Israel-Palestine: A Single State Solution is Idealism
I feel that self-professed Marxists and Marxist-Leninists who advocate for a single-state solution right now with regards to Israel-Palestine really haven't grasped the problem materially or dialectically. To address the problem correctly and come to the correct conclusion, material conditions must be analysed and bought to the fore. Two states currently exist, Israel and Palestine. They are locked in an imperialist struggle. This is the real, material situation of this continuing and devastating conflict. The primary contradiction here is imperialism. To bring forth the material reality of a two-state solution would necessitate the ending of imperialist struggle. This would be "the negation of the negation". By that, we mean something new and different is possible from there on out as previous material relations have passed into and become history; the old has been sublated by the new. It is only at this point does a single state start to become a real possibility, if at...