[lbo-talk] Benny Morris responds

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Mon Jan 26 20:56:09 PST 2004


On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Doug Henwood wrote:


> How can one really be a leftist and advocate an ethnically based state?

Just about every leftist in Central and Eastern Europe does that. Your friend Slavoj, for example, is from a state that defines citizenship based on the jus sanguinis.

I think the question is more how can you be a leftist and argue that ethnic cleansing has its good side. And the answer is you can't. Afaik, Morris is no longer considered a leftist by anyone on the left. His rejection has been more absolute than Hitchens'.

Michael



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