Not defending new atheists btw

  • ComradeRat [he/him, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    read "Read Revolutionising Spirituality" by Brentlinger and "The Sufi and the Sickle" by Raza, good examinations of how spirituality actually DOES work with Marxism. Read Paa-Kwesi Heto and Mino's "(Dis)continuity of African Indigenous Knowledge" and Mays' An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States for examinations of indigenous knowledge in relation to diasporic groups (particularly African). Also read Aikenhead & Michell's Bridging Cultures, looks at the ways european science and indigenous science are SIMILAR and DIFFERENT and both USEFUL. Read Scott's Seeing Like a State to understand the theoretical failures of universalism, and then read Silltoe et al.'s Local Science vs. Global Science for even more concrete examinations of how universalism fails. Then read Kapoor's edited books, Against Colonization and Rural Dispossession and Research, Political Engagement and Dispossession for even more concrete (contemporary!) examples of its failures and how """"""""primitive""""""""" """""""""superstitious"""""""""" people are fighting back using their indigenous knowledges of plants, the land, soils, seeds, etc. Then you can come back and have hot takes. If you don't care enough to read about the complex and difficult topic that you don't need to understand for praxis, don't speak about it! :mao-aggro-shining: