Re: [Marxism] The German Left and Israel

["S. Artesian" <sartesian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And liberalism is a philosophy of the abstract that capitulates before the 
world of the concrete.

We are not talking about the anti-Zionism, which in reality isn't very 
anti-Zionists of Nazis, neo-Nazis, wannabee Nazis, etc. The roots of the 
anti-zionism of the oppressed is in their oppression-- in those specific 
social relations of oppressed and oppressor-- just as anti-apartheidism was 
rooted in the opposition to the oppression in South Africa.

The roots of the anti-zionism of those supporting the oppressed is concrete 
opposition to oppression.

All the stuff about tradition of critique etc. is an abstraction that only 
reinforces the status quo when used to obscure the real basis for 
anti-Zionism, and condemn as "morally equivalent" the hatred of the 
oppressed for the oppressor with the historical practice and function of 
anti-Semitism.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Angelus Novus" <fuerdenkommunismus@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <sartesian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Marxism] The German Left and Israel



> Communism in the tradition of the critique of political economy implies 
> fundamental opposition to reified forms of social mediation such as value, 
> the state, nations, race, and gender.
>
> That necessarily means refusing the moralistic distinction between "good" 
> states and "bad" ones.  "Anti-Zionism" as an ideology merely displaces the 
> reactionary Proudhonist distinction between morally correct "productive" 
> capital and evil "financial" capital onto the geopolitical stage.


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