Re: [Marxism] When and How Was the Jewish People Invented?

["Ambrose Andrews" <ambrose-bulk@xxxxxxxx>]

2008/10/10 Joaquin Bustelo <jbustelo@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> The stuff about Morocco and New York is a red herring. In the capitalist
> epoch, what defines an OPPRESSED people above all is NOT any of the things
> that Marvin lists, common language, common territory, common bracelets and
> religious icons, but a *common oppression.*
>

Common oppression can create a common identity and that may have some
features in
common with national oppression creating an oppressed national identity.

That doesn't necessarily make it national oppression.

It makes it....   something with political consequences and potentials
(which may have
features in common with the consequences and potentials of national
oppression) and
which can be described conceretely.

  -AA.


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