Electoral Dilemmas Re: Color of Anarchism

Frank Lusardi flusardi at panix.com
Sun Jan 5 10:51:00 PST 2003



>> "Seperate but equal," the Supreme Court called it in
>> Plessy v. Ferguson (1897). What's neo about that? In a
>> less hypocritical vein, versions of this were espoused
>> by Booker T. Washington and (later) the Nation of
>> Islam (Elijah Muhammed & Malcom X's Black Muslims). jks

"Separate but equal" was also common among early Zionists, as Norman Finkelstein has noted: "Thus, Goldhagen suggests that any German who believed that Jews constituted a 'religion, nation, political group, or race' and thus were an 'alien body within Germany', or that Jews engaged in 'underhanded' or 'parasitic' business activities fell on the eliminationist spectrum gliding to murder. The identical image of Jews as a 'nation' or 'race' that was 'alien' to and 'parasitical' on European society was also, however, a staple of Zionist ideology. Indeed, as one Zionist historian copiously documents, 'the Jewish self-criticism so widespread among the German Zionist intelligentsia often seemed dangerously similar to the plaints of the German anti-Semites.'"



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