holocaust

Dit essay verscheen in verschillende versies. Een eerste versie werd gepubliceerd in het Duits in 1979 in het Frankfurtse studentenblad Diskus, en in het Engels in New German Critique in 1980. Deze eerste versie is een reflectie op de receptie in Duitsland (en in het bijzonder binnen Duits “nieuw links”), vanaf 1978, van de miniserie Holocaust, gerealiseerd door Marvin Chomsky. Postone doet hier een krachtige oproep…

A book review from Black Flag #216 1999.

The “libertarian communist” website libcom.org recently affixed a note to the infamous article “Auschwitz or the Great Alibi“: First in the form of an anonymous preface, then once the author of this preface, “Mike Harman”, was revealed to be the brains behind the operation in the comment section, he added some impotent invective. We take this opportunity to respond with some comments ourself.

From the Nazis' concentration camps to the streets of London today, lesbians and gay men have been a target of fascist attacks. Sam Lowry…

Some reflections on the capitalist roots of the Holocaust.

Anonymously published introduction on the now-defunct John Gray website, this is written as an introduction to La Guerre Sociale's 'The Question of the State', discussing the history of the article and its relation to the Faurisson affair where some French ultra-left groups including La Guerre Sociale supported Robert Faurisson's negationism (holocaust revisionism).

Martin Axelrad's reply to criticisms of his essay "Auschwitz or the Great Alibi". Extract from Prolétaire No. 437, July-August-Sept. 1996.

Chomsky is sometimes accused of being a Holocaust denier. This is little more than a right-wing…

A detailed account of the treatment of homosexuals by the Nazi party.

The personal account of Stanislaw Smajzner of his time spent in the Extermination camp at Sobibor…

This is the full report made by the Auschwitz escapees Rudolph Vrba and Albert Wetzler. This is their account of what they witnessed during their…