http://www.workersliberty.org/story/2010/02/05/zionism-anti-semitism-and-left (Download this link for Postone’s views.
Here is one Marxist perspective that sees much of the history of antisemitism and anti-Zionism as I have related it on this website. I am especially pleased that he makes a distinction between antisemitism and racism. Note that Postone faults the Left with failure to envision a post-capitalist society. Also that he is no Third Worlder.
However, I don’t see how he and other Marxists of my acquaintance can read Marx’s “On The Jewish Question,” and not see that Marx was himself guilty of that which Postone criticizes. I strongly recommend Frank E. Manuel’s short study, “Requiem for Karl Marx.” If anyone wants to criticize Manuel, himself a great historian and former Leftist (in the mid-1930s he left academe for a while to develop a curriculum for the labor movement, moreover he wrote a book in support of the Communist position in the Spanish Civil War), I welcome such a rational critique and will post it here.
