>>159043What does this prove?
Different social phenomena can appear similar on the surface;share forms, institutions, or symbols. While being opposed in essence and class content.
Schoenman correctly points out the right-wing, militarist character of Revisionist Zionism and its flirtation with fascist aesthetics. But his argument collapses crucial historical distinctions and class analysis. Zionism arose as a nationalist response of a persecuted, stateless people, not as an imperialist movement organized to smash the working class, which is the social function of fascism.
Ironically, some of the armed groups in the Middle East today that posture as “anti-imperialist resistance” have had direct ties to fascist and Nazi networks, the actual heirs of that reactionary current.