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One more time wi feeling: Molly Crabapple on the bund

'Yes, it’s hideously racist here, but also it’s not genetic. It’s not that these Europeans are fundamentally evil. It’s because of these systems that blame Jews to take the heat off of the autocracy or off of the capitalists or off of the ruler. And we can actually fight alongside Russians or Poles or French or German people for a better world'

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https://hammerandhope.org/article/molly-crabapple-jewish-labor-bund

The Jewish Labor Organizers Who Challenged Zionism From the Start

A new history of the Jewish Bund explores the beauty and fragility of solidarity across difference.

Hammer & Hope
Apr 11 at 2:41amWeb
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'what this book is really about is solidarity at its core, the beauty of solidarity, but also the fragility and the failures of solidarity and how often it shatters. But at the same time it’s the only thing that can save us and stop us from this cycle of barbarism where people just take turns as the oppressor and the oppressed. It’s the only way that we can get to a decent world'