I am also curious about what Pl had to say... .....best rich
At 05:44 PM 10/30/98 -0500, you wrote:
>> Would it be churlish to point out that Marcuse is an unreliable
>> authority, since he was a paid agent both of the FBI and of the OSS,
>> forerunner of the CIA?
>> More vile is his boasting to Horkheimer that he has managed to spike the
>> academic career of Henryk Grossmann
>> Marcuse advised the OSS on how to manage denazification and govern
>> Western Germany.
>> One article in Progressive Labour, was justifiably titled 'Marcuse: Cop-
>> out or Cop?' (vol 6 no 6, Feb 1969).
>> Jim heartfield
>
>yeah, yeah, yeah, been there, don't that...an *anonoymously* published
>article in PL is reliable?
>
>HM answered the communists who used his US intelligence service work to
>taint him with CIA affiliations:
>
>'If critics reproach me for that, it only shows the complete ignorance
>of these people, who seem to have forgotten that the war then was a
>war against fascism, and that, consequently, I haven't the slightest
>reason for being ashamed of having assisted in it.' (_Revolution or
>Reform?_, p. 59)
>
>and
>
>'My main task was to identify groups in Germany with which one could
>work towards reconstruction after the war; and to identify groups
>which were to be taken to task as nazis. There was a major
>de-Nazification programme at the time. Based on exact research,
>reports, newspaper reading and whatever, lists were made up of
>those Nazis who were supposed to assume responsibility for their
>activity. Later it was said that I was a CIA agent. Which is
>ridiculous, since the OSS wasn't even allowed near the CIA. They
>fought each other like enemies.'
>("Conversation with Habermas and Others: Theory & Politics," _Telos_
>38, pp. 130-131.)
>
>according to Henry Pachter, HM:
>
>'bombarded Secretary of War Stimson with plans for a post-war Germany
>that would give democratic socialism a chance...' (_The Legacy of the
>German Intellectuals_, p.36)
>
>and H. Stuart Hughes wrote of HM:
>
>'it has seemed deliciously incongruous that at the end of the 1940s,
>with an official purge of real or suspected leftists in full swing,
>the State Deparment's leading authority on Central Europe should
>have been a revolutionary socialist who hated the cold war and all its
>works.' (The Sea Change, p. 175)
>
>accidentally deleted comment about HM giving into pressure to compare
>Nazi Germany and Soviet Union, but his use of the term 'totalitarian
>administration' and his critique of bureaucratic socialism in _Soviet
>Marxism_ hardly suggests such...he also rejects 'convergence' thesis
>regarding Soviet Union and modern capitalist states, although he
>seem similarities between state capitalism and state socialism...
>
>as for spiking Grossman's career, that may make HM a cad and heel
>in this instance, but hardly constitutes grounds for the other
>allegations made against him...Michael Hoover
>
Rich Gibson
Program Coordinator of Social Studies
Wayne State University
College of Education
Detroit MI 48202
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