[Marxism] Achcar on Marxism and religion

["acpollack2@xxxxxxxx" <acpollack2@xxxxxxxx>]

Today zmag posted an excellent article by Gilbert Achcar on Marxism and 
religion, specifically how to approach Islam in general and its fundamentalist 
strain in particular. It's a great mixture of theoretical and historical 
references and application to the French hijab controversy as well as taking on 
the pandering of the British SWP to fundamentalism.

The only down side that I can see is the way he refers constantly to "British 
Trotskyists," and milder critiques of his closer French
Trotskyist comrades, leave one with the impression that he is a sideline 
academic critic of Trotskyism -- and that, although he says Trotsky had a 
better approach, he (Achcar) himself has no interest in building a party which 
would try to implement his positions practically.
See:
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=105&ItemID=7499,
earlier
at
http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/article.php3?id_article=622



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