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al purpose in the state 6 also the state would always prefer economically backward localities like sinaloa medellin dharavi etc to be controlled by gangsters than by revolutionaries gangsters can also do the dirty work of the state in these areas by killing potential leaders of the poor 7 finally spanish is the best language to abuse someone if you disagree with anything i said coma mierda leave a comment if not now when posted in society and culture by karthick rm on november 7 2018 since the beginning of 2017 i have been reading soviet dissident literature fictional works critical of the soviet union beginning with bulgakov s classic the master and margherita i exhausted my stock with platonov s happy moscow sometime back i thought i ll finish the year with fiction on nazism and anti semitism in europe i finished reading primo levi s novel if not now when yesterday this is a remarkable story of a band of jewish partisans who endure a cruel time levi not only captures the wartime brutalities of the nazis but also the everyday anti semitic prejudices of those who were fighting the nazis be it the russians the ukranians or the poles it is my understanding that anti semitism is the most fundamental form of western racism because it informs all other strains of racism in the west try explaining the paradox of jews getting accused by anti semites for being bankers and bolsheviks at the same time levi also brings out the unique suffering that the poles went through in the previous century but suffering alone is no condition for unity and coexistence as the tensions between the jewish partisans and the poles demonstrate yet the book is not a mere detailing of jewish suffering but of jewish resistance in a poignant sense it captures the zionist longing for a homeland of their own but there are also jews in the novel who did not buy this idea like a french jewish woman to whom paris not israel was homeland levi i believe was himself quite skeptical of an exclusivist zionism and that reflects in this novel as well leave a comment critical quest posted in society and culture by karthick rm on november 4 2018 critical quest books on my recent trip to chennai i purchased over 20 titles of critical quest 10 of which were given to me on hand by the publisher the irreplaceable g aloysius in my opinion critical quest is one of the most important publications out there for a critical activist pedagogy their titles cut across disciplines and cover a variety of themes the aim of the publisher i would say is to provide the readers a comprehensive and critical understanding of the how and why of so cio political change through concise and affordable books most of the books are around 40 80 pages and cost on an average about 50 rupees 50 pence 70 cents ideology theory nationalism identity caste gender religion philosophy are some of the topics covered and you get titles of meszaros fraser engels emerson horkheimer etc for nominal rates critical quest has an amazing selection of books by ambedkar my personal favorite is philosophy of hinduism which shows the boss at his incisive best some of them like conversion as emancipation are compilations from ambedkar s speeches and writings astutely brought under an apt title one of the first books of critical quest i purchased was ambedkar s annihilation of caste in 2009 priced at 40 i got it at a discount for 25 likewise i would argue that critical quest has brought out the best translations till date of some of the works of periyar women enslaved translation of pen yen adimaiyanaal periyar on buddhism periyar on islam periyar on village reconstruction etc i do hope they bring out more and more works of periyar in english critical quest also has published important interventions by contemporary indian authors key among them being the works of aloysius himself apart from his writings on brahminism social development regionalism etc aloysius work on iyothee thassar is published as three titles and they present the crucial role the thinker played in the dravidian imagination as well as in shaping the modern tamil dalit identity i strongly think that an endeavor like critical quest must be promoted not only through the purchase of their books but also through citations in our articles academic or otherwise at a time when books concerning human emancipation are marketed at a price much beyond the affordability of most of the human population that they are meant to reach the work that critical quest does is nothing short of heroic promoting them is not a favor it is gratitude leave a comment the kingdom of heaven posted in international by karthick rm on august 3 2018 jerusalem is far more gripping moving and intimate than most biographies of great personalities jerusalem emerges not just as a city but also as a dream a hope a utopia dystopia an ambition a cause a sentiment and a people already made and in the making in all probability never to be made the land saw great acts of faith and love combined with cynicism and savagery committed by saints and sinners and often one couldn t distinguish one from the other the best of men gave up their lives for jerusalem so that the worst of men may rule it genocide slavery rape intrigues conspiracies betrayals an overall debasement of the human spirit none of these were alien to this holy city celebrated by the three major religions of the world and coveted till date by their fanatic followers simon sebag montefiore author of a remarkable biography of stalin produces an account of jerusalem that is deep and rapid the pace of his writing is such that this 700 page book might as well have been 70 and each chapter of jerusalem is worthy of being made into a film this biography of jerusalem is also a partial but crucial history of the three abrahamic religions and their claims to the land enslaved by liberators and liberated by tyrants jerusalem is also a profound tragedy like none other a tragedy to which no one community can lay authentic claim to saladin in ridley scott s kingdom of heaven when asked what is jerusalem worth replies cryptically nothing everything a better question to ask would be who does jerusalem belong to no one everyone maybe that is the key to peace or something close to it leave a comment avengers black panther etc posted in society and culture by karthick rm on may 13 2018 this was a boring weekend so i decided to write this dont take it too seriously or maybe you can i dont know when i watched black panther i couldn t help but draw real life parallels the villain killmonger was steve biko thomas sankara and malcolm x combined of course he had to be killed the hero t challa on the other hand was mohammed bin salman benjamin netanyahu and shah reza pahlavi combined of course he had to be saved killmonger s wakanda would have been a nightmare to every imperialist power that bleeds the poor countries of the world in a thousand different ways t challa s wakanda is a wet dream come true for the american military industrial complex killmonger who believes in a global solidarity of the oppressed refuses to live in such a society and prefers an honorable death just bury me in the ocean with my ancestors that jumped from the ships cause they knew that death was better than bondage killmonger joins other great revolutionaries who were defeated killed by hollywood liberalism like magneto in x men bane in the dark knight rises and koba in dawn of the planet of the apes watching avengers infinity war it seemed fitting that thanos should avenge killmonger cannot thanos be read as a radical person of color who is battling white superheroes and their stooges of color and where killmonger was motivated by fighting against global oppression thanos is motivated by global ecological concerns academic joel hodge correctly points out that thanos is selfless he is seeking a higher good for the universe not himself and offering a systematic answer to the problem of sustainability on the other hand western liberals especially those suffering from an overdose of white guilt have been thoroughly disturbed by the film one has compared thanos to america and complains that america has been thanos and it got over the slaughter without much difficulty america has claimed that killing thousands of people irrespective of their age occupation status or personal storyline was for the greater good this is blatantly untrue america has always been selective in who it murders who it allows to be murdered where it promotes human rights and where it violates it a dictatorial north korea and a syria which is accused of war crimes are america s enemies but a sri lanka that committed genocide of tamils and turkey which indulges in ethnic cleansing of kurds are america s strategic partners america has maintained its financial order by augmenting fiscal political and ecological disorder in countries where it seeks to hold influence thanos on the other hand is truly indiscriminate in his attempts to bring balance to a world that abuses nature technology man and itself his thinking and actions defeated the american warriors and their allies on screen and baffle social justice warriors who watched it maybe thanos represents a posthuman politics that a few philosophers have been trying to theorize maybe he represents the nietzschean overman the one who is not afraid of the truth in its entirety and the one who does not resent taking terrible decisions thus casting terror in minds conditioned by a liberal human rights thinking maybe he just took gandhi s famous quote earth provides enough to satisfy every man s need but not every man s greed to heart and decided to act upon it a political reading of such films is not entirely fanciful consider captain america civil war where cap beats the daylights out of ironman the movie was prophetic the good captain is an ultra militarist chest thumping patriot with neanderthalic ideas of nationalism while ironman is an ultra militarist pro assassination cosmopolitan patriot with deep roots in the arms industry the political parallels are too obvious to miss trump defeated clinton in the us presidential elections a few months after the release of this film but remember at the end of the day iron man and captain america are on the same side so are those like the hulk who represents the destructive potential of an angry white involuntary celibate male nerd and t challa who as said before represents a third world monarchy that is a strategic partner for american interests thanos however is quite the outsider not just to the world but to the hegemonic liberal democratic ideology of the west what is more important is that every marvel movie till now has been about crisis ending the crisis and getting into a newer crisis in a loop much like the history of capitalism the multi billion dollar enterprise of tony stark that invests so much in defense technology and not in health education or sustainable aid to poor countries should be seen as a part of the crisis not a solution and including a diversity of characters changes nothing capitalism can function smoothly with any face and with any race when thanos eliminates half the world he is not killing humanity he is showing humanity a better path from the crisis ridden one that capitalism has forced upon the world the fact that he does not choose to preside over the new order even after sacrificing family and friends to achieve it but instead retires to solitude makes him the true heroic character of infinity war in the interests of the balance that he achieved the avengers should stay down that they won t is another story leave a comment the young karl marx posted in society and culture by karthick rm on may 9 2018 marx giving it to wilhelm weitling saw raoul peck s the young karl marx an excellent film which beautifully captures the roots of the marx engels friendship marx admired engels and decided to engage in a partnership with him for two reasons engels was empathetic towards the working class more importantly he understood how the industrial bourgeoisie functioned empathy to the bottom class alone does jackshit unless you understand and analyze how the top class functions in fact such isolated sentimentalism deprived of any critical understanding only ends up reproducing the rule of the top class through this basic marxist understanding you can also infer why brahmin scholars are more interested in doing assisting promoting dalit studies than brahmin studies in fact maintaining a focus on the former prevents an interrogation of the latter you wont dismantle caste by empathy academic or literary to the cheris or by glorifying them in cinema it is fashionable but it is also seasonal caste can be understood and hopefully dismantled only when the critical focus is turned on the power knowledge of the modern agraharas for that we need marx ambedkar and periyar leave a comment doctor zhivago posted in general by karthick rm on april 7 2018 finished reading doctor zhivago few days back it took me about 4 months to read the the first 100 pages and 4 days to finish the remaining approx 400 pages it is a surprisingly fast paced novel and like all such novels there is much sentimentality and a lack of critical substance though there was much politics around this novel securing paternak the nobel doctor zhivago is not a political nove l its a love story which is sometimes quite cheesy and often quite melodramatic and the revolution happens in the background in a somewhat reductive but still justifiable reading one could also say that paternak was dismissing the revolution because a couple in love both cheating on their marriages could not happily conclude their relationship soviet authorities were pissed because paternak did not appreciate the revolution but his true problem was that he did not understand the revolution leave a comment islamic feminism and its defenders a short comment posted in politics by karthick rm on march 25 2018 the brilliance of scholars and activists who defend forms of islamic feminism like the late saba mahmood sara ahmed and linda sarsour is their ability to conjure strawmen and maintain a sustained attack on them which to the uninformed might even seem as the articulation of a very legitimate grievance one of such strawmen is the western liberal feminist who does not understand the radical meaning of the veil just as they cannot understand the radical meaning of sati hindu feminists can also argue or the radical possibilities within islam the accusation is that such liberal feminists contribute to a climate of islamophobia the manner in which these islamic feminists frame things one would assume that there are only two groups critical of islam and islamism the liberals and the islamophobes and that both are hand in glove well dig up the archives of the guardian or the new york times from the past ten years and find out how many articles were written by these western liberal feminis...