[lbo-talk] Basterds

Bryan Atinsky bryan at alt-info.org
Tue Dec 22 09:56:11 PST 2009


I don't see anything in what I said that would make you think I believe that "Zionism is [...] the great evil looming over the world"

But I can see what Israelis "love" about the film... because it aligns with their (our) subjectivity.

Bryan

Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:
> I don't see why Zionism is portrayed as the great evil looming over the
> world... as opposed to just one. How is it qualitatively different than
> other nationalist movements? How does the evils of Zionism compare to the
> historic subjection of let's say the Kurds or the Kashmiris?
>
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Bryan Atinsky <bryan at alt-info.org> wrote:
>
>
>> I thought similarly, that the movie is a reified fantasy of Zionist
>> subjectivity.
>>
>> Perhaps similar to the way that Mulholland Dr. is not the way it happened,
>> but an actualization of the way it felt (which is perhaps subjectively more
>> real than the events in themselves). Emotionally, at least on some level, to
>> an Israeli, the Palestinian/Israeli conflict is an existential fight against
>> the Nazis.
>>
>> Bryan
>>
>>
>> Dennis Perrin wrote:
>>
>>
>>> My take, humble as always:
>>>
>>> <http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2009/12/inglourious-sadests.html>
>>>
>>> Dennis
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