[lbo-talk] Benny Morris

[Travis Fast]

On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 13:31, Dennis Perrin wrote:
> > 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
> 

Interesting how a a thread that began with a discussion of Benny
Morris's unapologetic Zionist nationalism has turned into a forum for
everyone to purge and pillage the left of and for its past sins.

I wonder if I started with an observation about Stalin's paranoia and
insularity if we would pull the thread all the way to the Bush white
house in the space of three posts.

In any case it would be an equally absurd equivocation.

Travis 


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