Re: [Marxism] Elif Shafak

[Yavuz Tuyloglu <yavuztuyloglu@xxxxxxxxx>]

ANIL GÖKPEK wrote:
The danger for other 'undercurrents which are ignored' is being labeled by one 
of these groups as nationalist/xenophobic or by other as cosmopolitan/Sufi.
[...]
To summarize the ideas above and as a conclusion let me ask this:
How can one be a novelist while being blindfolded?

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  I can only agree with these points. It seems to me that "Shafak" and bunch of 
other 'culturally-sensitive' intellectuals regard this putative dichotomy 
between nationalism and sufism as a safe heaven to defer from bringing forth 
analysis which may require further variables. They readily accept these 
undercurrents as if they are 'real' things, but not socially constructed and 
historically conditioned. So we are told that Turkey always sat on this clash. 
What follows is to disregard any other category that does not fit into the big 
picture. I wonder where the Turkish left or Islamists is habitating in the 
Turkey of nationalist vs. Sufis.


                
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