The Boko Haram anti-capitalist
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Žižek shares an encounter with a Boko Haram affiliate who claimed to be anti-capitalist, arguing that fighting women's rights is the local anti-colonial struggle against globalist ideology, illustrating how struggles can be assembled in contradictory ways.
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“I met in London two years ago somebody who didn't want to admit it but was close to Boko Haram. And he told me that he is fundamentally anti-capitalist, but that the way to fight global capitalism is to fight the concrete effects of neo-global ideology in his country... ruining the local indigenous family and so on structures through the ideology of women's rights.”
“they told me... keeping women under control is our forum of fighting colombism.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
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Murray Bookchin1John Langshaw Austin1Bruno Dostils1Robert Redford1Grigory Zinoviev1Walter Mignolo1Alberto Toscano1Lev Kamenev1
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Žižek shares an encounter with a Boko Haram affiliate who claimed to be anti-capitalist, arguing that fighting women's rights is the local anti-colonial struggle against globalist ideology, illustrating how struggles can be assembled in contradictory ways., illustrating assemblage,antagonism
Boko Haram members Žižek met at a London debate explained their control of women as a form of anti-colonialism: they experience the disintegration of traditional family structures as the destructive effect of globalization, and keeping women 'in their place' is their form of resistance., illustrating sexual difference as political battlefield,anti-colonialism framing of patriarchy