Holocaust Studies and commemoration) is exactly the moment you falsify that effort. The fact the discipline is so cowardly in the face of genocide in the Gaza Strip is a testament to this tension.
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lovebornee
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Last Resistance documents very similar criticisms of the “Shoah Business”—in a book published in 2007! And she is obviously influenced by Gillian Rose here.
If you want to do justice to the remembrance of the Holocaust, turning it into a sacred object (à la institutional
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One of the world’s most renowned authorities on the Holocaust had to publicly call out the discipline and commemorative institutions for either being silent on the genocide in Gaza, denying the war crimes taking place there, or just running propaganda for it outright.
Organizermemes@OrganizerMemes
Yall are literally just Nazis at this point
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@maoisthnvx_25 @nukedwest Uh oh, looks like Enzo Traverso, Jacqueline Rose, and Omer Bartov are *checks notes* playing into neo-Nazism. Genuinely thought-terminating
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@nukedwest These people would genuinely throw a fit if they ever read any critical Jewish writings on Holocaust commemoration, I’m convinced of it
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@hassjsb13990 You’re just not thinking hard enough. Israel is granted the abstract right of self defense *in defense* of an illegal occupation, apartheid, and system of ghettoes. It can assert rights while abdicating any and all responsibilities—that’s the magic of the liberal state order.
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How can you claim to support a “Free Palestine” while also claiming Israel has a right to defend itself? Do you think Rhodesia or Apartheid South Africa had a right to defend themselves?
Anti-Tankie Progressive 🇵🇸 🇨🇩 🇺🇦 🇻🇪 🏳️🌈@vcadellalt3
@hassjsb13990 @ChangingFlow @TheRubberBaron @PostLeftWatch Israel has the right to defend itself. Genocide isn’t the way to defend itself. That was her point. Cry harder, tankie screecher.
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Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism: “‘Instead of pitying us and being horrified by the atrocities of imperialism, better fight against it in your own country as we do in ours,’ said the Algerians, ‘That is the best way to help us and to put an end to the atrocities.’”
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@hayxtt I disagree, trying to anchor dialectical philosophy into a verse from the Qur’an risks falsifying its critical reason. We should be beyond that.
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You’re not getting communism because party organizing has failed on every front. It’s reduced itself to pathetic electoral campaigns & toothless protests.
But sure, blame Muslims & the Quran instead. Easier than confronting your own political failures, I guess.
Woland 🇵🇸@stendhalist
Look at my Marxists dawg it's so over we're never getting Communism
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@jzux Does that have to be the case? No, but simply wishing it not to be or glossing nostalgia over the Bund will not resolve it. Progressive Jews are by and large not overdetermined by their position as Jews to run against the grain now. (See Traverso). The tension runs through that.
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@jzux few things can be true here: Jewish modernity is largely ethnonationalist, paranoiac, and Zionist (Enzo Traverso argues this), emulating in its form antisemitism vis a vis Jewish racialization, and at the same time it empties Jewish existence of its history (Boyarin notes this).
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kind of sucks to see Judaism and Zionism get so hopelessly conflated on here. that’s exactly what both the Zionists AND the antisemites wanted. nobody wins when you guys do that shit
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feel lot of arguments about the proletariat and the bourgeoisie qua coherent entities would do well to see that class is a relation of struggle: whoever toils under its sign lives a life cut and divided in and against itself. Gunn explains it well.
libcom.org/article/notes-…
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@ZyklusZyklus @VenturCommunist I’d like to try but I’ve never done that before tbh
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As an aside, also relates to observation by Adorno in History and Freedom lectures: “The scraps of a subjugated nature that have been spewed out by process of domination are just as deformed as those that are ground down by machinery. Only true understanding would be superior”.
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And as workers who hate work, there must be a good enough approach to the tension. Which will be found in crisis moments by brave individuals / groups / parties.
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It’s funny to me when people valorize culture qua culture (i.e. a particular, in contrast to Civilization, the false whole), thinking this has solved the issue of this fateful world—or is even close to solving the tension theoretically.
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@stendhalist @sharpedges756 It’s even more ironic because the one place most historically ravaged by the United States, Latin America, largely extricated itself from the Bush-era rendition program in the 2000s. (Guantanamo Bay being the exception that really proved the rule).
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unfortunately I just spent $2,600 at the oral surgeon, so some of these need to wait. (Rabinowitch and Neel will be coming first though).
anathema@EatRdyn
Books waiting to be purchase in my cart
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@VenturCommunist Unfortunately I think the seller (on Etsy) just isn’t active anymore, the shop was closed down
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lovebornee รีทวีตแล้ว
“Constellations étincelantes d’espaces urbains, mines mégalithiques [...] glaciers dénudés [...] autant d’éléments d’une « nouvelle nature » sculptée non pas par la technologie ni par une « humanité » générique, mais bien par les impératifs spécifiques de la société capitaliste.”
Montages@RevueMontages
Nous publions un nouveau texte de Phil A. Neel traitant de la matérialité de ce qu'il nomme "usine planétaire" : la formation concrète à l'échelle du globe d'un complexe d'exploitation des terres et des vies.
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