxism] Adorno, Zionism and The
      'Anti-Deutschers' (Johannes Schneider)
  11. Re: Adorno, Zionism and The 'Anti-Deutschers' (Marc Simpson)
  12. Being polled (Louis Proyect)
  13. Michael Klare on Iran and the great powers (Louis Proyect)
  14. Quick reply to the DSP on East Timor (Scott Hamilton)
  15. Re: Adorno, Zionism and The 'Anti-Deutschers' (Ian Pace)
  16. Virginia meets The Tramp (Brian Shannon)
  17. Re: Horowitz' funding (steve heeren)
  18. Re: Re: [Marxism] Adorno, Zionism and The 'Anti-Deutschers'
      (Johannes Schneider)
  19. Re: Adorno, Zionism and The 'Anti-Deutschers' (Marc Simpson)
  20. iPods are evil  (Stiofan OBuadhaigh)
  21. Peacock (Louis Proyect)
  22. Fwd: Beyond "Capital"-- the future is up to us (DLVinvest@xxxxxx)
  23. Puerto Rican Obituary, Pedro's Vision Lives On (Alex Briscoe)
  24. Re: Adorno, Zionism and The 'Anti-Deutschers' (RsKlump)
  25. MoveOn follies (Louis Proyect)
  26. Amnesty for immigrants means human rights for all by      Cristina
      Gutierrez (Bonnie Weinstein)
  27. Re: Being polled (DCQ)
  28. RE: Being polled (Mark Lause)


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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:56:11 +0100
From: "Ian Pace" <ian@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Marxism] Adorno, Zionism and The 'Anti-Deutschers'
To: "Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition"
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From: "Johannes Schneider" <Johannes.Schneider@xxxxxxx>
>
>>    Another component of the "anti-German" political spectrum is the
>> "Arbeiterbund fC<r den Wiederaufbau der KPD" [Workers leage for the
>> reconstruction of the PC], for whom the war against Jugoslavia was
>> instigated by Germany, who had just used the US military for their
>> purposes.
>>
>
> Which has only a few dozens of members.
>
> Most of the Anti-Germans are followers of the Frankfurt School (Adorno,
> Horkheimer).

That's very interesting. I'm about to investigate further Adorno's
relationship with Zionism and views on the Islamic world. According to
Stefan Muller-Doohm's biography of Adorno:

'Towards the end of 1956, when France and Britain launched a military
assault on Egypt and an article in Der Spiegel attacked the way the United
Nations had condemned their invasion, Adorno and Horkheimer wrote to the
writer Julius Ebbinghaus, agreeing with Der Spiegel.[9]

'The fact that people have discovered humanity when faced by a fascist
chieftain like Nasser who conspires with Moscow; that, as in Hitler's time,
they show greater concern about breaking treaties than about the treaties
themselves and their sanctity; and that no one even ventures to point out
that these Arab robber states have been on the lookout for years for an
opportunity to fall upon Israel and to slaughter the Jews who have found
refuge there - all this is a symptom of public consciousness that has to be
taken very seriously indeed. The hypocrisy ... in almost every camp is proof

of a confusion of thought that bodes ill for the future' [10]

[9] Ebbinghaus was a philosopher at the University of Marburg and a member
of the board of trustees of the International Association of the Philosophy
of Law and Social Philosophy.
[10] Max Horkheimer, Briefwechsel, GS, vol. 18, p. 377

(Stefan Muller-Doohm - Adorno: A Biography, translated Rodney Livingstone
(Cambridge, MA: Polity Press, 2005), p. 413)


For me this is the most damning thing I've come across about Adorno (more so

than his actions with the students in 1968-9) - a para-Zionist view of the
Holocaust that becomes used to lend support to Western imperialism. Sounds
like Adorno and Horkheimer were on the verge of becoming neo-conservatives
long before the movement took off in recent times :(

There are similar sentiments that Adorno expressed in 1967 - I could just
about forgive those on grounds of naivete (as I can with Paul Celan - who
celebrated the retaking of Jerusalem in 1967 in his poem 'Denk Dir' - the
following is interesting here -
http://barbaricdocument.blogspot.com/2006/03/complicity-of-paul-celan.html
),
but not in 1956. Anthony Eden was able to count upon Adorno and Horkheimer
for support for action that even the US balked at at the time.

By the way, this is coming from one (myself) who is extremely sympathetic to

a lot of Adorno's work and ideas. The ontological view that he assigned to
Auschwitz and German Nazism in the post-war years clouds his earlier Marxism

in many ways, and actually comes close to the type of mystification of the
Holocaust (precluding a materialist understanding of the growth of fascism)
that Norman Finkelstein criticises so powerfully. I think there's somewhere
he said to Horkheimer that the agent of history seemed to be the Jew rather
than the proletariat (I'll look up the reference for this if anyone wants
it) - this seems to be a belief that inexorably leads one towards the
'socialism of fools' that is Zionism.

Solidarity,
Ian


>
> Some of the theorems of the Anti-Germans can be traced back to Stalinism
> (e.g. popular front and disregard for the working class). Some German
> Stalinists even saw the allied occupation of Germany as the just
> punishment for the German working class which proved to be incapable of
> having prevented Hitler. Alexander Abusch theoritisied this view 1945 in
> his book "Irrweg einer Nation". (French title: Allemagne, jugeL
e par un
> Allemand.) This view will be certainly shared by today's Anti-Germans, who

> come to anti-Nazi demonstrations with the slogan: "Bomber Harris, do it
> again!".
>





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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:02:08 -0400
From: " Kathleen de la Pe?a McCook " <kmccook@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Marxism] Horowitz' funding
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CONNECTING THE DOTS
    The common funding souces for David Horowitz and those egging
    on the federal commission on higher education should worry all
    academics, writes Alan Jones.
       http://insidehighered.com/views/2006/06/16/jones
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Union Librarian
http://unionlibrarian.blogspot.com/
AFT Local 7463



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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:40:40 -0400
From: Brian Shannon <brian_shannon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Marxism] Re: Horowitz' funding
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On Jun 16, 2006, at 8:02 AM, Kathleen de la Peqa McCook wrote:

> CONNECTING THE DOTS
> The common funding souces for David Horowitz and those egging on
> the federal commission on higher education should worry all
> academics, writes Alan Jones.
> http://insidehighered.com/views/2006/06/16/jones
> ================
> Union Librarian
> http://unionlibrarian.blogspot.com/
> AFT Local 7463

This is a detailed description of the rise and success of right-wing
funding. Behind the Birch Society, Horowitz's campaigns, School
Choice, the Federalist Society, Bush's faith-based programs, and
Allan Bloom's "The Closing of the American Mind" is a heavily-
financed, sophisticated skein of foundations, think tanks and
publications.

In other words, this is not just about David Horowitz, often attacked
for getting in on the gravy train but who could have easily leveraged
his youthful writings into a professorship himself. It's about a
"vast right-wing conspiracy."

You shouldn't overlook clicking on the highlighted links, in
particular the one on the Federalist Society, which leads to:
http://www.nationalreview.com/miller/miller200602270759.asp


Brian Shannon




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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:45:02 +0200
From: "Johannes Schneider" <Johannes.Schneider@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Marxism] Adorno, Zionism and The 'Anti-Deutschers'
To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition
        <marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Ian Pace wrote:

> I'm about to investigate further Adorno's
> relationship with Zionism and views on the Islamic world.

You should check this one:

Stephan Grigat
Befreite Gesellschaft und Israel
Zum VerhC$ltnis von Kritischer Theorie und Zionismus
(erschienen in: Stephan Grigat (Hg.): FeindaufklC$rung und Reeducation.
Kritische Theorie
gegen Postnazismus und Islamismus. Freiburg: C'a ira-Verlag 2006, S. 115 -
129)
http://www.cafecritique.priv.at/pdf/ktUndZionismus.pdf

The author is one of the leading theoreticans of the Anti-Deutschen and
quite representattive for the way they argue: "Antiimperialismus als Feind
der Emanzipation" (Anti-imperialism as the enemy of emancipation).
They see the anti-colonial movement as a direct successor of German fascism.

--


"Feel free" b



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