L'avenir d'une négation : réflexion sur la question du génocide

Holocaust denial is not only propagated by neo-Nazi groups; it is also found in extreme-left circles. It has found expression in the activities of the publishing house La Vieille Taupe. The extreme left was the first to publish the revisionist writings of Robert Faurisson. Examines the origins, main ideas, motifs, and psychology of the leftists' denial of the Holocaust, contending that it stems from their rigid and simplistic worldview according to which there is only one meaningful social conflict - that between the capitalist and working classes. They contend that the Nazis, as representatives of the former, were no worse than the democracies or the corrupt Soviet regime, that World War II was an ordinary imperialist war, and that the democracies invented the Holocaust myth in order to blacken their former competitor (Germany) and to conceal their own crimes. The Holocaust does not accord with the leftist scheme of world affairs, thus they deny it. Another tendency of the left is to appropriate the language and the imagery of the Holocaust for other victims of worldwide "imperialism", e.g. Palestinians. Includes bibliographical references. 180 pages ; 21 cm.