> > Nobody is afraid of identity per se.
in fact all r afraid of 'identity'. wht should be a nair identity was a big question. still many afraid to face it. now they have resolved it as part of the community assertion. and it 's complicated affari as well. Everybody should be concerned about identity politics, particularly the kind > practiced by Madani. though u have every right to think that only Madani is wrong, i must point out that, ur narration refuse to see the danger in the 'cultural nationalism' and 'HIndu identity' politics preached and brutally practised by 'hinduism'. (historically indulged in such barbarsm) bUShing of global politics do construct the OTHER in muslim such imaginations comfortably place onself in a secure position at the global political negotiations. when madani is being targeted, the 'terrorist' activities of RSS/sagh parivar and CO go unnoticed. such SILENCES r very clever, indeed. i wonder, if far or soft left is a point of worry, why one fail to see the bigger ENEMY OF HUMANITY--- both conservative soft and hard hindutva ideologues. One of the most egregious political developments of recent times is the > Islamist-Leftist alliance that has been established on an international as > well as local scale. We see Pinarayi speaking at conferences organized by > hard core religious fundamentalists. It was really scary to see a person no > less than the state home minister attending Madani's reception, considering > that the Kerala Police under him have pressed criminal charges against > Madani (whatever be the merits of those charges). > > Author Nick Cohen writes in his What is Left: *The far left had no > future-- that had been clear for decades. But if it could downplay Marxism > and appeal to Muslim grievance, maybe it could make it as a communalist > party exploiting support for political Islam. Their theorists had been > saying since the early Nineties that if they got into bed with Islam they > could "secretly try to win some of the young people who support it to a very > different, independent, revolutionary socialist perspective". Perhaps that > daydream consoled them. Perhaps it allowed them to pretend to themselves > that they were covertly building up the radical left rather than riding the > Islamist tiger. Maybe they no longer believed in their hearts in > "independent revolutionary socialist perspectives"-- no one else did-- and > just wanted to ally with the real threat to the established order. > > *However, it is not just the far left, but even the soft left including > the 'anti-globalization' activists who enthusiastically embrace radical > Islamists. In the recent Cairo > conference<http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/839/sc1.htm>that brought together > the 'anti-imperialist' Left and the Islamists, Ali > Fayyad of the Hizbullah opined: "*The differences of Hamas and Hizbullah > with the left are minor -- family and social priorities..." *Oh yeah, the > right of women to live freely and the right of homosexuals to live at all > are small matters. > > In their quest to destroy their mortal enemies, the Left has sold its soul > to the fundamentalists. > > Best regards, > Murali. > > On 8/2/07, Ranjit Ranjit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Will Madani explicitly reject his politics of identity and division? > > Let's wait and see. > > > > why should Madani reject his politics of identity? > > who's afraid of Dalit-OBC-Muslim identity?? > > > > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. > - Joseph Stalin > > To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. > These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a > revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing > machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy > of the paredon (The Wall)! > - Che Guevara > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- Ranjit --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ greenyouth mailinglist is the activist support mailinglist for kerala To post to this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
