PSM vs. PAS ...
"issue vs. non-issue"
Is a Marxist-Muslim possible? One is a methodology, the other an ideology ... What is wrong with hybridity? ... ahhh .. our leaders have not read enough on this ... I can assure you ...
socialism,
marxism,
leninism,
maoism,
deng xiopingism,
reaganism,
thatcherism,
javanese marhaenism,
liberalism,
social-democraticism,
islamism,
jihadism,
humanism ..
lady gaga-ism
crypto-crony-capitalism
These are merely constructs .. aren't they? Don't fight over these. Be close to the people and to realism -- ar
"issue vs. non-issue"
Is a Marxist-Muslim possible? One is a methodology, the other an ideology ... What is wrong with hybridity? ... ahhh .. our leaders have not read enough on this ... I can assure you ...
socialism,
marxism,
leninism,
maoism,
deng xiopingism,
reaganism,
thatcherism,
javanese marhaenism,
liberalism,
social-democraticism,
islamism,
jihadism,
humanism ..
lady gaga-ism
crypto-crony-capitalism
These are merely constructs .. aren't they? Don't fight over these. Be close to the people and to realism -- ar
PSM vs. PAS #2:
"explore marxism, not expunge it!"
After moe than 50 years of Independence, we still cannot tell the difference between communism, Marxism, socialism or anarchism. We are well versed in the foundations of crypto-corporate-cybernetic-cr
We are good at talking about ‘global economics’ and the ‘glocalisation’ of Wall Street and Silicon Valley industries. What we think profitable at the global market we import into our local economies, and what we see profitable in our country, we force our farmers and labourers to produce for the global economies.
We then complain about the evils of globalisation without realising that the big capitalists amongst us are the new globalisers of our own labour. At a time when we are exploring the possibilities of becoming a ‘bio-technologised nation’ (whatever that means to the padi planter/farmer in Changlung, Kedah or Tambun Tulang in Perlis), we still have not explored the meaning of ideas we ‘fear’. We still equate communism with armed struggle - just like some Western media conglomerate's tendency of equating Islam with terrorism, and many other concept/word associations that are not accurate and dangerously misleading.
We need to explore the story behind the armed struggle to understand the ideology behind the movement. We might denounce the atrocities of the communist insurgents/Malayan co-freedom fighters, but we must also recognise the intellectual value and power of the Marxist critiques of society as a legitimate, systematic, liberating, humanising and praxical (the translation of theory to practice) body of knowledge that has evolved into an organic discipline itself.
One must engage in a systematic study of Marxism in order to be well-equipped with the understanding of what ‘national development’ means. Without this knowledge, we will forever colonise ourselves by importing more and more members of international advisory panel of any national project we blindly embark upon.
We are not only fearing knowledge, but fearing the power of our ignorance.
"explore marxism, not expunge it!"
After moe than 50 years of Independence, we still cannot tell the difference between communism, Marxism, socialism or anarchism. We are well versed in the foundations of crypto-corporate-cybernetic-cr
We are good at talking about ‘global economics’ and the ‘glocalisation’ of Wall Street and Silicon Valley industries. What we think profitable at the global market we import into our local economies, and what we see profitable in our country, we force our farmers and labourers to produce for the global economies.
We then complain about the evils of globalisation without realising that the big capitalists amongst us are the new globalisers of our own labour. At a time when we are exploring the possibilities of becoming a ‘bio-technologised nation’ (whatever that means to the padi planter/farmer in Changlung, Kedah or Tambun Tulang in Perlis), we still have not explored the meaning of ideas we ‘fear’. We still equate communism with armed struggle - just like some Western media conglomerate's tendency of equating Islam with terrorism, and many other concept/word associations that are not accurate and dangerously misleading.
We need to explore the story behind the armed struggle to understand the ideology behind the movement. We might denounce the atrocities of the communist insurgents/Malayan co-freedom fighters, but we must also recognise the intellectual value and power of the Marxist critiques of society as a legitimate, systematic, liberating, humanising and praxical (the translation of theory to practice) body of knowledge that has evolved into an organic discipline itself.
One must engage in a systematic study of Marxism in order to be well-equipped with the understanding of what ‘national development’ means. Without this knowledge, we will forever colonise ourselves by importing more and more members of international advisory panel of any national project we blindly embark upon.
We are not only fearing knowledge, but fearing the power of our ignorance.
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