On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Bhaskar Sunkara <[email protected]>wrote:
> "The project to found Israel as a settler state was and still is “a crime”, > said comrade Conrad. But that crime has resulted in the coming into being > of > an Israeli Jewish, or Hebrew, nation and a working class solution must > recognise this reality. While comrade Conrad could envisage the necessity > of > expelling recent Israeli settlers from the West Bank as part of an agreed > democratic settlement, it was out of the question to talk about uprooting > the Israeli Jewish people as a whole. The Israeli Jewish nation, like any > other, has the right to self-determination, so long as it is not exercised > at the expense of the oppression of other peoples. > > Did the Afrikaaner community have the right of self-determination? Lenin advocated this slogan for *oppressed* nations. It is a means to convince the oppressed that the working class movement of the oppressor nation supports their struggle, even if it includes separation. It is not a feel good slogan. If the Israeli Jews are offered self determination after the coming socialist revolution, what form will that take? Won't it be a Jewish state in Palestine - where the Palestinians would want their state? But the Jews already have such a state, so why do they need a revolution? This would do nothing to break away the Jewish working class from Zionism. On the contrary, it is an unprincipled concession to it, one that the Palestinians could never support. Any leftists advocating it would earn for themselves distrust. ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
