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On 10/9/17 7:26 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:
NY Times, Oct. 9 2017
What Killed the Promise of Muslim Communism?
Red Century series (100th anniversary of Russian Revolution)
by John T. Sidel
LONDON — For a brief moment after the Bolshevik uprisings of 1917, it
looked like revolution might be waged across vast swaths of the world
under the joint banner of Communism and Islam.
Interesting comment on this from a Tunisian on FB:
Socialism existed at the time of Sultan Abdulhamid II (who was
destituated in 1909 before the october revolution), especially in Egypt,
a province which enjoyed a certain autonomy from the Ottoman Empire, but
it was not really communism, it was toughts inspired by various thinkers
such as Marx, Engles, but also Kropotkin and Bakounin, (many italian
anarchists lived in Alexandria at that time).
The first Arab socialists were Sibli Shumayil - the first to translate
the writings of darwin, buchner, Huxley and spencer into Arabic (1870
..), Farah Anton - who rediscovered the writings of Ibn Rushd
(averoese), Nikola Haddad, and then Salama Moussa. They published their
tribunes at a Revue called "Al-Muqtataf". It was in the late 18th and
early 19th century, the Arabs call this time An-Nahda which means the
renaissance.
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