Zionism, anti-semitism and the left: An interview with Moishe Postone

An interview with Postone by the Alliance for Workers Liberty.

(More related material from the AWL here. Links to more Postone resources here.)

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  1. on February 11, 2010 schalomlibertad wrote:

    This is the highlight:

    Today, I doubt that even the people who proclaim “We are all Hezbollah” or “We are all Hamas” would say that those movements represent an emancipatory social order. At best what is involved is an Orientalist reification of the Arabs and/or Muslims as the Other, whereby the Other, this time, is affirmed. It is yet another indication of historical helplessness on the part of the left, the inability to come up with any imaginary of what a post-capitalist future might look like. Not having any vision of a post-capitalist future, many have substituted a reified notion of “resistance” for any conception of transformation. Anything that “resists” the United States becomes regarded positively. I regard this as an extremely questionable form of thought.

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