It’s really pathetic that people would sooner read a Wikipedia article about the text than the (very short) text itself. Anyone who has read The Great Alibi knows that this is a laughable interpretation
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@AAPD57596
There definitely is something to critique in that article but I've never seen an informed or good faith response. The MIA commentary basically condemns the article for even attempting to explain the Holocaust and not just saying it was an unprecedented horror and leaving it there
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@RotaryCordChaos
Marx himself applies, in a different context, the central insight of 'The Great Alibi'. People are happy to accept it in relation to revolutionary France, but not in relation to the Holocaust - which is itself a fitting testimony to the unique power of the 'alibi'
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@AAPD57596
Have you read the preface to it from when it was republished during the Klaus Barbie trials?
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"Axelrad also claims that the majority of Jews at the time was petit-bourgeois, which mirrors far right rhetoric around ‘Jewish capitalism’. Other Marxists have attempted to trace Nazi anti-Semitism and 20th..."
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