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Re: [Marxism] My life as a Jew
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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