Re: [Marxism] Communism, anti-German criticism and Israel

["Calvin Broadbent" <calvinbroadbent@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

How terribly avant-garde. What 'theoretical' use do you find as an
'activist' in critical theory and council communism? Are 'activists' who
don't have these philosopher's stones doomed to failure? What critique of
'value form' are you impressed by? How is every 'state' a 'fetish' form of
social relationship? Why are you against theocracy in Palestine (which
doesn't exist) but not against theocracy in Israel (which does exist)? Why
do you use German words to denote the Palestinian national community? Why do
you compare the lives of gay men and women in Palestine with the victims of
racist imperialist oppression? Perhaps its tough being gay in some American
prisons- does that mean we support the jailer? Does it not strike you that
American, Israeli, Pakistani, and probably British intelligence have been
heavily involved in arming, training, and directing elements of 'political
Islam' just as they have armed and financed 'political Judaism'? You remind
me of listmember Barney Katz.


'Now if there's a smile on my face,
it's only there tryin' to fool the public,
but when it comes down to foolin' you;
Now honey, that's quite a different subject'.

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
The Tears of a Clown



Ed THE CLOWN WROTE:

> The care and seriousness shown by the anti-Germans for
> aspects of the ultra-left tradition, such as the
> council communists, critical theory, and value form
> critique, is impressive to anyone dismayed by the
> theoretical impoverishment of much of the activist
> milieu.

> I find much of what the anti-Germans write concerning
> political Islam and its affinities with National
> Socialism to be enlightening.  So long as the
> "anti-imperialist" Left refuses to struggle  against
> theocratic fascism, people like Hitchens and the
> Anti-Germans will be serving a useful purpose.

> There's no question that daily life for people living
> in the occupied territories is a hell.  Just like
> there's no question that life for gay men and lesbian
> women in the Palestinian volksgemeinschaft is also a
> living hell.

> I am a communist and am for the abolition of all
> states, the state being a reified, fetish-form of
> social relationship just like capital and nation.

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