Wednesday, June 19, 2013

The Limits of Ethnocracy: Racism, Zionism, and the Future of Israel

Click here to access article by Adam Simpson from Muftah.

What this "progressive" writer overlooks is that the other underlying commitment of the Zionist ruler besides to European Jewry, is their commitment to the Empire and the latter's capitalist ideology. Although Zionist propagandists like to use "democratic" rhetoric to legitimatize their rule, the history of Israel, like the history of all capitalist nations, demonstrates that they have few problems with adopting racist and police-state methods whenever such policies and practices serve their basic commitments.

The reason that "progressive" writers so frequently overlook this underlying factor is because it is never questioned by them. It is a given; it is a fact of life; it is like the water that fish swim in. Thus, it is never questioned or posed as a subject. Such writers have been so thoroughly indoctrinated in the values and principles of capitalism, it rarely surfaces in their consciousness. 

Or else, they are ideological operatives of the One Percent's ruling class whose job it is to divert attention away from the subject.