Always learn so much from all of your work. Especially appreciate the clarity and precision of your writing that still fans the revolutionary flames.
I did have a response to this thought:
"This new ethos complicates the logic of the imperialist world system without directly challenging it—a world-altering project, certainly, but not quite a worldmaking one."
I think the world-making one is liberatory Islam. I'm saying this as matter of fact not proselytization. It's just under-appreciated in the English speaking world because the discourse can't quite escape the "War on Terror" framing of this global phenomenon. Darryl Li has a good study on this phenomenon in relation to the Bosnian genocide in "The Universal Enemy"
If you think about it, it's this ethos that represents not just the ideology of Gaza's resistance factions, but the well from which revolutionary hope is drawn for the people of Gaza. Western and many secular Leftists don't quite know how to incorporate this into their worldview, but actually no one does. And I think this is where I gain so much from your framing. Even the world-making project of liberatory Islam is currently undergoing a tremendous transformation as part of this general new revolutionary ethos that I don't think anyone quite understands yet.
Always learn so much from all of your work. Especially appreciate the clarity and precision of your writing that still fans the revolutionary flames.
I did have a response to this thought:
"This new ethos complicates the logic of the imperialist world system without directly challenging it—a world-altering project, certainly, but not quite a worldmaking one."
I think the world-making one is liberatory Islam. I'm saying this as matter of fact not proselytization. It's just under-appreciated in the English speaking world because the discourse can't quite escape the "War on Terror" framing of this global phenomenon. Darryl Li has a good study on this phenomenon in relation to the Bosnian genocide in "The Universal Enemy"
If you think about it, it's this ethos that represents not just the ideology of Gaza's resistance factions, but the well from which revolutionary hope is drawn for the people of Gaza. Western and many secular Leftists don't quite know how to incorporate this into their worldview, but actually no one does. And I think this is where I gain so much from your framing. Even the world-making project of liberatory Islam is currently undergoing a tremendous transformation as part of this general new revolutionary ethos that I don't think anyone quite understands yet.