Sylabus of Errors, or OKO.press and Batory Foundation on Neomarksism
In addition to our main article, I would like to clearly point out errors, weaknesses and manipulations that have been permitted in the Batory Foundation study and in the article on the OKO.press portal. The subject concerns the phenomenon of neo-Marxism and alleged conspiracy explanation created by the "popularist right".
In the list below, we have made mistakes and inconsistencies that I have not discussed in the main article that responds to an attack from the portal. OKO.press and Batory Foundation. The volume of the text and the multitude of shortcomings in the substance forced me to divide the full answer into 2 parts. This list is simply a kind of supplement.
LINK: Answer to allegations of OKO.press and Batory Foundation
LINK: An article on the OKO.press portal
LINK: Batory Foundation Report
- Subject
Quote: "There is no word in the White Paper about Spinelli, which does not hinder the popularizers of neo-marksism to proclaim that the European Union's aim is to make a national state, sometimes called the United States of Europe".
Answer: Appeals to Altiero Spinelli and ‘Ventotene Manifesto’ are only in the introduction and conclusion of the White Paper on the Future of Europe, which is the authoritative paper European Commission of 2017. However, this does not change the fact that authors, including themselves The Presidentfor any reason, they do not mention to any another father of European integration (except for a short quote Robert Schuman, but that the biased choice to justify the thought of building 1 national state). In any case, the main patron of the task under which they sign is Communist Altiero Spinelli.
- Extremeism is simply a typical example
Quote: "It was the request for cultural Marxism to defend Norwegian utmost right-wing terrorist Anders Breivik, who made 2 terrorist attacks on July 22, 2011: the seat of the Norwegian Prime Minister and the Norwegian Labour organization youth camp participants. 77 people died and 33 were injured."
Answer: Or the fact that crazy Criminal He referred to the concept of cultural Marxism, it follows that everything that is associated with it is considered a manifestation of conspiracy explanation and criminogenic thinking?
- Criticism of the Marxism improvement strategy (click here to see)
Quote: "For example, anti-culture (neomarksism), dating back to 1993 due to the entry into force of the Treaty of Maastricht EU (!), has historical links with: russian Marxism from the early 20th century, the Communist organization of the russian Union, but besides with the Polish communist opposition from the 1980s. (presented as a movement cooperating with communists!)’.
Answer: The point of "Anticulture" is simply a summary of the scheme, which indicates that already in 1993 the ideological treaty was able to push it so far, due to the fact that it was based on the Spinelli Plan, i.e. the Marxist programme. Besides, we besides describe what happened until 2019 (then an interactive pattern of Marxism improvement was created). Of course there are links to russian Marxism, due to the fact that Altiero Spinelli was a associate Italian Communist Party under the aegis Komintern, and its later environment consisted mostly of communists forming their own ideological center in the West, already separated from Soviet Union.
Many members Spinelli Groups It belongs to the Italian Democratic Party, which evolved at sources from the Italian Communist Party. In addition, it should be mentioned that European federalism involves people who were erstwhile so-called. The fresh LeftEven if there were enthusiasts Mao Zedong or Che Guevary. Greens is their political representation created in the 1970s (many green politicians co-create the federalist movement). A full separate thread to discuss is Eurocommunism developing since the 1970s, mainly in Spain and Italy.
Regarding the anti-communist opposition in Poland, this is mentioned in this context Adam Michnik and Jack Kuronia, thus manifest trockists from the Walter Circle. In addition, a circular table, i.e. a communist arrangement with a regular opposition, was discussed. What's the problem?
- Unknown to Marxism
Quote: "This is simply a reversal of the real situation: those who in the 1960s and later fought against communism in Poland are accused of being neo-Marxists – only because, as young people, they utilized Western cultural trends to protest russian communism".
Answer: The author consciously or unconsciously denies the anticipation of being a proponent of Marxism and an opponent of russian communism at the same time, without any logical noise. full New Left, whose influence reached Poland from the US and Western Europe, is anti-Soviet Marxism, but inactive radical, referring to the popular slogan from this period to "Marx, Mao and MarcusIt’s okay. ” It is so about Charles Marx, Chinese Communist Mao Zedong and the ideologist of Herbert Marcuse Frankfurt School. These “cultural activities” mentioned in the quote are not news from the West, but exports New Marxism. That you were in the anti-communist opposition (against PZPR, alleged concrete), does not mean that you fought communism as such.
- Obvious as something controversial
Quote: "In the description of a phenomenon called 'Gender 1975', it can be read that sex ideology, which harms people by tragic experimenting with sex changes (described in the first passage of the text), is the authoritative ideology of the European Union".
Answer: Ideology gender mainstreaming is the authoritative policy strategy for associate States since adoption Treaty of Amsterdam 1997 (Articles 2 and 3). The United Nations (UN) supported this programme as early as 1995.
- The Russian propaganda claim
Quote: "This explanation is utilized as a political instrument in Europe present by any Eurosceptic politicians, the Russian community related to the ideology of Alexander Dugin and respective think thanks, besides associated with Russia".
Answer: What is evident from the fact that cultural Marxism is mentioned among others by American representatives Alt-right and Eurosceptics from different European countries? This presumption is intended to disqualify the full thesis at erstwhile under the pretext of the alleged radicality or extremeness of any people who consider it true. Russian examples of course are an effort to propose that we are dealing with propaganda here Vladimir Putin. Russia is inactive a country ruled by communists, but already representing a different current, or, in fact, a phase of the revolution, after gaining power and stabilising it. This does not change the fact that they are inactive ideological opponents of the widely understood non-left side of the barricade. Anyway, erstwhile we compose about Marxism and we talk about it at all, We criticise both the Bolshevik Revolution and the full russian heritage. We besides do not spare modern Russia, i.e. we have no illusions about it. So you can ask what Putin did to specified agents. In general, in our publications, we analyse the actions of various communists, whether European or Russian or Chinese.
- Labeling
Quote: "In 2017, an analysis of the Manifesto of Ventotene was created on behalf of the utmost right-wing Polish MEP Dobromir Sośnier, whose task was to show the impact of this paper on the current form of the European Union".
Answer: designation libertarianin, the typical Confederations The most “left-to-left” against the background of another politicians of this group, behind the utmost right-winger, is simply a manifestation of ideological doctrine and fitting without thinking.
- Hiding the full truth
Quote: "Another proof of this is the creation of Spinelli reflection group in the European Parliament in 2010. It intended to advance European integration, and 3 Polish MEPs joined it."
Answer: The European Parliament Altiero Spinelli cardboard imageAnd the main building is named after him. Spinelle’s thought is referred to even David Sassoli, president of the European Parliament and statements by the president of the European Commission Ursuli von der Leyen about the creation of the United States of Europe quotes the authoritative Eurofederalist fanpaedia.
Spinelli Group brings together around 100 MEPs, including crucial individuals specified as: Guy Verhofstadt, president of the Liberal faction whether she was co-chair of the European Green organization Monica Frassoni. Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, French president Francois Hollande and Chancellor Merkel folded flowers on Spinelli's grave on Ventotene Island and identified its task as a origin of European integration (2016).
Jean-Claude Juncker, erstwhile president of the European Commission, spoke in 200th birthday of Charles Marx And he praised him as a philosopher, which cannot be associated with the crimes of communism. In the same year in Trewira besides stood Charles Marx monument, notabene funded by Chinese communists.
- Selective Facts
Quote: "The European Defence Community was besides not established by Spinelle (to be part of the federalisation of the Union). For neo-Marxism theorists, the most crucial thing is that Spinelli was a Communist and, at the same time, a founder of the European Union, and he advocated strengthening EU cooperation at the expense of full national sovereignty of the associate States."
Answer: It's that European Defence Community has not yet been introduced, does not mean that an effort to push this concept has been abandoned. This is confirmed by key European politicians, for example German Chancellor Angela Merkel “the readiness of national states to give sovereignty”, French president EmmanuelMacrona about “holding a actual European army” or erstwhile The president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker to make a "new approach on the European Defence Community to establish a European army".
- Denying Your Claims
Quote: "In the explanation of neo-Marxism, this information about Spinelli's activities, which do not fit into the main thesis, is omitted – for example, the fact that the Treaty paper establishing the European Union, written in the 1980s on the basis of the alleged Spinelle Plan and adopted by the EP, was rejected by the associate States and never entered into force (although it gave emergence to further negotiations between the associate States and consequently to the adoption of the Single European Act)".
Answer: Rejection Spinelli's plan It is not ignored by our environment or by another publicists on the subject in 1984. In the quoted quote, the author denies herself, first suggesting that the task was not yet adopted and that it does not have any meaning, and then admitting that its elements were introduced small steps (It is the Single European Act in 1986, the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 and the Lisbon Treaty in 2007).
Rainer Zybura on behalf of the Hammer task squad for Marxism.
Substantial support: Jakub Zgierski and others.
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