Postmodernism Shaping Islamism (in Persian and in English)
Sam Ghandchi
Sam Ghandchi
http://www.ghandchi.com/304-PostmodernismEng.htm#postscript
Persian Version
http://www.ghandchi.com/304-Postmodernism.htm#postscript
I do not just oppose the post-modernists who live inside Iran.
My opposition is to post-modernism as a whole. The article by
Bisk is a good explanation of the difference of post-modernism
and futurism:
http://iranscope.ghandchi.com/Anthology/bisk.htm
Of course, as I noted in this article, the best critic of
post-modernism has been done by Daniel Bell himself.
Another point is that it seems to me there are many non-religious
technocrats inside IRI who have concluded that joining WTO, and
complete integration of Iran's economy in the global economy,
will practically put an end to the Islamic Republic. Thus these
friends want the end of economic sanctions without emphasizing
the human rights pre-conditions. As I have noted in this
article, this viewpoint is like the Chinese reformists who left
the Communist regime intact, and spent their efforts to expand
the economic relations of China with the West. In my opinion,
the chances of such viewpoint in Iran, to even end up in a result
like China, is not there, because the Islamists are not even as
logical as the Chinese Communists, and in practice the West may
work with the monarchists to overthrow IRI, and in such a
political change, only the intellectuals and technocrats of Iran
will end up as the allies of the regime, and will not impact the
political formation of future regime in Iran. This is exactly
what happened to the technocrats of Shah's time, who ignored the
Savak torture and killings and were hoping that by economic
progress of Iran, to achieve their desired political result of a
modern and democratic Iran, but in reality, they lost the
political leadership and became the supporters of Shah's regime,
and people's movement, which wanted the end to the existing
political conditions, chose the leadership of the return to Islam
program of Khomeini. Today I hope a similar mistake of secular
forces, does not cause the return of monarchy nostalgia, to
become people's alternative to the despotic political reality. I
have already written enough about the incompatibility of the
so-called "Islamic Democracy" with pluralism, and there is no
need to repeat it here again:
http://www.ghandchi.com/308-IslamicDemocracy-plus.htm
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