[#202] METAPARAPOLITICS: AN INTERVENTION, Part 3: Clifford Geertz and Raghavan Iyer (Patreon)

In part 3 of their Metaparapolitics intervention, Dimitri and Khalid dive into two 20th century academic suslords who both wielded the term “parapolitics” in different but equally questionable ways: anthropologist Clifford Geertz and Michael Aquino’s intellectual mentor, Raghavan Iyer.

Topics include: Geertz invoking “parapolitics” to obscure the role of Certain Invisible American hands during the 1965 Indonesian genocide, parallels with bullshit “ancient hatred” historiographies about the fall of Yugoslavia, interlocks between Geertz and Obama’s sus Ford Foundation anthropologist mother, diving into Raghavan Iyer’s “Parapolitics: Toward The City of Man”, backhanded compliments of Marx and Lenin, Iyer’s Theosophist essays about Gandhi, and his convenient reification of Ghandian “non-violent” political resistance as the ultimate virtue (contra the Bolsheviks who did a Violence and thus are bad)…