"Taking the Civil War as his starting point for this trenchant survey of the #AmericanLeft, Hartman offers us dozens of portraits of #Marxism’s main protagonists [...] and charts their triumphs and travails all the way up to the present."
Robin Blackburn reviews #AndrewHartman's #KarlMarxInAmerica
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/karl-marx-in-america-marxism-in-us/
#Marx #AmericanMarxism #USleft #UShistory #AmericanHistory #USpolitics #books @bookstodon
The Outcasts of Zion | review essay by #BenjaminBalthaser
"The manufacturing of Jewish Zionist consensus lies at the heart of #AmericanLiberalism’s identity crisis."
#books discussed:
#BeingJewishAfterTheDestructionOfGaza
#TheThresholdOfDissent
#Doppelganger
#Unsettled
#OurPalestineQuestion
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-outcasts-of-zion/
#JewishAmericanPolitics #JewishAmericanHistory #JewishAmericanLeft #UShistory #USpol #USleft #Palestine #Gaza #PalestineQuestion @palestine @israel @histodons @bookstodon
![review essay in today's Boston Review
text (at right)
POLITICS
The Outcasts of Zion
The manufacturing of Jewish Zionist consensus lies at the heart of American liberalism’s identity crisis.
Benjamin Balthaser
[tags] Books & Ideas, History, Israel and Palestine, U.S.
image (photo, at left): Don Peretz, second from left, in Palestine in February 1949 with fellow American Friends Service Committee volunteers. The group was distributing aid to Arabs displaced during the Nakba. Image: Courtesy of Deb Peretz](/proxy/post_attachment/722312/6e265d1b70.png "review essay in today's Boston Review
text (at right)
POLITICS
The Outcasts of Zion
The manufacturing of Jewish Zionist consensus lies at the heart of American liberalism’s identity crisis.
Benjamin Balthaser
[tags] Books & Ideas, History, Israel and Palestine, U.S.
image (photo, at left): Don Peretz, second from left, in Palestine in February 1949 with fellow American Friends Service Committee volunteers. The group was distributing aid to Arabs displaced during the Nakba. Image: Courtesy of Deb Peretz")