Roger Garaudy

Roger Garaudy , born the July 17th 1913 with Marseilles in France, is an academic, politician, Philosophe and writer Négationniste French.

Biography

Academic, he became member of the French Communist party in 1933, and was prisoner of 1940 with 1942 in the camps Vichystes of North Africa (camp of Djelfa, Algérie). Become member of the Central committee of the Party (1945), he was elected appointed communist of the Tarn (1945-1951), then of the the Seine (1956-1958), and senator de Paris (1959-1962). It at the time of its delegation that it meets and binds friendship with the Abbé Pierre, also is appointed with leaving the war.

Director of the Center of Marxist studies, it was during years the official philosopher of the Party, author in particular of a thesis on Freedom at the university of Moscow, under Stalin before being excluded about it in June 1970, time when it was in Marxist dissidence, near of the ideas of May 68. Protesting in its youth, it becomes catholic then before converting in 1982 with Islam, while his/her father was atheistic, and his catholic enthusiastic maternal grandmother.

He is the author of about fifty books, treating particularly history and great figures of Communism and religion.

He taught at the university of Clermont-Ferrand, where he attracted himself the hatred of Michel Foucault, which continued it its sarcastic remarks and pushed it with the resignation, as Didier Eribon in the biography of Foucault tells it.

Roger Garaudy created his own foundation in Spain with Cordoue: foundation Roger Garaudy. It is sheltered in the Tower of Calahorra. Inside one discovers several characters who recall the history of Islam with Cordoue at the end of the Middle Ages.

Whereas it is claimed that he lives in an Arab country or in Spain, Roger Garaudy stated to live in Parisian suburbs during the emission Second glance , diffused on January 28th on Radio-Canada, which questioned it on the friendship which bound it to late the Abbé Pierre.

In 2002 it receives the Prix Kadhafi of the human rights of the Libya.

Judgment for the Myths founders of the Israeli policy

Roger Garaudy is author of work entitled myths founders of policy Israeli , which was published in 1995 by the editions the Old crone which was used it only for its own subscribers, then republished in 1996. This work, claiming Antisionisme, is composed of three principal chapters: “Theological myths”, “Myths of the 20th century” and “the political use of the myth” -].

It supports the thesis negationnist of a plot Zionist, which would have invented Shoah to justify the expansionism Israeli, thus denies the genocide made by the Nazis against the Jews, and rejects the theses that the historians admitted since of the decades. It thus adopts the fundamental theses of the negationnism: Hitler would not have given the order of the extermination; the word extermination would be a false translation and indicates in fact the expulsion of the Jews; the Jews were decimated by the Typhus and the crematory ones were used to burn the corpses of the victims of the disease; there would be no reliable witnesses; the crimes of the Allies would be worse than those of the Nazis; the gas chambers would not exist; tortures would have been inflicted to the prisoners Nazis to make them acknowledge the genocide; theory of the Jewish plot, alleged absence of refutation of the theses of the negationnism, material impossibilities related on the Zyklon B and the operation of the crematory ones. The radical antisionism of Roger Garaudy had led it, since 1982, to place on the same plan Sionisme and Nazisme.

The “Garaudy business” is initially revealed by Duck connected in January 1996, followed by some national daily newspapers, involving against him, the deposit of several complaints with Constitution of civil part for dispute of Crime against humanity, racial public slandering and provocation with the racial hate by associations of resistant, deportees and defense organizations of the human rights. Then, the scandal is médiatisé in April 1996, when Roger Garaudy and his lawyer Jacques Vergès, announce the support of the Abbé Pierre, which is excluded from the Licra and is constrained to move away from the media life. Converted with the Islam since the beginning of the years 1980, Roger Garaudy had also received during the lawsuit the support of intellectuals of Arab and Moslem countries.

Roger Garaudy was condemned, on February 27th, 1998 for dispute of crimes against humanity, racial slandering. In its waited, the court stresses that “far from limiting itself to a critic of the Zionism (…) Roger Garaudy devoted himself to a virulent and systematic dispute crimes against the humanity made against the Jewish community”. Rejecting the argument according to which its book would be “antisionist” and not “anti-semite”, the magistrates explain that the author, “although it is defended some, present in the form of a political criticism (…) from Israel what is not that a calling into question of the whole of the Jews”. This judgment was confirmed in call on December 16th, 1998, Garaudy moreover being condemned for provocation to the racial hate. Its appeals was rejected by the court of criminal appeal on September 12th, 2000. Its recourse in front of the European Court of the human rights, founded on the violation of article 10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention of the Human rights, article 6 (right to a fair trial) of Convention, article 4 of the Protocol No 7 (right not to be judged or punished twice) and articles 9 (freedom of thought, of conscience and religion) and 14 (prohibition of discrimination) of Convention, was declared inadmissible by the Court, the judges European declaring:

“As the national jurisdictions showed it, that the applicant endorsed the theses negationnists and called into question systematically the crimes against the humanity made by the Nazis towards the Jewish community. deliver, which has as a whole, a character marked negationnist, goes against the fundamental values of Convention, namely justice and peace. (…) No element makes it possible to establish that Mr. Garaudy did not profit from a fair trial. ”

Political mandates

; Deputy of the Tarn
  • 10/21/1945 - 6/10/1946: Tarn - Communist
  • 6/2/1946 - 11/27/1946: Tarn - Communist
  • 11/10/1946 - 4/17/1951: Tarn - Communist

; Deputy of the Seine

  • 1/2/1956 - 12/8/1958: The Seine - Communist

; Senator de Paris

  • 1959-1963

Works

He wrote about fifty works, of which:
  • French sources of the scientific socialism (1948)
  • the manifieste of the Communist party: revolution in the history of the socialist thought (1952)
  • Theory materialist of knowledge (1953)
  • Mishaps of the anti Marxism. Did misfortunes of Mr. Ponty (1956)
  • Marxist Humanism (1957)
  • Questions in Jean-Paul Sartre, precedees of an open leerte (1960)
  • God die , PUF, Paris (1962)
  • What Marxist morals? (1963)
  • Karl Marx , Seghers, Paris (1965)
  • Marxism of the 20th century , the Palatine one, Paris-Geneva, 1966
  • the Chinese Problem (1967)
  • Lénine , PUF, Paris (1968)
  • For a realism of the XXe century. Study on Fernand Leger (1968)
  • For a French model of Socialism (1968)
  • Large turning of socialism , Gallimard, Paris (1969)
  • Marxist and Christians face to face , in collaboration with Q. Lauer, Arthaud, Paris, 1969
  • All the truth (1970)
  • Reconquest of the hope , Grasset, Paris (1971)
  • the Alternative , Robert Laffont, Paris, 1972
  • Word of man (1975)
  • For a dialog of civilizations Denoël (1977)
  • Call to alive the , Editions of the Threshold, Paris (1979)
  • the Business of Israel (approximately 1980)
  • Call to alive the (1980)
  • Promise of Islam (1981)
  • For the advent of the woman , Albin Michel, Paris (1981)
  • Biography of the 20th century , Tougui, Paris, 1985
  • Grave-diggers. A new call to alive the , the Archipelago, Paris, 1992
  • My turn of the century as a recluse, memories , Robert Laffont, Paris (1989)
  • Integrisms (1990)
  • Speakers of the French revolution (1991)
  • With Against - Night (1992)
  • do we Need God? , introduction of the Abbot Pierre, Desclée de Brouwer, Paris (1993)
  • Remember: short history of the Soviet Union , the Time of cherries, Puppet (1994)
  • Towards a war of religion? Discusses century , Desclée de Brouwer, Paris (1995)
  • Islam and the integrism , the Time of cherries, Pantin (1996)
  • the Myths founders of the Israeli policy , Librairie of the knowledge, Paris (1996)
  • Rise and fall of Islam , Alphabeta & chama, Paris (1996)
  • My witnesses , Editions has Against-Night, Paris, 1997
  • the Lawsuit of freedom , in collaboration with J. Rods, Vent broad, Paris, 1998
  • the Future, directions for use, Vent the broad one, Paris, 1998 http://abbc.net/garaudy/french/avenir/index.htm
  • Islam in Occident, Cordoue capital of the spirit, Harmattan, Paris (2000)
  • Western Terrorism , Al-Qalam, Luxembourg, (2004)

  • What anti-Americanism?

References

An opinion on its theses: “Analysis of the relays available to the negationnists”, maintenance of [[Pierre Vidal-Naquet] with François Bonnet and Nicolas Weill, in Le Monde dated May 4th, 1996]

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