Sort of like Glucksmann?
--- On Thu, 9/11/08, Lenin's Tomb <leninstombblog at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> I have loads of material about BHL in my upcoming book,
> *The Liberal Defense
> of Murder*. He's authentic ruling class, loaded to the
> hilt, has several
> mansions, and is deeply imbricated with the PS-wing of the
> French political
> class. He spent his early years as a marxist of some
> stripe under the
> influence of Louis Althusser, before deciding to become an
> 'antitotalitarian' when much of the French left was
> freaking out about the
> Union of the Left and praising Alexander Solzhenitsyn
> beyond all
> proportion. He cozied up to the Mitterrand administration
> in the early
> 1980s, helping to form SOS Racisme, a vacuous anti-racist
> organisation with
> strong ties to the Socialist Party. He has always defended
> US imperialism,
> and co-signed an appeal on behalf of the Contras. He has
> had some years of
> involvement in Afghan politics, including an intriguing
> romance of sorts
> with Ahmed Shah Massoud of the Northern Alliance, and was
> sent by Paris as
> an envoy to the country in 2002. He was also one of
> Izetbegovic's main PR
> agents in France. His main brief today is to be a
> figurehead for the
> 'anti-anti-American' tendency in France, berating
> critics of Israel as
> antisemitic, championing a front against the 'new
> totalitarianism' in the
> form of Political Islam, and helping to drive the Socialist
> Party further to
> the right.
>
> What more do you want to know?
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