Zionism vs. Black Nationalism

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Aug 2 11:06:04 PDT 2001


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>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.

Hmm, but if a racial category was invented in the process of oppression, then how is accepting that category negating it? Looks to me more like a perverse reinforcement. The negation would be to reject racial categorization altogether.

Doug



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