Re: [lbo-talk] Federico García Lorca and the Islamic Orient

Yoshie Furuhashi critical.montages at gmail.com
Mon Aug 21 10:39:06 PDT 2006


On 8/20/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 19, 2006, at 12:10 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > On 19 August 1936, Federico García Lorca was murdered by fascists. He
> > was one of the critical gay Orientalists*.
>
> Can you try, just for a day, to post on something other than Islam?

Some day, I shall elaborate on Presbyterianism, my partner's religion, instead -- now, that will _really_ put you to sleep. :->

On 8/20/06, Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> > Can you try, just for a day, to post on something
> > other than Islam?
>
> Actually, I'm pleased to see that Yoshie apparently
> (?) reads (some?) German.
>
> Yoshie, if this is the case, could you refer to the
> series of essays at
> www.kp-berlin.de/islamismus_kulturphaenomen_oder_krisenloesung.pdf
>
> I would be interested to know what you think of the
> work collected there. Most of it I suspect is not
> reflective of your current political perspective, but
> I would still be interested in hearing your comments.

Thanks for the link. I haven't got around to reading all the essays, but Sabah Alnasseri's essay looks promising, especially this part:

<blockquote>DIE KRISE DES STAATSZENTRIERTEN ENTWICKLUNGSMODELLS

Seit den 1970er Jahren befinden sich die arabischen Länder in einer tiefgreifenden strukturellen Krise. Sie erleben Umstrukturierungsprozesse, die nicht zuletzt mit der Krise des Fordismus in den metropolitanen Ländern und den dadurch bedingten Globalisierungsprozessen zusammenhängen. Ökonomisch äußert sich die Krise im Scheitern der jeweiligen hauptsächlich staatszentrierten Entwicklungsstrategien und in den dadurch bedingten Liberalisierungsund Strukturanpassungsprozessen. Ideologisch drückt sich die Krise nicht nur in der Verschiebung weg vom arabischen Nationalismus hin zum Islam-Diskurs aus, sondern vor allem im Kampf um die Definition der Krise selbst.

<www.kp-berlin.de/islamismus_kulturphaenomen_oder_krisenloesung.pdf></blockquote>

As a theoretical hypothesis, the idea that the crisis of state-centered economic development gave rise to the shift away from Arab nationalism and to the upsurge of Islamism sounds right to me, and the perspective that prompts us to look beyond the Middle East itself to Arab labor migration, as a result of post-Fordist restructuring, as an incubator for the turn to Islam is interesting, too, but I'd like to see empirical investigations of exactly how the economic crisis restructured the Arab working class, organized Arab labor migration, etc. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>



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