• Jabril [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    21 hours ago

    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 hours ago

      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.