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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Although the contributions here were written before the events of October 7, it is impossible to read the book outside of the many conflicts that continue to divide the left on the question of Israel and Palestine. At times, the arguments here lack a sufficiently critical perspective on Israel, Zionism and the political economy of occupation. Antisemitism, indeed, exists. There are also antisemitic perspectives regarding the state of Israel and Zionism. In a treatment of the Initiative Socialist Forum (ISF), for example, Stoetzler relates some of the history regarding the anti-Zionism of the Stalinist and Maoist, German New Left (16-17). The politics of antisemitism, however, is also being instrumentalized by defenders of Israeli policy against those who express solidarity for occupied Palestine. Although one does find a differential account of the Frankfurt School’s varying political orientations in regarding Zionism here, too often the treatment of the Palestine question plays into equivocations regarding the politics of anti-Zionism and antisemitism in a manner that reduces all criticism of Israel to pathologized forms of anti-imperialism or anti-capitalism. The uncritical acceptance of an absolute identity of Israeli policy and Jewishness can also be a form of antisemitism, as Braune observes (165). Such equivocation preempts the possibility of enlightened, rational criticism of Israeli policies. Can such a critical perspective that grasps the concrete violence of Israel-Palestine be grasped in its mediation by capitalist society? At times it seems not. Still, the arguments presented here are far from monolithic­, and should be considered."

marxandphilosophy.org.uk/revie

marxandphilosophy.org.uk‘Critical Theory and the Critique of Antisemitism’ by Marcel Stoetzler (ed) reviewed by Charles A PrusikThis volume, edited by Marcel Stoetzler, compiles essays from a range of authors in an effort to develop a critical theory of antisemitism. The book’s rallying cry is best encapsulated by August Bebel’s well-known phrase: ‘Antisemitism is the socialism of fools.’ Against liberal, conservative or traditionally socialist critiques of antisemitism, the authors intend to develop a ‘sustained critique of categories of thought and practice central to modern liberal, bourgeois, capitalist society’ (1). In other words, the contributors move beyond traditional liberal accounts that point to antisemitism as a mere symptom or defect in an otherwise humane and just society, and…
#CriticalTheory#Antisemitism#Zionism
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kravietz 🦇

How pseudo-science drives out science when powered by quasi-religious ideology? This is a very good long-read about the similarities between 1920’s #Lysenkoism and today’s #MAHA movement.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/make-america-healthy-again-the-new-lysenkoism/

On a personal note, in early 2000’s I got interested in #Marxism specifically through Lysenkoism - I simply couldn’t believe how apparently educated people could, for a quarter of century, aggressively push pseudo-scientific nonsense that visibly contradicted the physical, observed reality. This article explains very well how that happened, and how it’s happening again.

Science-Based Medicine · “Make America Healthy Again”: The new LysenkoismTrofim Lysenko was a Soviet scientist whose dogmatic science denialism led to mass famine when his ideas were applied to agriculture. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a lot like Lysenko in his science denial
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"He (Proudhon) wants to soar as the man of science above the bourgeois and proletarians; he is merely the petty bourgeois, continually tossed back and forth between capital and labour, political economy and communism."

– Karl Marx, "The Poverty of Philosophy,"
Chapter Two: The Metaphysics of Political Economy, Part 1: The Method
#socialism #communism #capitalism #marxism

marxists.org/archive/marx/work

www.marxists.orgThe Poverty of Philosophy - Chapter 2.1
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