Franz Borkenau

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Franz Borkenau was a German writer, at one time an official historian of the Comintern, and later a prominent anti-communist.[1]

Borkenau was close to the Neu Beginnen group in the German anti-fascist underground in the 1930s.[2] He argued for a vanguardist approach to underground organisation, arguing that a leninist style of organisational discipline and centralism simply made sense faced with the conditions of Nazi Germany.[3]


Notes

  1. Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta, 2000, p.71.
  2. William, David Jones, The lost debate: German socialist intellectuals and totalitarianism, University of Illinois Press, 1999, p.77.
  3. William, David Jones, The lost debate: German socialist intellectuals and totalitarianism, University of Illinois Press, 1999, p.78.