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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:05:19 +1100
From: "dr.woooo" <dr.woooo-AT-nomasters.org>
Subject: [postanarchism] Re: Amory Starr Weighing in on Religious Nationalism Discussion



i returned the book to the library ages ago so cant find a quote or cant back 
an arguement otherwise, but i took the reflection on 'relnat'to be a bit 
uncritical and i did think the preference for small business against 
globalisation was silly if not dangerous and reactionary. small business often 
pay less and are more difficult to organise because of size and vulnerability.

i havent been able to keep up with the recent discussions, looks lively and 
looking forward to getting to it.



Quoting "J.M. Adams" <ringfingers-AT-yahoo.com>:

> Now that this subject matter has resurfaced I thought
> I would forward on email that Amory Starr sent to me
> regarding the discussion that we were having a while
> back about the way she refers to religious nationalism
> as possibly liberatory in some contexts in her book
> "Naming the Enemy: Anticorporate Movements Confront
> Globalization". Here is what she said:
> 
> 
> 
> "re: religious nationalism's place in naming the enemy
>  
> ok, this just in from walden bello p 57 in the new
> edited volume by tom mertes (a movement of movements,
> zed 2004) 
>  
> 'Q: Could you describe the activities of Focus [on the
> Global South]?
>  
> A: ...Finally, we look at the role of ideologies...We
> wanted to adopt a more critical perspective on the
> various aspects of Islamic revivalism. Bearing in mind
> its many retrograde elements, we still need to ask:
> why has it been in the forefront of the struggle
> against the United States?...' 
>  
>  
> same as my point...inclusion of relnat moves in the
> book was not in any way to defend or prefer or to say
> that in any way that these movements are satisfactory
> to the left, but simply to say here is another
> method/mode through which globalization is being
> confronted, through which boundaries against
> re-colonization/imperialism/corporate globalization
> are being conceived and defended...   i was attempting
> to make an exhaustive list, not to select the ones i
> liked..."  
> 
> 
> 
> ====> "“It does not matter how many people chose moral duty over the rationality of
> self-preservation - what does matter is that some did. Evil is not
> all-powerful. It can be resisted. The testimony of the few who did resist
> shatters the authority of the logic of self-preservation. It shows it for
> what it is in the end - a choice." 
> 
> - Zygmunt Bauman, 'Modernity and the Holocaust'
> 
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