[lbo-talk] Benny Morris

[Dennis Perrin]

> What that shows is that Benny Morris is at heart a rather old
> fashion Labor Zionist.  Years ago, it was not uncommon
> for Labor Zionists, at least privately,  to justify their treatment of
> the
> Palestinians, in language similar to Morris's.  Israel was
> said to represent a a more advanced social formation
> (i.e. a socialist democracy) which therefore had the
> right to to use whatever means necessary for prevailing
> over the less advanced , reactionary social formations like the
> feudal monarchies of the Arab states.


> Jim F.

How in essence is this different from what the Bolshies did to peasants and
workers who didn't agree with them? Weren't they guided by Superior Theory
and Logic (as well as having Dame History on the arm), something that the
backward, reactionary peasant class could only comprehend at gunpoint? Or
are certain types of political elitism *truly* in the interests of humanity
as a whole?

DP