The Nazi Heidegger and his French enablers

17Feb14

This is interesting, from Robert Zaretsky’s article on Heidegger’s “Black Notebooks”: Yet, it was the hand offered by the French philosopher Jean Beaufret that pulled Heidegger from the professional exile imposed by the Freiburg committee. Shortly after Jean-Paul Sartre, whose own thought was inspired by Heidegger’s work, gave his celebrated public talk “Existentialism is a […]

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Tags: existentialism, Faurisson affair, Holocaust negationism, Jean Beaufret, Martin Heidegger, Richard Wolin, Robert Faurisson, Robert Zaretsky

‘Anti-Imperialist’ Fascists in France

10Aug12

From Tendance Coates, with apologies for some added hyperlinks and gently corrected typos: Counterpunch’s friend Israël Adam Shamir does not only write about Dreyfus on Entre la Plume et l’Enclume (between the Pen and the Anvil). He, for example, wrote a vibrant defence of Gilad Atzmon on the same site earlier this year […]  calling him “un volcan vivant, un titan pourvu d’un sens de […]

Filed under: Fascists in the anti-globalization movement, France, Left-right convergence, Middle East, the poverty of anti-imperialism   |  1 Comment
Tags: Ahmed Moualek, Alain Soral, Alexander Cockburn, Anti-imperialism, Égalité & Réconciliation, Centre Zahra, Counterpunch, Dieudonné, Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, Entre la Plume et l’Enclume, France, Gilad Atzmon, Ginette Skandrani, holocaust denial, Hussein Triki, Israël Adam Shamir, Israel Shamir, La Banlieue S’exprime, Le Mouvement des damnés, María Poumier, new right, Nouvelle Droite, Parti antisioniste, Raba Serbout, Réseau Voltaire, Robert Faurisson, Roger Garauday, Samya Ayari, Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Syria, Yahia Gouasmi

Ultra-Sinister

08Feb10

New at Not Bored! Jean-Patrick Manchette: Gas Alert! (Contribution to the Critique of an Ultra-Sinister Ideology). On Faurisson and the ultra-gauche “Faurissonists”. Previous: Trop Loin; Ultra-leftism and softcore negationism; .

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Tags: Jean-Patrick Manchette, Robert Faurisson, ultra-gauche, ultra-left

Additional materials on Gilles Dauvé and negationism

07Jan10

, Additional materials on Gilles Dauvé, Jean Barrot, Guy Dauvé, La Vielle Taupe, Pierre Guillaume, Amadeo Bordiga, Didier Daeninckx, Not Bored and LibCom. Includes John Gray’s introduction to La Guerre Sociale‘s “La Question de l’Etat”, French wikipedia on the ultra-gauche and negationism, part of Pierre Vidal-Naquet’s A Paper Eichman, and further reading.

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Tags: Amadeo Bordiga, Didier Daeninckx, Faurisson affair, Gilles Dauve, Guy Dauvé, holocaust denial, Holocaust negationism, Holocaust revisionism, Jean Barrot, John Gray, La Guerre Sociale, La Vielle Taupe, Libcom, negationism, Not Bored, Paul Rassinier, Pierre Guillaume, Pierre Vidal-Naque, revisionism, Robert Faurisson, Serge Thion, ultra-gauche, ultra-left

Gilles Dauvé, Jean Barrot, Guy Dauvé, La Vielle Taupe, Pierre Guillaume, Amadeo Bordiga, Didier Daeninckx, Not Bored and LibCom

05Jan10

The US-based Situationist grouplet, Not Bored!, published a text entitled “1981: the French FBI against Coluche . . .” on December 25. The text is a translation by Not Bored’s Bill Brown of a French article by left-wing author Didier Daeninckx about Guy Dauvé, a right-wing French intelligence officer.* Guy Dauvé is the father of […]

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Tags: Amadeo Bordiga, anti-fascism, Didier Daeninckx, Faurisson affair, Gilles Dauve, Guy Dauvé, Guy Debord, holocaust denial, Holocaust negationism, Holocaust revisionism, Jean Barrot, La Vielle Taupe, left communism, Libcom, Noam Chomsky, Not Bored, paedophilia, Paul Rassinier, Pierre Guillaume, Robert Faurisson, Serge Quadruppani, Serge Thion, Situationism, ultra-left

Idiots, in France, San Francisco and Vienna

08May09

France: Following on from this, here is Andrew Coates: Dieudonné’s French ‘Anti-Zionist’ List: Worst Political Alliance in Europe? Few deny that ‘Anti-Zionism’ can be  a cover for racism. But rarely does it lead to this broad alliance. In France the mixed-race (Cameroon-French)  ’humourist’ Dieudonné has launched the Parti Anti-Sionist (Site). Its candidates are standing in the European […]

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Tags: 9/11 Truth, Alain Soral, anti-americanism, Anti-imperialism, anti-imperialist, anti-imperialists, anti-zionism, antisemitism, Austria, Dieudonné, Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, Fédération Chiite de France, France, Gretta Duisenberg, Hamas, indymedia, Judaism Against Zionism, Karl Pfeifer, May Day, Neturei Karta, Parti Anti-Sionist, Robert Faurisson, San Francisco, Schmiel Borreman, Sidi Yahi Gouasmi, Vienna