[lbo-talk] Nationalism & Internationalism Re: Benny Morris responds

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jan 28 09:20:40 PST 2004


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>Nationalisms of settler colonialists and anti-colonial nationalisms
>of the colonized are not the same thing and do not occupy the same
>place in leftist politics.

No they're not, but it's fascinating how anti-colonial nationalism can devolve into bourgeois nationalism - and how often bourgeois nationalists play the anti-colonial card.


>Also, it is too simplistic to set up an either/or choice between
>nationalism and global capitalism, especially in that it is the
>latter that begets the former in all its varieties.

You did that, not me. What about revolutionary internationalism?

Doug



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list