[lbo-talk] Anti-globalists Reach Out to Islamists

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 4/13/07, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Yoshie wrote:
>
> >The larger point -- an incompatibility of materialism in science with
> >Islam and Islamism
>
> Not that one.  This one:
> http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/Elberg/Ali/ali-con4.html
>
> >So in the end, is it really this inability to separate religion from
> >the state in the Islamic world that is the key problem? Or is the
> >problem of the Muslim world's relation to the Western empire more
> > important?
> >
> >It's a combination of both. The critique, therefore, has to be a
> >dual critique, both of the empire, but also of the failure of these
> >regimes in [the Islamic] world to sort out their own problems.

Perhaps you don't understand politics in Egypt, or what I have posted
here (from the Al-Ahram Weekly article to my own notes), but the
Brothers and their socialist allies in Egypt are focusing on the
regime in their own country and seeking to change it, through
parliamentary politics, demonstrations, and the like.  If they were
blaming the empire for everything, they wouldn't be trying to replace
the Mubarak regime.

In more general terms, I have already discussed the question of the
empire and national politics in
<http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20070409/007264.html>
among other postings here.
-- 
Yoshie