[lbo-talk] Eagleton on fascism

[Dennis Redmond]

> <http://www.newstatesman.com/site.php3?newTemplate=NSReview_Bshop&newDisplayURN=300000082709>
>
> The Anatomy of Fascism
> Robert O Paxton Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 336pp, £20
> ISBN 0713997206
> Reviewed by Terry Eagleton
>
> Stalin slaughtered
> Ukrainian peasants because they were Jews. If recent scholarship is
> to be credited, both did so without much popular disapproval, as with
> the crimes of other fascist states. "Most citizens of fascist
> regimes," Paxton comments, "accepted things as they were."

Wait a second -- is this Stalin-killed-the-Jews nonsense Paxton's
argument, which Eagleton is merely quoting? Or is this a typo -- two
sentences which stumbled into each other? I'm having a hard time believing
Eagleton actually wrote something this bone-headed.

-- DRR