>On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Doug Henwood wrote:
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>> How can one really be a leftist and advocate an ethnically based state?
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>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 don't know how much SZ approves of this - I refined my dislike of nationalism by reading Tarrying With the Negative and watching him comment on Laibach in that wonderful film.
>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'.
Obviously he's no leftist now, but he certainly personalizes the contradiction of leftish politics and nationalism.
Doug