On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 12:30:31 -0600 Michael Pugliese
<michael.098762001 at gmail.com> writes:
> The Founding Myths of Modern Israel
> Roger Garaudy
>
http://www.noontidepress.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=24&products_i
d=42
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> Garaudy was a major PCF intellectual in the 60's and 70's. Don't
> know why he left the French Communist Party. Was one of the leading
> attackers of Sartre.
He was expelled from the Party around 1970 or so. He had been one of the leading critics of the Party's handling of the events of May 1968. Before his expulsion he was the Party's "house philosopher" (as opposed to someone like Louis Althusser), its leading pointman in Marxist-Christian dialog, and had even been a member of the Party's political bureau. He came from a Protestant background, and I believe while still in the Party, he had converted to Roman Catholicism. His later conversion to Islam did not occur until around 1982, long after he had been kicked out of the Party.
Yah, while in the Party he was a leading attacker of Sartre, but was also a critic of Althusser (a fellow Party member) as well.
> Book is a "Holocaust Revisionist, " ahem, "classic, " along with,
> "Did Six Million Really Die? by Butz. (actually Hilberg estimates 5.1
> million Jews killed in the Holocaust) Not surprised that Noontide
> Press is selling this.The press founded by neo-fascist Willis Carto.
> Material on this book by Garaudy in Alain Finkielkraut, "The
> Future of a Negation, " Univ. of Nebraska Press.
> Much more material, mostly from European left intellectuals like
> Trotskyist Enzo Traverso, Spanish Communist Jorge Semprun (who was
> imprisoned in WWII in one of the Nazi camps, yrs. later involved with
> writing the script of Costa-Gavras, "Z, ") and Pierre Vidal-Naquet.
> The entire text of , "Assasins of Memory, " might have material on
> Garaudy too. (Attn: Lance Murdoch, the text is not kind to a source
> of
> yours on Kampuchea and the virtues of the Khmer Rouge, Serge Thion,
> part of the La Vielle Taupe, ultra-left Holocaust "Revisionists")
> http://www.anti-rev.org/textes/VidalNaquet92b/
> http://www.anti-rev.org/textes/
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> Michael Pugliese
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