Doug Henwood wrote:
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> LeoCasey at aol.com wrote, long ago:
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> If Zionism is racism, so is every nationalism.
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> Yup. Etienne Balibar: "Racism is not an 'expression' of nationalism,
> but a supplement of nationalism or more precisely a supplement
> internal to nationalism, always in excess of it, but always
> indispensable to its constitution and yet always still insufficient
> to achieve its project, just as nationalism is both indispensable and
> always insufficient to achieve the formation of the nation or the
> project of a 'nationalization' of society."
This is pompous bullshit. Racism is the ideology which justifies the oppression of particular groups, always emerging after and in explanation of that objective oppression. This is the only _useful_ defintion of racism. The English language allows probably 400 or 500 more, all of which would be accurate verbal definitions and all of which could be crouched in one or another complex epistemological argument. They would have only one thing in common: intentionally or unintentionally they would be radically in the service of oppression.
Carrol