Zionism vs. Black Nationalism

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Charles Brown wrote:
>
>>CB: This is the issue discussed earlier on this thread. The thing 
>>is to undo the racist _social relations_.  The categories are not 
>>the main thing.  Undoing the categories is misplaced emphasis.  In 
>>fact, it may be that the categories must be retained and repeated 
>>in order to most effectively undo the actual social relations.
>>
>>((((((((((
>>Capitalism isn't natural - it's a social construction. Money isn't
>>natural - it too is a social construction. But they're pretty
>>powerful little fuckers, aren't they?
>>(((((((((
>>
>>CB: Yes, but it may be important to keep repeating the category 
>>"capitalism" in order to destroy its social relation.
>
>Well, yes, the point is to destroy the social relation. But 
>Leninism, and the Soviet model, tried to destroy capitalism by 
>creating a new form of class society - a ruling class whose power 
>depended on their position in the state hierarchy, not their 
>ownership of capital, but a ruling class nonetheless. So maybe 
>there's a parallel here: creating a new class society is not a good 
>way to destroy the old class society, and putting new spins on 
>racial categories may not be the best way to end racism.
>
>Doug

"The best way" to end racism must be for racial categories to undo 
themselves without any white leftist ever having to mention race, 
much less fretting over if there are enough black faces in his 
organization.  :->

Yoshie