Zionism vs. Black Nationalism

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Aug 2 09:04:49 PDT 2001


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



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