Zionism vs. Black Nationalism

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Art McGee wrote:
>
>>Help me out here,
>>
>>Even though I understand how wrong and evil it was for
>>Jewish people to occupy and get the land they did in the way
>>they did, I sometimes feel conflicted about the CONCEPT of
>>having a place where you can create your own society, based
>>on whatever the fuck you want, and keep everyone else the
>>fuck out. I call that SELF-DETERMINATION.
>
>Then, a few posts later, I read that you forwarded the National 
>Review article on the anti-socialist effects of racialized divisions 
>to BRC-NEWS, with this header:
>
>>[Moderator's Note: Normally, articles from right-wing
>>publications like National Review are not something we
>>distribute via BRC-NEWS. However, in this case, we're
>>making an exception. Here, we have on record, a die-hard
>>conservative admitting that racial divisions are what keep
>>the United States from becoming a Socialist society. The
>>man is actually giving Marxists their props, even if in
>>a back-handed and perverted way.--Art]
>
>Help me out here. Are you arguing for ethnic purity as a "socialist" 
>strategy? Or criticizing the use of racial/ethnic division to 
>fragment the working class?
>
>Doug

I don't speak for Art, but it seems to me that it would diminish 
racial division if whites accepted blacks' right to 
self-determination, just as the division between Jews and 
Palestinians (and other Arabs) would diminish if Jews accepted 
Palestinians' right to self-determination.  Oppression that creates 
the oppressed group = negation.  Recognition of the oppressed's right 
to self-determination = negation of negation.  In a dialectical 
movement, it takes negation of negation to reach a higher synthesis.

Yoshie