The west has long history of westerners who are lauded as progressive because they are supposedly against said bad thing outside their borders but denigrate the people actually fighting said bad thing. These westerners gain support because they promise to distribute the loot of imperialism more equitably but will effectively do zilch against said imperialism.
One can rationalise away what Mamdani said above but given the context of everything else he said it is clear what this is: liberal zionism. If you’re against zionism but you admonish the people on the ground fighting said zionism, especially during a genocide, then you’re not against zionism.
Liberalism has a special skill to isolate anything outside of its wider context and resort to non-scientific essentialism; dialectical materialism does not tolerate such nonsense, it is best to learn this superpower in this cruel world.
The west has long history of westerners who are lauded as progressive because they are supposedly against said bad thing outside their borders but denigrate the people actually fighting said bad thing. These westerners gain support because they promise to distribute the loot of imperialism more equitably but will effectively do zilch against said imperialism.
One can rationalise away what Mamdani said above but given the context of everything else he said it is clear what this is: liberal zionism. If you’re against zionism but you admonish the people on the ground fighting said zionism, especially during a genocide, then you’re not against zionism.
Liberalism has a special skill to isolate anything outside of its wider context and resort to non-scientific essentialism; dialectical materialism does not tolerate such nonsense, it is best to learn this superpower in this cruel world.