Hakki: I love it when you take my bait.
Lauren Langman is the chair of the Marxist Section of the American Sociological Association.
Of course, you clearly think your analysis is superior to that of the chair of the Marxist Section of the American Sociological Association. And that is your right. But it is a tad cheeky to suggest his work is not Marxist, no? We elected him, after all.
:-)
He is hardly a mediocre worthless gasbag, although the term has a certain ring to it, no?
-Chip
http://www.asanet.org/sections/marxist.html
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Hakki Alacakaptan
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 10:57 AM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: RE: al-Qaeda and Taliban
>
>
> || -----Original Message-----
> || From: Chip Berlet
> ||
> || Hi,
> ||
> || For the PRA page on understanding Islamic Fundamentalism,
> especially
> || Wahabbism and Salafism, and their relationship to the Taliban
> || and Osama bin
> || Laden, see:
> ||
> || http://www.publiceye.org/frontpage/911/wahhabism.html
> ||
> || Also the new article on the role of Islamic Fundamentalism:
> ||
> || Islamic Terrorism:
> || From Retrenchment to Ressentiment and Beyond
> ||
> || Lauren Langman and Douglas Morris
> || Loyola University of Chicago
> ||
> || http://www.angelfire.com/or3/tss2/islterror.html
> ||
> || Ressentiment is a concept of Nietzsche explaining how a
> condition of
> || repressed desire and emotion can create new forms of
> moral and political
> || expression focused on envy and revenge.
> ||
> || -Chip
> ||
>
> Your unfailing ability to drown the clearest political issues in
> pseudoscholarly obscurantism never ceases to amaze me. I
> click on the link
> for Jean Rosenfeld's treatrise, and I get a faceful of utter idealist
> hogwash, peppered with your fetish concept "millenialism". No
> mention of
> Saudi Arabia, no mention of Pakistan, no mention of the political and
> economic conditions creating the recruits for Saudi
> Wahhabism, the hatred
> created by US and Israeli hegemony, the Saudi corruption
> bolstered by the US
> military aegis, the use of Wahhabist militants as cannon
> fodder in the US's
> war against communism, just as they had been used by Great
> Britain against
> the Ottoman Empire, not a word of all this. All there is is a bunch of
> idealist, metaphysical claptrap about how millenialist
> beliefs make people
> crazy, and a bunch of cites of other worthless gasbags who
> will no doubt
> repay the favor in widening circles of mediocrity, swamping
> out any critical
> or - heaven forbid - Marxist thought.
>
> Hakki
>