A review of Enzo Traverso, Critique of Modern Barbarism: Essays on Fascism, Anti-semitism and the Use of History, IIRE (2019), £17. Can Marxism help us to understand the Holocaust? Marxism is a body of theoretical and experiential understanding that tries… Continue Reading
In its first three pages, Donny Gluckstein’s review “German Marxism and the Holocaust” in issue 159 of International Socialism gives a sensitive and perceptive overview of many—but not all—of the arguments I put forward in my essay on the cause… Continue Reading
A review of Horst Haenisch, Faschismus und der Holocaust: Versuch einer Erklärung (Edition Aurora, 2017), €8.50 The Holocaust is unusual in gaining more prominence as more time has passed since it occurred. Two reasons for this stand out. Few expected… Continue Reading
A review of Dan Plesch, Human Rights After Hitler: The Lost History of Prosecuting Axis War Crimes (Georgetown University Press, 2017), £23. The international tribunal in Nuremberg brought some of the leading Nazis responsible for the Holocaust before military courts.… Continue Reading