[Marxism] Shame on Germany for Holocaust!!!!!!!!!!!

["Nestor Gorojovsky" <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Respuesta a:"Marxism Digest, Vol 32, Issue 44"
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Con fecha:16 Jun 2006, a las 23:28

> I haven't followed this thread too closely, so I hope I'm not
> repeating something that's already been discussed. I just wanted to
> add that this tendency within the German left to avoid criticism of
> Israel--and worse, to automatically equate anti-Zionism with
> antisemitism--is quite broad and deep, afflicting many (probably most)
> on the left and far left.

No, dear cde. Anna, you have not repeated anything, and even if you 
had, this that you are saying is worth repeating once and again.

This silence of the German left is probably the worst consequence of 
the imperialist-imposed sense of collective guilt of the German 
people for the crimes of their imperialist bourgeoisie.

Adorno, et al., as well as "anti-Deutsch" Leftists in general, are 
the ramhead of a social-democratic "normalization" of the German Left 
after 1945.  And we know who the Social-Democrats, particularly the 
German SDs, are (as from the point of view of History with capital 
letters, I mean): the guys who voted the war credits in 1914, and who 
never ever said a single word of regret.

Once the German Left gets rid of the parcel they supposedly own in 
the collective guilt for Nazism it will be able to step ahead in the 
hard road they will have to traverse if they want to overcome their 
current inability to offer a serious alternative to the German 
bourgeoisie.  

Idealization of "national exceptionalisms" has worked, ever since 
1945, on a bipolar scheme where the USA were the extreme "plus" and 
Nazi Germany (that is, to put it brief, "Germans") were the extreme 
"minus".  It is important to stress that it was _never_ the Soviet 
Union, which at most was _equated with_ Nazi Germany (of course, only 
an imperialist nation could become the measuring rod for evil as well 
as for bliss).

But German "exceptionalism" is, in essence, the consequence of having 
been just the most perfect imperialist nation in the West _and_ a 
latecomer.  During a particular period of German history, this forced 
its own bourgeoisie to behave towards parts of its own population  in 
the way "normal" bourgeoisies in other imperialist countries behaved 
outside the limits of their own European possessions.  Most 
outrageous, probably, was that this bourgeoisie did not hesitate to 
turn against a part of itself when it was proved necessary:  the 
Jewish portion of the bourgeoisie (Ha'avarah agreements with Zionist 
Yishuv in Palestine, of course, excluded!)

Conversely, witness tolerant Dutch, harmless Belgians, in Indonesia 
or Africa.  Not to speak of other, more egregious, monuments to human 
criminality.  A single famine in India speaks more of British 
imperialism than the Brighton Pavilion.

But back to the polarity:  the day the USA produces one Rosa 
Luxemburg, we shall begin to speak.  In the meantime, the German Left 
should lay all the blame for the "guilt" on the German bourgeoisie, 
and encourage the German working class to say "We were victims, we 
were not 'guilty'!")


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Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
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