In the House of the Hanged Man
Stephan Courtois' The Black Book of Communism has generated a major debate in most countries, leading to acrimonious exchanges in the French National Assembly when Pierre Jospin unconvincingly tried to defend his Left Wing coalition against charges that his partners included apologists for mass...
| Published in: | Totalitarian movements and political religions |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2001
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Totalitarian movements and political religions
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| Further subjects: | B
Global Left-wing Criminality
B Moralisation Of 'social Science' B Stephan Courtois B Communism |
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| Summary: | Stephan Courtois' The Black Book of Communism has generated a major debate in most countries, leading to acrimonious exchanges in the French National Assembly when Pierre Jospin unconvincingly tried to defend his Left Wing coalition against charges that his partners included apologists for mass murder. In this article a leading Polish intellectual (with extensive experience of living under a Marxist dictatorship) looks at some of the merits/demerits of the first audit of global left-wing criminality, while arguing for a discriminating re-moralisation of 'social science' approaches to these 'subjects'. This article also suggests that before we get too excited about either global warming or the rights and wrongs of the World Trade Organisation, we might dwell a little more on ideology which murdered 100 million people. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-9647 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Totalitarian movements and political religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/714005435 |