[lbo-talk] Jewish "nation"? (Was Armenian genocide?)

[Marvin Gandall]

Russell G. wrote:
>
> As I understand it, Leon saw a clean break between the people class and
> the
> new Jew of the modern era. However while he was - as were other Marxists
> of
> Jewish origin of that era - in favour of assimilation, he nevertheless
> favoured the right to national self-determination for the Jewish people.
> He
> understood that Jews had to make up their own minds about the
> appropriateness of the two options - an assimilationist 'solution' could
> not
> simply be decreed.
>
> Sadly, as we know, Leon died in Auschwitz in 1944. He was destined never
> to
> experience the disastrous imperialist 'solution' to the Jewish question in
> the bloody trap of a 'little Jewish Ulster' in Palestine.
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Yes, my view also.