Mehring Books is pleased to announce the release of The Logic of Zionism: From nationalist myth to the Gaza genocide in paperback and EPUB formats.
The lectures presented in this volume are a penetrating analysis of the reactionary ideological and political foundations of Zionism and a powerful call for international action by the working class in defense of the Palestinian people.
The author, David North, said in the final lecture delivered in Berlin on December 14 last year, “The ongoing war, for all its horrors, has made one significant political contribution. It has awakened the youth. It has opened the eyes of the world. It has exposed the Zionist regime and its imperialist accomplices for the criminals they are. It has set into motion a tidal wave of outrage that is sweeping across the world and will sweep across those responsible for this genocide.”
All four lectures in the book were made in observation of the centenary of the founding of the Trotskyist movement.
They explain how the Gaza genocide as well as the expanding war in Ukraine are catastrophic consequences of national political programs in an historical epoch whose essential characteristics are the primacy of world economy and the global integration of the working class. These conditions demand an international strategy and socialist program for working class struggle.
Excerpt from the December 2023 lecture delivered in Berlin, Germany
Praise for Logic of Zionism
“The genocide in Gaza by the IDF is the open expression of the underlying genocidal logic of Zionism. Zionism from its beginnings has been an instrument of imperialism. Israel’s Final Solution in Gaza is the Middle Eastern front of the imperialist war for global domination by the US and its European allies, while the other front is the Ukraine proxy war against Russia. The Trotskyist perspective of world revolution, articulated in this book by David North and the ICFI, is the only vantage point from which the history of the present can be witnessed with clarity.”
Charles Thorpe, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego
About the author
David North’s activity in the international workers and Trotskyist movement, as a revolutionary journalist, historian and political leader, spans a half century. He is presently the chairman of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States, and has served as the chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site since its founding in 1998. North has written extensively on Marxist theory, the history of socialism and the Fourth International, the geopolitics of US imperialism, and the strategy and program of the present-day struggle for socialism. His books include The Heritage We Defend; In Defense of Leon Trotsky; The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century; The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and the Politics of the Pseudo-Left; A Quarter Century of War: The U.S. drive for global hegemony 1990-2016; and Leon Trotsky and the Struggle for Socialism in the Twenty-First Century.
