Subject: Re: Is Hamas killing wokeness?
Dope: Yes. And who were they? Who influenced them?

What were his influences? Karl Marx, of course:

Yes, but understand the influence and don't color everything Marxist if the influence can be detected because:

snip The first condition is that we recognize that classical Marxism's essential contribution is a methodological approach that relates ideological facts to their material underpinning and explores the dialectical relationship between the material and the ideological. This is the indispensable condition for a resolute repudiation of all kinds of essentialism, like the one that Edward Said popularized under the label of Orientalism. Indeed, in this work Said was profoundly mistaken about Marx, characterizing him among the nineteenth-century Orientalists on the basis of a single 1853 article on India, which he actually misread.

Th method show up every from what I understand. I say "understand" because I have no read everywhere, so I take people's word for it. I could use a refresher on the method it was so long ago.

snipThe second condition for a good use of the materialist interpretation of religion is to acknowledge that it can only offer a partial explanation of religious phenomena. Of all ideological forms, religion is certainly the most complex, a fact that goes along with the exceptional longevity and adaptability of religious ideologies. Reaching a satisfactory understanding of religions requires the mobilization of the entire tool kit of social sciences, including social psychology and psychoanalysis......

.....This analytic key is to be combined with another one ' or rather, an intuition ' in Marx's and Engels's Communist Manifesto where they explained that, confronted with the steamroller of capitalist development, part of the middle layers, the petit-bourgeois and the like, 'try to roll back the wheel of history.' The idea of a 'return' to the predominance of the City of God, of the 'restoration' of the distant past of Antiquity or the Middle Ages ' a highly mythologized past, needless to say ' is indeed a crucial dimension of religious fundamentalisms. Such backward-looking and chimeric escapism is a very understandable reaction to the adversity and misfortunes of our present time, especially when it means identification with a counter-society, be it of the size of a small clan or a large tribe.

I skimmed this, and got the gist that the Marx analysis is used, but is incomplete, and to shorten everything up, the Islamist fundamentalism is an expected reactionary force - even if it does use some of the methodology. But Hamas is trying to install a religious autocracy - there is no vanguard of the proletariat marching in to take control of the production.



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