Zionism vs. Black Nationalism

Lawrence lawrence at krubner.com
Wed Aug 8 01:22:58 PDT 2001



> 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

Is your hope then to have a society where there is no ruling class? No elites? No heirarchy? Or is your aim merely to make society ever more democratic, the elites ever more buffered by the checks and balances of popular will?



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