more on Islamism as 'new social movement'

[Gordon Fitch]

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