Couch Liberalism and the Guilty Past

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What is remarkable about the manufacture of myths in the twentieth century is that it takes place under the noses of living witnesses of the actual events and, in fact, cannot dispense with their collaboration.

Everyone is familiar with the Communist method of transforming the past; the formula for the production of historical fictions is no longer any more secret than for the atom bomb. Through a series of public confessions a new collective Character is created, retrospectively responsible for the way things happened. The Trotskyite Assassin or the Titoist Agent Of Imperialism who emerges from the judicial vaudeville changes events after they have taken place. But to accomplish this, former builders of t...