A living left will always contain different traditions and debates, but we must recognise the principal contradiction between labour and capital, between the vast majority who produce social wealth and the tiny minority who appropriate it.
Judging from victories BDS appears to be racking up it seems that finally, this strategy based on sustained and escalating pressure on Israel in all fields – academic, cultural, economic and military – is starting to have a real effect.
Molly Crabapple's inspirational history of the Bund reminded me of the many ways in which the self-styled "Jewish State" is a monument to hatred (of Jews as well as of Palestinians).
A defensible answer might be that a society serious about equality, democracy, and the finite nature of our world will, over time, make it impossible for them to arise.
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