Understanding the Nazi Genocide: Marxism After Auschwitz (IIRE (International Institute for Research and Education))
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- Synopsis
- '...this is a genuinely original contribution to our understanding. Students of the Holocaust sometimes worry that too much analysis may immunise us against its unbelievable horror. Traverso avoids that risk with great sensitivity and imagination.' Socialist Review In Understanding the Nazi Genocide Enzo Traverso sustains a dialogue with writings on the Shoah from Hannah Arendt to Daniel Goldhagen by drawing on the critical and heretical Marxism of Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School, which grasped late capitalism’s pent-up capacity for destructive upheavals exacerbated by bureaucratic organisation and advanced technology.After Auschwitz, Hiroshima and the gulag, the old warning slogan - socialism or barbarism - formulated by European Marxists at the beginning of twentieth century needs to be seriously ‘revised’. The choice we face today is no longer between the progress of civilisation and a fall into ancient savagery, but between socialism conceived as a new civilisation and the destruction of humankind. For Traverso the Warsaw Ghetto uprising is an image of what should impel us to rebel: not a sense of inevitable victory, but an ethical imperative.
- Copyright:
- 2018
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- ISBN-13:
- 9781849640251
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780745313535
- Publisher:
- Pluto Press
- Date of Addition:
- 06/04/19
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- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
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- No
- Categories:
- History, Military, Nonfiction, Politics and Government
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