“With works like ‘Greedy’, ‘The Others’, ‘Information’ or ‘1999’, Amis digs through the obsessions and neuroses of late capitalist metropolitan dwellers,” it said in 2005. Amis “became a national celebrity, hunted by a tabloid press that followed his affairs as closely as he did his large advances and was not above reporting his outrageously expensive visits to New York dentists.”¹ In this sense it was also reported that the “bad boy” of English literature “admiringly on the autobiographies of bosom model Katie Price’.² More importantly, however, was his admiration for professional anti-Communist Robert Conquest, at whose suggestion he published the 2002 anti-Stalin book Koba the Terrible. The 20 Million and the Laughter”.
Amis was enthusiastic about the 1997 Black Book of Communism, whose “ghostly staging of communism at the heart of the great catastrophes of mankind was intended to discredit scientific socialism in the eyes of the masses” and he banged open the doors: “This work is a necessity. .. finally a book on the Stalinist crimes by a non-historian, a non-renegade, by a western writer of the post-war generation.”⁴
Amis complained that many still did not equate Stalin with Hitler and raged against him as well as against Lenin: “It has often been said that the Bolsheviks ruled as if they were waging a war against their own people. … That was also the meaning of the teaching. The Bolsheviks were internationalists, the Soviet Union was practically only the headquarters of communism while waiting for the world revolution. … As for the Russians themselves, Lenin was openly racist with his rigid dislike of this people. For him, they were fools and bunglers, ‘too soft’ to organize an efficient police state.”⁵
To describe the internationalism of the proletarian class struggle as a threat to one’s own people and to turn Lenin, who was admired by the masses, into an anti-Russian racist – that was a special flowering of anti-communism! To portray the establishment of a police state as the desired goal of the liberation struggle of the October Revolution of 1917 – that too was a particularly abstruse slander!
Amis continued his crude ideas and assessments of political world events to the end. He concluded from the abuse of religion by fascist forces: not all cultures are the same, “he always feels ‘morally superior’ to the murderous Islamists”. An obituary dedicated to him by the bourgeois press in appreciation of his anti-communism was therefore entitled “Moralically superior”.⁶
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