Author: Yahya Sseremba
Source: The Observer
I have hopefully made it clear that the modern state is the most violent, most divisive and most dictatorial form of political organization that humanity has ever invented.
Author: Yahya Sseremba
Source: The Observer
The modern state is known as the nation state.
This means that the state exists in the name of the nation. When modern international law recognizes the right to self-determination, “the self ” in the said self-determination is considered to be the nation.
Author: Yahya Sseremba
Source: The Observer
Anti-colonial thinkers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America have long grappled with the question: what is decolonization?
Author: Yahya Sseremba
Source: The Observer
Last week, we saw that the diffused character of pre-modern power allowed society to govern itself through society-based mechanisms like custom and religion.
Author : Yahya Sseremba
Source: The Observer
The modern state is largely—if not entirely—a legal phenomenon. The law, at least in theory, governs everything and everyone within the jurisdiction of the liberal state.
Author: Jacob Katumusiime
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Author: Yahya Sseremba
Source: The Observer
To contextualize the violence that is blindly blamed on religion, this and the next few articles will address two questions.
First, what is the relationship between politics and violence? Second, how does modern politics, especially the nature of the modern state, produce “religious violence”?
Author: Yahya Sseremba
Source: The Observer
Thinkers have long wondered why Christianity, Confucianism, Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism are called religions while Marxism, nationalism, liberalism, capitalism and football fanaticism are not seen as religions.
Author: Yahya Sseremba
Source: The Observer
One of the half-truths prevalent in dominant discourses is that the Europeans were driven by religion to kill each other until the secular nation-state emerged and saved them.
In line with this vulgar historical account, analysts explain the violence of Muslim actors today as the consequence of the reluctance of Islam to secularize.