FREE SPEECH for Professor Jorg Baberowski too ! Smeared as " Nazi " by Stalinist Left

Germany: Growing support for campaign at Bremen University against right-wing professor Jörg Baberowski

 

As a democratic socialist ( independent ) I see the FREE SPEECH and FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization being attacked on the activist Left and the activist RIGHT.

             I don’t want Professor Baberowski to try to censor leftist – Trotskyist or Stalinist – views condemning his opinions. But nor do I want this accomplished and respected scholar over-vilified as a ” Nazi ” or a ” fascist ” – terms of character assassination over-used on the Left.

           I think the World Socialist Web Site also has a credibility problem . It acts very much like a David North personality cult . Sad that dedicated ” socialists ” should remind me of those daffy ” Clears ” in the Church of Scientology.

               A Wiki -note on the Socialist Equality Party for what it is worth
 
[ Die Welt notes that "Baberowski is recognised as Germany's leading expert on Stalinism. That has made him into a hate figure among far-left groups."[5] Times Higher Education and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung have noted that Baberowski has been the victim of harassment and stalking on the Internet by extremist far-left students who belong to the youth group of the far-left Socialist Equality Party; this campaign happened in response to Baberowski's invitation of British historian Robert Service, who has written critically about Trotsky, as a guest lecturer at his institute.[6][7] According to the Annual Report on the Protection of the Constitution published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the Socialist Equality Party is an extremist organisation that is under observation by German authorities and listed as such in the chapter on far-left extremism.]