>>2895447Lauf lost. I was totally betting on the beach babe but she just didn't have what it took.
>>2895473Just a thought. But I think there might be obstacles to transferring an anti-imperialist form of politics in a colonized / third-world country to the United States, but the United States is not actually (as a matter of objective reality) colonized by Israel. I mean it's not like French colonialism in Algeria or S.E. Asia, or British colonialism in India. I think you need more than for people to just "feel" like they're under occupation by a foreign entity, in those situations they literally were under occupation by foreign troops from Europe who spoke a different language.
Israel does try to push its agenda in the U.S. very hard, but the vector for that is a well-organized, highly civically engaged Jewish community in the United States. It's those people who assembled like Voltron and voted for Jared Moskowitz on Tuesday night. AIPAC money comes from within the United States. We have a pretty good sense of who the largest donors are, and the top guys are Jewish CEOs like Bernard Marcus of Home Depot, Jan Koum of WhatsApp, and various real-estate executives and directors of deluxe hedge funds from the East Coast financial sector:
https://www.trackaipac.com/donorsBut their investments are also global, and they have investments in Israel as well. But these ARE your neighbors. They live in New York and Palm Beach. Well maybe not your
neighbor neighbors, but they live here in this country and they're Americans.
I don't know what political implications we can draw from that. The far right wants to make it an ethnic conflict: the problem is the Jews. And look! (They'll say.) Here's a list of money-grubbing Jews with a lot of power! What they want to do is construct a cross-class alliance against the Jews. And then socialists on the left want to construct a politics that is "us vs. the billionaires" (more populist) without regard for the ethnicity of the billionaires. Or the working class vs. the capitalists.
One critique that Marxists have made of antisemitism is that it can paradoxically reaffirm the system of global capitalism by identifying the many problems as being caused by this minority group (as wealthy as it is). Even "capitalists" too if you want to get more leftcom with it; rather it's more of a system in which capitalists are also functionaries. In any event, the problem doesn't go away either because of the manifest badness of the situation and the relative weakness of the left at offering an alternative since socialism widely came to be viewed as discredited.
The scapegoat might shift to other people as well. This is running pretty hot at the moment, but it could recede in the future (it comes and goes), and people will find some other group to project all the ills of the society on. Also anti-imperialism is a hard sell because a lot of Americans don't believe that they're the moral equivalent of the Empire from Star Wars. A lot of Americans are more likely to view aggressive wars by the U.S. as idiotic mistakes than how the anti-imperialist left often likes to present them. So again, that allows the far right to advance the argument that "Americans" are basically good but "the Jews" are responsible. And on the left you might hear "Israel" as opposed to America.
And there is a danger of the left doing the "America deserved 9/11" stuff. But there might also be a danger of over-doing the anti-Zionism (which holds regardless of whether it's correct or incorrect) becase that risks getting ahead of the left's emphasis on advancing the interests of the working class and the poor. If those people feel like the left has abandoned them, they will vote for right-wing nationalists who will then produce a foreign policy that the left is likely to view as even more imperialist than what the U.S. is doing right now. So that can be a bad spiral. Idk, I've said enough, what does everyone else think?