The reality of the Islamic resistance is so shrouded in mystery due to Islamophobia that it's impossible for many to see their accomplishments as nothing more than a coincidence, which is ironically an anti-materialist way of viewing the world.

[+] AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.