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al-Qāʿidah, conservative utopianism, counter revolution, Egypt, Islamaphobia, Islamism, Israel, Jihad, mass action from below, Revolution, Salafism, the ISIS current, the Muslim Brotherhood
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Chris Harman
The prophet and the proletariat
(Autumn 1994)
From International Socialism Journal 2:64, Autumn 1994.
Copyright © 1994 International Socialism.
Later published as a pamphlet by Bookmarks, London.
Copied with thanks from REDS – Die Roten.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive.
Radical Islam as a social movement
The contradictions of Islamism: Egypt
The contradictions of Islamism: Algeria
Reblogged this on Worldtruth and commented:
The link to the Marxist Internet Archive and write up by Chris Harman was excellent and well worth the reading.
Hi Norm,
Clever you for finding this gem and well worth the several hours it took me to read through.
Enjoyed it very much.
🙂
Susan
Yes, a big read. I’m just now getting through my first perusal.
Very much worth it, I think, as one does come away with a greater appreciation of the endogenous complexities and nuances of the many currents contesting the political terrain of the Middle East.
Certainly, the situation is more knotted than if it were merely the false contrivances of Western intrigues, although, to be sure, there is plenty of that, too. But it isn’t just a story, as it tends to be told, about the West wanting to subjugate the Muslim world, but about the Muslim world also making a bid on its own terms for its emancipation both within and without.