Re: [Marxism] antisemitism workshop audio now online

["Ian Pace" <ian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "spencer s" <spencerpdx@xxxxxxxxx>
> The IMC's are awash with antisemitic posts about the
> jewish neo-cons, zionist conpiracies in the sudan, how
> israel controls the US, etc. Usually they are what
> Adorno called "secondary antisemitism" in 1965 --
> classic antisemitic narratives which use Israel
> instead of "the Jews", but repeat the same narrative
> structure.
I'm doing a bit of research into Adorno's Zionism at the moment, but haven't 
come across that (clearly extremely relevant) term of his before. Which 1965 
text is it to be found in?

Adorno's paradigms are very dodgy in this context - one could equally use 
them (as the neo-cons do) to argue that anti-capitalism or anti-Americanism 
are forms of 'secondary antisemitism' as well.

Whilst a big admirer of Adorno, and deeply influenced by his thinking on 
consciousness, aesthetic 'commitment' and the culture industry, I feel 
strongly that his ontological view of anti-semitism and Auschwitz, 
overriding many elements of his pre-war Marxism, renders quite a bit of his 
thought appropriable by reactionary interests. In terms of what Finkelstein 
refers to as the mystification of the Holocaust (placing it beyond rational 
explanation, flying in the face of historians of all persuasions who have 
understood the urgent necessity *of* trying to understand how and why it 
happened), Adorno is a major offender.

Solidarity,
Ian 



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