nference on Racism:Jewish Caucus Statement

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Sep 7 06:10:25 PDT 2001


Macdonald Stainsby wrote:


>Doug you quoted me saying the state and not the people, and then
>asked me where
>the people should go. Of course Canada is included...I am-
>poltically speaking-
>a North American.
>
>It's absolutely a dream world for all the Canadian nationalists to
>think about a
>revolution without American co-operation as well.... likewise, it is idiocy to
>imagine a revolutionary upsurge from the USA with Canada sitting there as some
>sort of capitalist outpost. To Canadians who talk about the Canadian
>revolution,
>I say it's time to get real. Canada must be abolished, so must America and
>Israel, Australia....etc etc... followed by something entirely new which
>addresses the injustices of the past - based on equal negotiations. It is
>dreamland to think otherwise- something as sinister in formation as Israel
>cannot possibly be reformed. It is cancer on the entire region and must be
>obliterated *politically* so as we can move forward. Perhaps two states are
>neccessary- but they will both be new and not racially or religiously based or
>they will fail.

This is strange. You concede that the U.S., Canada, and Australia should all go - France too? Japan? India? - but then return to the theme of Israel as being particularly malignant. That sort of thing looks bad. Maybe it's because you're a Leninist that you can't do the anti-statist routine very convincingly, so instead of calling for an end to nation-states in general, we get... what? I'm not sure. And how can the state go without having any consequences for the people involved?

Doug



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