Communists Praise "Eternal Treblinka"
Marxist publications are praising Charles Patterson's internationally acclaimed book "Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust." A review in Political Affairs, a monthly magazine published by the Communist Party, USA, describes the book as "wonderful" and "great," while more recently People's Weekly World (direct descendent of the Communist Daily Worker) calls it "shattering."
(PRWEB) June 7, 2005 -- Two Communist publications cite Charles Patterson's
"Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust" (ISBN:
1-930051-99-9) as a powerful, groundbreaking book.
A review by Norman
Markowitz appeared in Political Affairs (March 2005), a Marxist monthly magazine
of ideology, politics, and culture, published by the Communist Party, USA:
"Charles Patterson's 'Eternal Treblinka' is a wonderful book about
terrible subjects, a work that resonates and extends the best of liberal
humanism and broad left activism to the exploitation, oppression and
extermination of non-human species."
Markowitz continues, "It is a great
book that will both expose readers to a world of valuable information that is
not available to them in other sources, and help them, if they choose to act
upon what they read, become better human beings in their relationship to both
humans and animals."
To read the complete review visit http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/view/839
In an
article--"Marxism without meat?"--in the People's Weekly World (June 2, 2005), a
direct descendent of the Communist Daily Worker, Gene Gordon states that the
foundation of any future communist society must be peace, plenty, love and
kindness.
"Certainly there can be no cruelty. And yet I wonder whether a
most monstrous cruelty — rampant in this ugly age — will hang on to mar our
future. I mean the incarceration, torture and slaughter of billions upon
billions of animals."
He continues: "Paul and Linda McCartney wrote, 'If
slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian.' Author Charles
Patterson agrees because through those walls, he says, we would gaze horrified
into a place that looks much like a Nazi death chamber."
"In his
shattering book 'Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust,'
Patterson draws an astonishing analogy between a slaughterhouse for Jews and a
slaughterhouse for animals. In both we find the annihilation of 'life unworthy
of life,' the wholesale depersonalized day-after-day butchery and the lying
prattle of 'humane killing.'"
Gordon believes that since a communist
society cannot be attained without ethical, compassionate people leading the
way, Marxists should become vegetarians.
"Come, let us be soybean
socialists. Must we have slaughterhouses under communism? No, let us have a
cruelty-free communism--Marxism without meat!"
To read the complete
article visit http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/7170/1/272
Patterson's
book (now in seven languages) has received praise from around the
world:
"The moral challenge posed by Eternal Treblinka turns it into a
must for anyone who seeks to delve into the universal lesson of the Holocaust."
--Maariv (Israeli newspaper)
"You must read this carefully documented
book." --La Stampa (Italian national newspaper)
"Important and
timely...written with great sensitivity and compassion...I hope that Eternal
Treblinka will be widely read." --Martyrdom and Resistance (Holocaust
publication), New York
"Charles Patterson's book will go a long way
towards righting the terrible wrongs that human beings, throughout history, have
perpetrated on non-human animals. I urge you to read it and think deeply about
its important message." --Dr. Jane Goodall, United Kingdom
"Necessary
reading matter...very thought-provoking." --Süddeutsche Zeitung,
Germany
"Eternal Treblinka is an eye-opening, thought-provoking book that
I highly recommend." --The Gantseh Megillah, Montreal,
Canada
"Patterson's book sheds light on the violence perpetuated every
day against animals and humans alike so that we might one day put an end to it."
--Moment ("America's Premier Independent Jewish Magazine")
"A thorough
and thought-provoking book" --Ha'aretz (Israeli newspaper)
"Compelling,
controversial, iconoclastic...strongly recommended...a unique contribution."
--Midwest Book Review, USA
"Eternal Treblinka disturbs us because
(inevitably though tactfully) it holds up to us, its readers, a clear mirror to
look at ourselves anew...Kafka would have applauded Eternal Treblinka. It grips
like a thriller." --The Freethinker, United Kingdom
"The book that breaks
all taboos. The book that fires up controversies all over the world."
--Prijatelji Zivotinja, Zagreb, Croatia
Foreign
Translations:
Italy:
Un'eterna Treblinka
Editori Riuniti, Rome,
2003
Poland:
Wieczna Treblinka
“Vega!POL” Publishing House, Opole,
2003
Czech Republic:
Vecna Treblinka
Publishing House Prah, Prague,
2003
Germany:
"Für die Tiere ist jeden Tag
Treblinka"
Zweitausendeins Versand Dienst GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, 2004
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/2/prweb206054.htm
Croatia:
Vjecna
Treblinka
Genesis, Zagreb, 2005
Israel:
Hebrew edition
(forthcoming)
Pardes, Haifa, 2005
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/5/prweb235481.htm
Charles
Patterson is also the author of Anti-Semitism: The Road to the Holocaust and
Beyond, The Civil Rights Movement, Marian Anderson (winner of the Carter G.
Woodson Book Award), From Buchenwald to Carnegie Hall (co-author with Holocaust
survivor Mr. Marian Filar), and other books.
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