NP - Poo-pooing PoMo, futility for the feeble minded

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Am 27.10.2018 um 11:29 schrieb Mark Kohut:

> And, unlike some PoMo books, I say, it is anchored in the real (sic)
> reality of the Demjanjik trial--the defense argued, of course, that this
> Cleveland autoworker
> was NOT the young Ukranian peasant who gleefully-- happily- tortured some
> Jews unspeakably as he herded all he could into death. Identity and reality *in
> real life. *The riff where Roth
> writes of him as if his youthful, manly self was FULFILLED, in a
> perverted/inverted Aristotelian Ethics or Maslow way, so to speak, is so
> over the top
> yet .....one gets it. A Byron the Bulb-like sublimity on evil, maybe.

As for real Realpolitik:

"Following the conviction and sentencing of the death camp guard John 
Demjanjuk to five years of jail for his role as an accessory to the 
murder of 27,900 people at the Sobibór death camp, Tiahnybok traveled to 
Germany and met up with Demjanjuk’s lawyer, Ulrich Busch, presenting the 
death camp guard as a hero, a victim of persecution, who is “fighting 
for truth” (“Oleh Tiahnybok iz dvodennym vizytom vidvidav Nimechynu,” 
2010)."

Per-Anders Rudling, "The Return of the Ukrainian Far Right: The Case of 
VO Svoboda," in Ruth Wodak and John E. Richardson (eds.) Analyzing 
Fascist Discourse: European Fascism in Talk and Text (London and New 
York: Routledge, 2013), 228-255.

This is, of course, the same Oleh Tiahnybok that was courted by the 
German Minister for Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier, by the 
German Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European 
Parliament Elmar Brok, by various politicians of the Green Party of 
Germany as well as by John McCain and Victoria Nuland on the Maidan in 
2013/2014.

A freedom fighter, in other words.