Really enjoyed this piece, thank you. I hope there will be a sequel where you flesh out more fully the implications at the end. So long as people deny their political orientation (as pro-conflict/violence/Schmittian) it will be hard to have an honest conversation.
No real sequel planned so far, in part because the problem of Schmittian politics is hard to avoid. "Schmittian politics" is just all nation state politics, and I don't have a vision for either a different vision of the nation state or for how to do away with nation states. But I agree with you that naming the problem is a critical step, without which there can be no change.
I agree that it seems like a brick wall. The closest I have seen to an alternative (albeit with its own problems) is the Democratic Confederalism of Abdullah Öcalan https://www.plutobooks.com/author/abdullah-ocalan
I still think the visions of Rav Kook, Rabbi Chein and Rebbi Binyamin can disrupt the Schmittian dominance.
Ocalan looks fascinating and I’ll have to read more. Thanks!
I think their ideas are important for exactly this reason, but I still find it hard to imagine the path from point A to point B, as it were. I think a lot of the Jameson quote about it being easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
This is really great, thanks. Alot to chew on. Question though: Towards the end you seem to slip a bit from describing the views of Schmitt/Kahn/Soloveitchik to describing the situation of Jews/Israel as you understand it, through the lense of those thinkers. Am I right in understanding you that way? When you say "One implication of this dynamic is that the Antisemitism/Anti-Zionism problem really is insolvable." Do you mean "I think this dynamic as described by the Rav reflects reality, and so the problem is unsolvable?" Or are you saying that this is an implication of the Rav's thought?
Yeah definitely a slip there. I mean that, in my opinion, as long as Jews identify with the Jewish state, it will be impossible to draw a clean line between antisemitism and anti-Zionism.
Really enjoyed this piece, thank you. I hope there will be a sequel where you flesh out more fully the implications at the end. So long as people deny their political orientation (as pro-conflict/violence/Schmittian) it will be hard to have an honest conversation.
No real sequel planned so far, in part because the problem of Schmittian politics is hard to avoid. "Schmittian politics" is just all nation state politics, and I don't have a vision for either a different vision of the nation state or for how to do away with nation states. But I agree with you that naming the problem is a critical step, without which there can be no change.
I agree that it seems like a brick wall. The closest I have seen to an alternative (albeit with its own problems) is the Democratic Confederalism of Abdullah Öcalan https://www.plutobooks.com/author/abdullah-ocalan
I still think the visions of Rav Kook, Rabbi Chein and Rebbi Binyamin can disrupt the Schmittian dominance.
Ocalan looks fascinating and I’ll have to read more. Thanks!
I think their ideas are important for exactly this reason, but I still find it hard to imagine the path from point A to point B, as it were. I think a lot of the Jameson quote about it being easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
This is really great, thanks. Alot to chew on. Question though: Towards the end you seem to slip a bit from describing the views of Schmitt/Kahn/Soloveitchik to describing the situation of Jews/Israel as you understand it, through the lense of those thinkers. Am I right in understanding you that way? When you say "One implication of this dynamic is that the Antisemitism/Anti-Zionism problem really is insolvable." Do you mean "I think this dynamic as described by the Rav reflects reality, and so the problem is unsolvable?" Or are you saying that this is an implication of the Rav's thought?
Yeah definitely a slip there. I mean that, in my opinion, as long as Jews identify with the Jewish state, it will be impossible to draw a clean line between antisemitism and anti-Zionism.