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The issue seems worth getting - for instance I'm glad someone is finally writing about Louise Michel and the Kanak -- but I'll be damned if I'll slog through a million-word editorial without some explanation of why it's worth it. On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 10:19 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Yet there are Assad supporters who cheer on the bloodletting in Aleppo on > the basis of a crude, barbarised anti-empire sentiment: witness George > Galloway’s valediction ‘long live the Syrian Arab Republic’. If > antisemitism was last century’s socialism of fools, Islamophobia is this > century’s anti-imperialism of fools. > > Indeed, as the rise of the alt-right illustrates, the dominance of > Islamophobia is hardly any guarantee against the revival of antisemitism. > As Enzo Traverso has argued, the segue of one into the other is not > accidental. Their raciological metaphors are incredibly similar: ‘The > beards, tefellin and kaftans of the Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe > [of the early twentieth century] correspond to the beards and veils of the > Muslims today … Judaism and Islam both function as negative metaphors of > alterity; a century ago, the Jew as painted by popular iconography > inevitably had a hooked nose and sticking-out ears, just as Islam today is > identified by the burqa’. While much of the neo- and post-fascist Right has > made a conscious effort to shed pre-war variants of biological > antisemitism, the cultural tropes of Jew-baiting were visible in the Trump > campaign and are all over the pro-Trump far-right media, most notoriously > Breitbart. > > full: http://salvage.zone/in-print/order-prevails-in-washingston/ > > > -- > Support Louis Proyect biography project > https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/publish-the-biography-of- > socialist-louis-proyect#/ > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/opt > ions/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
