Re: [Marxism] My life as a Jew

[Ed George <edgeorge1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

As my late friend and comrade Ceri Evans wrote:

"You wish to deny that Israeli Jews form a nation (or, at least, a 
'proto-nation in decomposition'). What is more, you assert, in an 
abstract and ahistorical way, that Israeli-jews ARE NOT AND WILL NEVER 
BE A NATION - STATUS DECISIVELY DENIED. You imply that such a status can 
never exist, which I charge is an idealist anti-materialist position, 
since no-one can know the future (though we are allowed to best-guess 
and your and my best-guess is that the Zionists will not succeed in 
creating an Israeli-jewish nation in any practical sense).

"What I suspect this debate is really about is the fact that you are 
violently (and entirely correctly) opposed to the Zionist-inspired 
Israeli-jewish national project. Your problem, which may be unique (but 
probably isn't), is that you cannot pose an alternative national project 
at the level of the existing neo-apartheid STATE.

"This is another way of saying that there is no national solution for 
the Jewish nation under capitalism, since the Jewish question is by its 
very nature an international one. The European Jews certainly show all 
the characteristics of an authentic 'historical nation', with a 
remarkable radical and revolutionary history on which to base a 
progressive-revolutionary Jewish project of national liberation. This is 
only practically conceivable after socialist revolutions in several 
countries, which would allow a national-flowering or renaissance of the 
(European?) Jewish nation."

'Letter to a Comrade on the Jewish National Question', 
<http://www.angelfire.com/alt/ceri_evans/writings/jewish_question.htm>


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