more on Islamism as 'new social movement'
Gordon Fitch
gcf at panix.com
Fri Nov 15 10:24:18 PST 2002
Gordon Fitch:
> >So if Marxism is the West, and Islamism is the West, and
> >postmodernism and modernism are the West, and of course
> >liberalism and capitalism are the West, what is the
> >not-West?
Doug Henwood:
> Hey, as David Bowie put it in like 1975 or 1976, "the European planet is
> here."
So the West has defeated itself and is now in the process of
terrorizing itself in its resentment, seeking vengeance for
this defeat.
And you say Baudrillard is a charlatan?
-- Gordon
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