November 23, 1997

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

"In this communiqué, the Webteam of AAARGH, a well known revisionist Website based in virtual Paris, announces a new dimension of its site. A new section is devoted to the opponents of revisionism.

Of course, it may be argued that these people have every possibility to express themselves on the Net - whereas revisionists, altogether, run less than a dozen sites among a million. But the point is the value of comparison.

Linking is one thing. But hosting your enemy is much more mind-opening. We want readers to compare freely. Our principle is that a free mind has the resource to choose or to abstain.

We have no fear (of) a discussion or {an intellectual} confrontation, and we stand assured that the general public will benefit from this possibility of comparing arguments on the same site. We develop a sophisticated system of inner cross-linking that provides documentary help for the visitors.

We feel that most of our opponents would fall into one of three main categories.

First, (there are) those who speak about revisionism without ever reaching for its basic arguments. They have a political or ideological agenda for which the rejection of revisionism appears as a corner-stone.

As expected these people fight each other bitterly. Right now, in Paris, there are sort of "popular tribunals" sentencing people for their supposed (passing) acquaintances with alleged revisionists. A creeping Stalinist political correctness is achieving the destruction of what little of the left was left by this epoch.

We call them "Talk Too Much".

Others, much less numerous, have one way or the other gone into the historical arguments. Some of them have done some homework. We take their views very seriously.

But they have not, so far, succeeded in persuading us. We have seen in their works quite a number of flaws, of mistakes and errors, which we have described in a detailed manner. We intend to display all the texts we are criticising in order for the reader to have both views open for examination.

But we still have to call them "Could Do Better".

And then we have those who would love to replay the thirties and be the heroes who will, at last, repulse fascism. They call to vigilance, ask for denunciations, prepare blacklists, and behave in general like a Thought Police Unit.

Because they entertain the paranoid belief that fascism is everywhere around us, they spread a kind of intellectual terror that has its full impact on intellectuals, most of whom are quite prepared to submit to the powers that be. A surprising proportion of the so-called intellectuals nurture the inner dream of being a policeman (or woman) and we have some near-pathological border cases.

We call them "Vigilantes".

This applies now to the French section of the site, but it will be expanded to other languages as well, beginning with English.

Of course, it would not be possible to reproduce all the available literature which, one way or the other, is devoted to attack revisionism. Our intention is nevertheless to provide a fairly large range of representative works.

Thought for the Day:

"Freedom's just another word . . . for saying 6-million didn't die"

(Title of a 10-page article by Vancouver Sun columnist Paula Brook in the Canadian literary magazine *Saturday Night*, November 1997 )