• AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml
    7·
    22時間前

    which is ironically an anti-materialist way of viewing the world.

    Right. Couldn’t have said it better myself. The leadership of the resistance is way more rooted in real existing circumstances.

    For example, one might ask about how the Islamic Revolution improved womens literacy so much in such a short period of time. Well, the leadership was aware that Iranian women of all ages and social/economic classes attended the mosque. So they set up womens reading programs in all the mosques, urban and rural. And women teachers were paid to run these programs for everyone from kids to grandmother’s. Seems pretty smart to me. Using the character of the masses as a way to promote social good rather than trying to mold them into whatever westernized ideation. Seems pretty rooted in materialism to me!

    As you said though, such a thing gets shrouded in myth. The Iranians, the Palestinians, the Lebanese… portrayed as simultaneously magically resilient and well organized while also backwards in need of secularization. I dont have the words for this dualism but maybe you see what Im getting at.

    • Jabril [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      5·
      21時間前

      I dont have the words for this dualism but maybe you see what Im getting at.

      It reminds me of the noble savage trope, but perhaps there is a more apt comparison.

      I was getting at it in the news mega thread where Shia Islam was discussed but until people take time to study the history of Islam at large, as well as of Shia specifically, it is impossible to have an accurate analysis of the resistance movement. Shia history has revolutionary sentiment built into the lineage, it reminds me a lot of Juche, with generations of revolutionaries passing down a revolutionary history long before marx was around to describe dialectical materialist analysis. The conditions demanded a revolutionary sentiment and a revolutionary analysis and that is within the DNA of the movement, continuing on into today. Repression has prevented Marxism from being as popular in the Ummah as it once was and will be again but revolutionary and liberatory sentiment within Islam predates Marxism and can be repressed but never removed.

      • AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml
        4·
        8時間前

        I wrote a long reply but it got deleted when i changed tab on accident.

        Anyway short version about how people should learn about how the founding of Islam was basically a revolution of the proletariat and subaltern against slave owning land owning classes of the Quraish.

        How Islam was appealing because it guaranteed rights to people to the people who were slaves and protected women from horrible mistreatment of the time and forcibly redistributed wealth to the masses from the wealthy.

        how Ali (as) and Hassan (as) and Hussein (as) were killed because they fought against revisionist capitalists who wanted to undo the gains of the revolution. And how this is necessary to understand the role of why for instance Sayed Abdul-Malik al Houthi announced the mobilization to reunify Yemen on the day of Ashura.

        Abu Dharr was talking about capital accumulation over a thousand years before Marx!

        One cannot understand the resistance without understanding Karbala and one cannot understand Karbala without understanding at least a little basics of early Islamic History.

        Maybe with the terminology above, this can be legible to the marxists.