Helmut-Harry Loewen

Univ. of Winnipeg (Ret.) ~ Humanities Institute at Simon Fraser Univ. (Assoc.) ~ Dialectical & Historical Materialism ~ Anti-Imperialist Marxism ~ Antifascism

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"There are no Nazis in Ukraine — it has a Jewish president," insist many of the loudest "Stand with Ukraine" advocates. So, why did Zelenskyy publicly pay tribute to Nazi collaborator Andriy Melnyk? Why are some Armed Forces of Ukraine units named after Nazi battalions (Nachtigall, Roland, Luftwaffe) and use Nazi symbols as official insignia? Why does the Ukrainian state continue to honor figures associated with ethnic violence against Polish civilians? These are some of the questions I discuss with Professor Glenn Diesen.

Historian Marta Havryshko (Clark University): Zelensky Pays Tribute to Nazi Leaders.
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Nicholas Potter and the "New Authoritarian Left" – The New Old Delusion of ‘Anti-Deutsche’ Ideology ~ In this episode we discuss Nicholas Potter's new book.* Its central thesis is that an authoritarian left endangers democracy in Germany. In the tradition of the reactionary McCarthyist right, Potter propagates the old "Red Scare" against communism, claiming that the US protects free, democratic peoples from subjugation by authoritarian communist powers.

Effective July 1, Potter will be joining the right-wing Berlin-based Axel Springer media conglomerate as a senior reporter for Die Welt, Politico, and Business Insider.

* Die neue autoritäre Linke. Eine akute Bedrohung für die demokratische Gesellschaft. dtv, München 2026

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“It appears that the New School was an intelligence cut-out partially established as a means of maintaining contact with the Soviet Opposition under the cover its role as “progressive” education institution.

“The implication is that the Opposition was itself, in part, a British intelligence operation. Furthermore, given that members of the New School were chiefly responsible for laundering Trotsky’s reputation, philosophies and false histories to the West, it follows that Trotskyism was, from the 1920s, a British psyop. Moreover, we can conclude that many the “communists” who had a formative influence on Western socialism and “turned against” the Soviet Union from the 1930s through the Cold War, were British intelligence assets first and foremost, whose communism was primarily a means of serving their activities in that capacity. Max Eastman personifies the type.

“Finally, I would be remiss not to highlight the ongoing dominant influence of both Trotskyism and the Cultural Marxism of the New School and the Congress for Cultural Freedom.

“Today, the successor to the CCF is the New Left and its various organs, such as The New Left Review and its offshoot Verso Books, whose intellectually lineage has far more to do with the cultural sophistries of the British intelligence cut-out Frankfurt School than genuine Marxism.”

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Also see on “A different Narrative: Investigating the British Empire” by Dr Phil Bevin: “Yet more evidence of Trotsky's collusion with British intelligence” (May 24) and “Stalin versus Trotsky: the battle for Lenin’s legacy” (May 17).

H/t @ProfHall1955 ("Just how much influence did the Western intelligence services exert on the development of the liberalised left loosely assembled around Trotskyism? Wacky conspiracy theory? No, documented reality." Professor Steve Hall)

@GabrielRockhill @theleftchapter

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Fotos: Gadamer und Heidegger, Todtnauberg, ca. 1923 — Deutsche Professoren bekannten sich öffentlich zu Adolf Hitler – auch Martin Heidegger, Leipzig, 1933.

“Heideggers Naziagitation war (…) die politische Aktualisierung jener Eigentlichkeitsfigur, die den Vereinzelten in eine höhere »Schickung« einspannt. In den posthum veröffentlichten »Schwarzen Heften« tritt später offen hervor, was in der Rektoratsrede latent vorhanden war: Antisemitismus, Ressentiment, Kulturkritik, Weltverfallsdiagnose – ein Antimodernismus, der die Moderne nicht kritisiert, um ihre Herrschaftsverhältnisse zu begreifen, sondern um hinter sie zurückzufallen. Heidegger wollte nicht Faschist sein wie ein Parteifunktionär; er wollte der Denker der »geschichtlichen Sendung« selbst werden. Seine Philosophie war nicht Opfer einer Gleichschaltung, sie brachte ihr eigenes Verlängerungskabel mit.”

~ Über das Sein in Todtnauberg: Am 26. Mai jährt sich der Todestag des Philosophen Martin Heidegger. Von Barbara Eder, jW, 23.05.2026.
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Marta Havryshko is a U.S.-based author and researcher focused on Ukrainian nationalism, the far right, and the Russo-Ukrainian War. She holds a PhD in History from the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.

Photo: A demonstrator in Munich, Germany, wears patches of the former Azov Battalion after holding a speech about the Azovstal defenders of Mariupol in March 2023. The patch features a Black Sun and a modified version of the Wolfsangel, used historically by the Waffen-SS. (Sachelle Babbar/ZUMA Press Wire)

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