It’s already being used to further attack and dehumanize trans people. We are now firmly in an equivalent to the satanic panic of the 1980s.
Where are all the human rights organizations that love to bash non-Western countries now that entire states are becoming physically unsafe for trans people? Not to mention the regular occurrence of mass shootings that everyone for some reason has gotten used to as the new normal? If this was happening in Russia or China we would never hear the end of it.
American society has become psychopathic. The Marxist concept of alienation isn’t just academic/theoretical, it does real world harm!
We are now firmly in an equivalent to the satanic panic of the 1980s.
…so it’s gonna die down in 2030s-2040s?
Where are all the human rights organizations that love to bash non-Western countries
they’re sucking on their thumbs. human rights organizations’ real purpose is to try to continue exerting usonian control over other countries through appealing to feelings/morality.
American society has become psychopathic
the world will do so.much.better. with the cessation of usonia’s existence. i’m convinced that this is what all the abrahamic religions meant by coming of the antichrist. literal hell on earth.
spoiler
half-joking, but wouldn’t be further from the truth
Correct, but Iranians also called USSR the Lesser Satan (because of “State Atheism” I guess?). However, a friend told me that Iranians don’t have problems with the Soviets, unlike with Usonians; so it kind of makes it weird why they gave the USSR a similar nickname…
From my understanding, it goes back to the Iran-Iraq war, when the Soviet Union supplied weapons to Iraq. But the Iranian government has always had a complicated relationship with Marxism-Leninism. Marxist parties have been (often violently) surpressed, and the government officially condemns Marxism as atheistic and incompatible with Islam. However, Marx and Lenin are studied in Iranian universites as anti-colonial political thinkers, and the Iranian government’s understanding of imperialism is Leninist. The state ideology of Iran, in other words, is not Marxist, but it incorporates many elements of Marxism.
To understand Islam as a political movement in today’s world, we need to recognize that there are three main political currents in contemporary Islam: Shia as represented by Iran, the Muslim Brotherhood or “westernizers,” and Wahhabism. Shia is generally anti-imperialist in the Leninist sense, and tends to be allied with Russia and AES states. The Muslim Brotherhood (think Turkey, Qatar, and Al-Jazeera magazine) hold a position similar to that of many Protestants in the US: namely, capitalism is in itself morally neutral, and bad only when unguided by religious principles. Wahhabism, heavily promoted by Saudi Arabia, is anti-capitalist and opposed to western colonialism, but believes that the solution is reestablishing both the caliphate and the entire medieval social order; it can probably be fairly considered a form of fascism.
Your explanation of the three tendencies is generally correct but it is dangerous and misleading to identify the first, the anti-imperialist one, with Shia Islam alone. Indeed there are plenty of non-Shia Muslims, such as the majority Sunni Syrians, who also belong to this category. Conversely, there are some groups, albeit small and fringe, who though nominally Shia have more in common with the Wahabbist tendency.
It is a mistake to attempt to make one-to-one correlations between religious denominations and political-ideological inclinations. The theological and doctrinal differences are more subtle than what this simplified picture would suggest, and frankly such religious debates do not concern us as Marxists.
We are interested in the real world political side. And the idea that Sunni and Shia Islam are irreconcilably politically at odds with each other is an invention of the imperialists that serves their divisive purposes.
It’s already being used to further attack and dehumanize trans people. We are now firmly in an equivalent to the satanic panic of the 1980s.
Where are all the human rights organizations that love to bash non-Western countries now that entire states are becoming physically unsafe for trans people? Not to mention the regular occurrence of mass shootings that everyone for some reason has gotten used to as the new normal? If this was happening in Russia or China we would never hear the end of it.
American society has become psychopathic. The Marxist concept of alienation isn’t just academic/theoretical, it does real world harm!
…so it’s gonna die down in 2030s-2040s?
they’re sucking on their thumbs. human rights organizations’ real purpose is to try to continue exerting usonian control over other countries through appealing to feelings/morality.
the world will do so. much. better. with the cessation of usonia’s existence. i’m convinced that this is what all the abrahamic religions meant by coming of the antichrist. literal hell on earth.
spoiler
half-joking, but wouldn’t be further from the truth
don’t tend to f/w religion personally but the homies in the Islamic Republic of Iran are astute as all hell calling Amerika the Great Satan
Correct, but Iranians also called USSR the Lesser Satan (because of “State Atheism” I guess?). However, a friend told me that Iranians don’t have problems with the Soviets, unlike with Usonians; so it kind of makes it weird why they gave the USSR a similar nickname…
From my understanding, it goes back to the Iran-Iraq war, when the Soviet Union supplied weapons to Iraq. But the Iranian government has always had a complicated relationship with Marxism-Leninism. Marxist parties have been (often violently) surpressed, and the government officially condemns Marxism as atheistic and incompatible with Islam. However, Marx and Lenin are studied in Iranian universites as anti-colonial political thinkers, and the Iranian government’s understanding of imperialism is Leninist. The state ideology of Iran, in other words, is not Marxist, but it incorporates many elements of Marxism.
To understand Islam as a political movement in today’s world, we need to recognize that there are three main political currents in contemporary Islam: Shia as represented by Iran, the Muslim Brotherhood or “westernizers,” and Wahhabism. Shia is generally anti-imperialist in the Leninist sense, and tends to be allied with Russia and AES states. The Muslim Brotherhood (think Turkey, Qatar, and Al-Jazeera magazine) hold a position similar to that of many Protestants in the US: namely, capitalism is in itself morally neutral, and bad only when unguided by religious principles. Wahhabism, heavily promoted by Saudi Arabia, is anti-capitalist and opposed to western colonialism, but believes that the solution is reestablishing both the caliphate and the entire medieval social order; it can probably be fairly considered a form of fascism.
Your explanation of the three tendencies is generally correct but it is dangerous and misleading to identify the first, the anti-imperialist one, with Shia Islam alone. Indeed there are plenty of non-Shia Muslims, such as the majority Sunni Syrians, who also belong to this category. Conversely, there are some groups, albeit small and fringe, who though nominally Shia have more in common with the Wahabbist tendency.
It is a mistake to attempt to make one-to-one correlations between religious denominations and political-ideological inclinations. The theological and doctrinal differences are more subtle than what this simplified picture would suggest, and frankly such religious debates do not concern us as Marxists.
We are interested in the real world political side. And the idea that Sunni and Shia Islam are irreconcilably politically at odds with each other is an invention of the imperialists that serves their divisive purposes.
Point taken – thanks for the constructive critique.
I feel the same way.