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Louis, if you check the link I provided you will see on the title of the book saying: "A SHAMEFUL ACT". The Author of the book Taner Akçam refers to Atatürk to have said that. The review is two years old. The only reason I posted it to the list is just to bring to the attention of the list members Taner Akçam's lucid book on the question. 2010/1/10 Louis Proyect <[email protected]> > If life were only so black and white. I am rereading some chapters > in E.H. Carr's v. 3 on the "Eastern questions" in order to respond > to a very long article by Loren Goldner basically describing > Ataturk as the bad seed of all the reactionary (his word, not > mine) "anti-imperialism" of the 20th century, from Saddam Hussein > to Hugo Chavez. Goldner is a self-described Bordigist, I should add. > > Carr mentions that Enver Pasha was very friendly to the infant > Soviet republic, so much so that Zinoviev used to refer to him as > comrade. Meanwhile, Pasha was responsible more than anybody for > the slaughter of the Armenians. > > More later... > > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: [email protected] > Set your options at: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/dgn.gcmn%40googlemail.com > -- Dogan Göcmen (http://dogangocmen.wordpress.com/) Author of The Adam Smith Problem: Reconciling Human Nature and Society in The Theory of Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations, I. B. Tauris, London&New York 2007 ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
