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The mistake is to assume that this a generalization about imperialism. It is no such thing - only a reference to a specific, and very peculiar, instance: Israel. The generalization concerns ideology and politics: Where is the center of Zionism - in Israel of the United States? I say it is in the U.S., and that U.S.-Israel form a political and ideological identity. Israel is the United States in the Middle East. Regardless of the road to the defeat of imperialism, Israel will never be defeated, "the Zionist regime will never be on its last legs" a la South Africa, so long as the above is true. To make the above not true, Zionism must be defeated in the USA, in its homeland, where it reflects the settler state legacy of the USA, and therefore everything retrograde and troglodyte about the USA in particular. That settler state legacy is actually in an important contradiction with the objective requirements for the continuation of US imperialism today, and the agony of the US-Israeli connection is a particular externalization and objectification of that contradiction. As this is a contradiction embedded in the very foundation of the USA, it is doubtful that US imperialism can overcome it, or break its special connection with Israel. -Matt On 6/4/2010 1:50 PM, Matthew Russo wrote: > The bottom line: Israel will never be defeated in the Middle East so long as > it is not defeated here in the U.S.A. The neocons are the intellectual and > ideological core of the American Radical Right. I think the opposite is the case, not just in the Middle East but on a world scale. The idea that imperialism needs to be defeated in the imperialist countries first is a statement that imperialism will never be defeated, unless the last century or so is some weirdo bizarre aberration, that will be turned on its head. The ONLY hope for humanity is in the victory of the global South against the North. Joaqu?n ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
