Here's a few URL's with the Bordigists viewpoints re: attempts to link them to Holocaust "Revisionism" and their polemics in response. http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/3303/Inglese/intcomm.htm Finkelkraut cites the Bordigist pamphlet, "Auschwitz or the Great Alibi," which is published by the Parti Communiste International. The polemic responding to the charge is just below, with the elegant title, "The Monster Is Capitalism!"(Reminded me in it's directness of the title of an album by folkie Barbara Dane called, "I Hate The Capitalist System!" on Paredon Records.Did her husband, Irwin Silber suggest that one?..) http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/3303/monster.htm http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/3303/Inglese/archives/demagogy.htm
Tried a search at the Nizkor site which is a huge compendium of documentation on the Holocaust which rebuts the IHR, CODOH, AARGH!, and Michael A. Hoffman II, sites which are all "revisionist". http://www.nizkor.org/fast-track.shtm The Int'l. Bureau for a Revolutionary Party (the Bordigists) site mentions Workers Voice as a sympathizing party or publication. Went trawling for them, no luck yet, but found this review from Communist Voice, of the last Alan Sokal book,"Fashionable Nonsense."CV is a paper put out by ex-members of the pro-Albania/Hoxha M-L Party. (CPUSA-ML?, Carroll filled me in a few weeks ago when I incorrectly accused Chip of having had a connection to them and btw, to, I stand corrected on Chip's adhesion to the Hofstadter, Bell et. al. line on the pops. http://www.flash.net/~comvoice/20cSokalShort.html
Both the IBRP and Communist Voice sites have some interesting stuff on Kosovo and postmodernism along with the usual ultra-left slams and digs at other groupscules and tendencies.
Since I don't yet have a scanner, and I'm just too tired to do what I do for a living (data entry) I'll forgo the direct cites or text from Finkelkraut, which are from a 1953 issue of "Socialism or Barbarism" the Castoriadis/Lefort journal. I'm sure most lbo'ers know of or have read them directly. If not, two handy sources 1) "Existential Marxism in France," Mark Poster, Princeton Univ. Press. 2) A recent review in TNR of Castoriadis by Paul Berman. (BTW, Berman also wrote a piece on the ex-Maoist May '68'er Andre Glucksmann for Mother Jones during the Euromissiles debate which forshadowed positions taken after the fall of the Wall by Euroleft intellectuals). For background on Finkelkraut the intro to the book cites, "Vilna On The Seine: Jewish Intellectuals in France Since 1968," by Judith Friedlander, Yale U. Press.
Lastly, the new Lingua Franca has an Adam Shatz review of the, "Black Book Of Communism." I saw it today. Will wait till the library gets it, my comment for now: Are certain books sold by the pound? This tome is over 1000 pages. I guess when certain French intellectuals had to wait till Solzhenitsyn to shed their Stalinaphilia their pens have in overdrive ever since!
Michael Pugliese