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A scathing critique of the Left from an indigenous anti-colonial
perspective. Why am I writing this book? Because I share Gramsci's
anxiety: "The old are dying and the new cannot be born; in this
interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." The fascist
monster, born in the entrails of Western modernity. Of course, the
West is not what it used to be. Hence my question: what can we
offer white people in exchange for their decline and for the wars
that will ensue? There is only one answer: peace. There is only one
way: revolutionary love. -from Whites, Jews, and Us With Whites,
Jews, and Us, Houria Bouteldja launches a scathing critique of the
European Left from an indigenous anti-colonial perspective,
reflecting on Frantz Fanon's political legacy, the republican pact,
the Shoah, the creation of Israel, feminism, and the fate of
postcolonial immigration in the West in the age of rising
anti-immigrant populism. Drawing upon such prominent voices as
James Baldwin, Malcolm X, and Jean Genet, she issues a polemical
call for a militant anti-racism grounded in the concept of
revolutionary love. Such love will not come without significant
discomfort for whites, and without necessary provocation. Bouteldja
challenges widespread assumptions among the Left in the United
States and Europe-that anti-Semitism plays any role in Arab-Israeli
conflicts, for example, or that philo-Semitism doesn't in itself
embody an oppressive position; that feminism or postcolonialist
theory is free of colonialism; that integrationalism is a solution
rather than a problem; that humanism can be against racism when its
very function is to support the political-ideological apparatus
that Bouteldja names the "white immune system." At this
transitional moment in the history of the West-which is to say, at
the moment of its decline-Bouteldja offers a call for political
unity that demands the recognition that whiteness is not a genetic
question: it is a matter of power, and it is high time to dismantle
it. This Semiotext(e)/Intervention series English-language edition
includes a foreword by Cornel West.
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