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THE CHOMSKY/RITTERSPORN AFFAIR- On Bourgeois Propagandists' Information war Against Progressive Movements, and the Utter Failure of "Anti-Authoritarian Socialism"

Table of Contents: (With original page numbers included)

Part I: THE RITTERSPORN AFFAIR: A WARNING EXAMPLE

1. Introduction to Rittersporn case: Some notes on terminology...................3

2. Maxim Leo and other masters of distortions.................................................7

3. Backround for the attack.............................................................13

4. Hidden motives behind propaganda.............................................15

Part II: LESSONS FROM THE CASE OF LA VIELLE TAUPE

4. What is "La Vielle Taupe", who were its ideological antedecendants?........................22

4.1 ?The Marlenites?...................................................22

4.2 ?Council Communism?: A Luxemburgite bastard form of ?socialism?....26

4.3 The slogans of ?Libertarian Socialists: From ?Death to the Party!? to ?Sieg Heil!?...................................................34

4.4. The most dangerous manifestation of revisionism: From ?objective?to ?subjective? support for extreme reaction.....................39

Part II: THE CHOMSKY AFFAIR: A CASE STUDY

1. On Noam Chomsky and his opponents...................................47

1.1 Who is Serge Thion?................................................57

1.2 Is there any evidence of Chomsky personally holding anti-Semitic views?.............................................................58

1.3 Chomsky?s ?association? with La Vielle Taupe, and other neo-Nazi groups; on spurious sources and omitted facts......................63

1.3.1 Chomsky and the Journal of Historical Review....................68

1.3.2 ?The Political Economy of Human Rights?, and other material by Chomsky supposedly published by Holocaust revisionists.........69

1.3.3 ?Quilt by association?..........................................71

1.3.4 Chomsky and Faurisson..........................................75

1.4 Chomsky?s alleged ?lies about Jewish history?......................88

Conclusions.............................................................99

List of quoted sources .................................................100

Preface

Ten years ago, the fascist, imperialist ?Soviet Union? shrudded off its last pretences of ?socialism?. For those who had defended this brutal tyranny up to ultra-revisionist Gorbachev, this was a tragedy, and they were of course unable to understand why it happened. One still hears pathethic excuses, such as ?socialism in the Soviet Union and elsewhere did not fail, it was temporarily defeated by imperialist aggression that surrounded it.?

Instead, true Marxist-Leninists had been aware for about thirty years that

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this was about to happen. It didn?t come to us as any surprise, and certainly it was not a setback for the international Communist movement. On the contrary- perhaps this dissillusioment will bring some honest but mistaken Comrades, who had been in the ?pro-Soviet? camp during the past years back to Marxism-Leninism, though it appears clear that this shall apparently not take place from the initiative of their party leadership; from their part, one can only speak of such extreme reluctancy to accept self-criticism for this shallow idiocy that dominated our movement for decades and virtually paralyzed it that it should really be called textbook example of subjectivism.

Yet, the genuine Marxist-Leninist movement was already in ruins, due of events in China and Albania, which forced us to make the same difficult decision that we had to make when Khrustchev denounced Stalin; ?Shall we stay quiet and accept this- or shall we wait and see, credit these people as ?Marxist-Leninists??

Many choosed the latter, and many parties today which consider themselves as ?anti-revisionist? still give their wholehearted support to Deng and Alia, using exactly the same rethoric as Khrustchevites, ?we must not be dogmatists?, ?they are just applying socialism in existing historical situation?, and on it goes.

This has caused the splinterism and apathy prevalent among, not only open revisionists, but also true Marxist-Leninists today. Never in our history have we been so confused and disunited.

For some time, responsible bourgeois scholars more interested in historical truth than political propaganda were allowed to research these issues and publish their research without restrictions. Whole new body of ?revisionist? Soviet-era research grew from nothing; the main advocates were Getty, Rittersporn, Thurston, Manning, Fitzpatrick, Kuromiya, Davies, Wheatcroft, and many others. This gave us whole new opportunity to re-evaluate our history, as the truth was now available (or, what can be considered as ?closest to the truth?; we must however remember that bourgeois scholars are bourgeois scholars and have their own agendas. We can read their research but must draw our own conclusions, from the prespective of the oppressed peoples of the world)

However, this did not last long.

During the recent years, we have begun to reorganize. Small but important advances have been made, and at the same time, the political conciousness of the masses worldwide has gorwn under the imperialist tyranny of the ?New World Order?.

The old passage from Manifesto, ?The spectre of Communism is haunting the world?, couldn?t be more true today, and we can already see how terrified imperialists and their henchmen are. At the same time that ?revisionist? research and publications have won more and more respect and consideration, there have been virulent propaganda attacks unlike any others before, such as the ?Black Book of Communism? (Stephane Courteois et all, Standford University Press, 1997) that surpasses the worst Cold War lies; now we are

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also accused of organized cannibalism, to point to one of the new labels on us! But these attacks are so ridiculous that no-one except the imperialist propagandists themselves takes them as face value; therefore, new attacks are needed, more sophisticated, which would kill the support from the masses with a blow. And such attacks have already been launched.

This pamphlet deals with two such cases; that of Gabor Rittersporn, who was among the first ones to bring the correct death tolls from gulag (600 000- 800 000, NOT 20 million) to daylight, and that of professor Noam Chomsky, respected academician sometimes called ?the most influential societal critic alive?.

Another subject discussed here, is the active support, as it turned out, to fascism, of adherents of several bastard forms of ?socialism?. This issue has not been properly, as I feel, dealt among us after the discovery of famous blocks of anti-Soviet oppositionists on the occasion of the murder of S.M Kirov. As it was clear for all who were not blinded by Gestapo?s propaganda, conspiracies linked directly to Western- even Axis- imperialism existed. However we have incorrectly limited our understanding to only few manifestations of such capitulation. We have not seen that the same capitulation lives on and will eat our newly-emerging movement alive if we do not learn to detest it.

Extreme manifestations of revisionism can, indeed- contrary to what some, most often (ex)-Khrustchvites claim- take the form of the direct and brutal manifestation of capitalist dictatorship- fascism.