Roger Garaudy

Roger Garaudy ( born July 17, 1913 in Marseille, † 13 June, 2012 Chennevières -sur -Marne, Val- de -Marne ) was a French writer, philosopher and former communist. After he had turned to Christianity in the sixties and seventies, 1982, he started to Islam. It was later accused to represent revisionist and anti-Semitic positions.

Life

Garaudy, university professor of art history and philosophy, was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (PCF ) and for them from 1945 to 1951 and from 1956 to 1958 Member of the National Assembly. Since 1962, he headed the Centre d' Études et de Recherches Marxistes. As chief ideologue of his party, he developed reform communist ideas. In 1965, he became a critic of the orthodox party line and later joined for a dialogue with Christianity. His criticism of the invasion of Warsaw Pact troops in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1968 led to a break with the PCF, which excluded him in 1970.

In the seventies, Garaudy sat for a dialogue of world religions under socialist perspective for the future a. With the support of left-leaning alternative and ecological circles, he tried in 1981 to run for the French presidential election, but could not muster the necessary 500 signatures of public officials.

After his conversion to Islam, he was increasingly becoming a critic of Israel. In addition, he turned against the policy of the United States, which he accused of lobbying for the State of Israel. In 1986 he received the King Faisal Prize for services to Islam.

For Holocaust denial, racial defamation and incitement to racial hatred in his book published in 1996 The founding myths of Israeli policy Garaudy was convicted by a French court in 1998. The judgment was in 2003 by the European Court of Human Rights confirms (ECHR 65831 / 01, dated 24 June 2003).

Garaudy was awarded in 2002, among other authors, endowed with $ 250,000, " Al- Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights" of the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Works

  • Karl Marx ( 1964)
  • Dieu est mort ( God is Dead, 1965)
  • Marxisme you XXème siècle ( Marxism in the 20th century, 1966)
  • Le grand tournant du Socialisme ( The great turning point of socialism, 1969)
  • Parole d' homme ( the word of men, 1975)
  • Appel aux vivants (Call to the living, 1979)
  • Les Orateurs de la Révolution française (1991 )
  • A Contre - Nuit (1992 )
  • Avon - nous besoin de Dieu? ( Do we need God?, 1993)
  • Promesses de l' Islam ( Islam promise ), SKD Bavaria, Munich, 1994, ISBN 3-926575-08-5
  • Les Mythes fondateurs de la politique israélienne ( The founding myths of Israeli politics, 1996)
  • Le occidental Terrorism (2004)
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