Message from @nagarjuna
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they didn't just want to kill people, they wanted to inflict a "symbolic wound"
in the gift economy, the challenge is always to find a better gift to give back
That's the presumption the Western Liberal media would like us to believe, but okay
oh ok you're referring to inside job theories?
I'd say the terrorists were moreso acting out of raw opportunism
oh ok
I don't see Islam being the primary driving factor
I agree
I see it as a smaller one
Baudrilalrd points out that if islam here hegemonic there would be terrorism against islam
global power is like a gift, you can get a gift you don't want, because "the given" is the world it has made
Hegemonic in regards to what?
Hegemonic globally?
in marxist terms the spread of the commodity system
as the outcome of Western imperialism
Well, certain Islamic countries do practice Imperialism
Islam would have suffer terribly a huge amount of revolts.
Saudi Arabia being a prime example
Not just terrorism. Their culture is practically quite contrary to the used lives of people under secular/reformed Christianity.
so has this system lmao but if muslims invented the maxim gun first it would not have hattered
Our culture is different too. We had guns fam
I'm not sure what you're trying to imply
You stated that if Islam was hegemonic, terrorism would occur against it
global hegemony is like batman. when batman shows up, the villains all come out to challenge him
I believe he hypothetical placed that if Islam was majority of the world's belief
There would be terrorism against it.
Ok
when something dominates the world system, then resistance seeps from all sectors
yes yes hypothetical
It would be natural to have such anti-thesis because it still has conflicting elements left unresolved.
Does this not occur on a smaller scale
Dialectically.
It does but suppose the world becomes subjugated under Islam.
No
I need contemporary empirics
absolutely, but muslims can still blame a larger power
Up to nagarjuna
If it cannot occur non-globally, I would say that is a serious point to discuss
9/11 was great for the US because then the US gets to claim its a victim, which is rich for the most powerful country ever
I am aware of the existence of the petrodollar