[lbo-talk] Islam and socialism

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Oct 26 09:07:36 PDT 2007


On Oct 26, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote, quoting YF:


>> What is on the political agenda in many nations (from Latin
>> America to
>> the Middle East), and what should get on the political agenda in many
>> others, today is not socialism but democracy and republicanism. If
>> socialism grows anywhere, perhaps in Venezuela, it will do so
>> organically out of people's practice of democracy and republicanism,
>> which will differ from one country to another. There is no other
>> way.
>
> there you have it.

Yeah. It's much better to hammer "secular leftists" for their failure to embrace religion in general and political Islam specifically than it is to talk to Muslims about socialism.

Doug



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