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3 november: boekpresentatie 'Folterfabriek Buchenwald'

24 September 2024
By: IIRE

‘De kapo is verantwoordelijk voor de werkprestatie van de gevangenen, hij voorkomt sabotage en zorgt ervoor dat alles ordelijk en schoon is. Als soldaat zal het u aanspreken. Wanneer we niet meer tevreden zijn, is hij kapo af en slaapt hij weer bij zijn mannen. Hij weet dat hij de eerste nacht door hen zal worden doodgeslagen,’ aldus Heinrich Himmler, leider van de SS, in 1944 tot zijn generaals.

Daniel Bensaïd (1997): Stalinism against communism

11 June 2024
Work at White Sea Canal (Belomorkanal) in the Soviet Union (from october 16, 1931 until august 30, 1933). Most of the work was done manually by forced labour.

This text was originally published in 1997 as a supplement to Rouge. Writing in response to The Black Book of Communism, Bensaïd discusses the Stalinist counter-revolution.i

Daniel Bensaïd (2008): Myths and legends of domination

20 March 2024

In 1964 Herbert Marcuse asked in One-Dimensional Man whether it was still possible to ‘break the vicious circle of domination’.i In other words, he questioned whether revolution was still possible in developed capitalist countries, where ‘the pure form of domination’ had taken shape. The working class, now linked to the system of needs ‘but not to its negation’,ii seemed bound to lose all its subversive capacity in the ‘affluent society’.

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