Browsing by Author "Azeri S."

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The july 15 coup attempt in Turkey: The erdogan–gulen confrontation and the fall of ‘moderate’ political islam
(Routledge, 2016) Azeri S.
The failed coup attempt on 15 July 2016 in Turkey was not a continuation of the Turkish military’s ‘tradition’ of seizing power in the name of restoring ‘order’ and ‘national unity’. Rather, it was the climax of a series of former confrontations between the two formerly-allied factions of ‘moderate’ political Islam—the Erdogan–AKP administration and The Fethullah Gulen’s ‘Service Movement’. Neither the coup attempt nor Erdogan’s counter-attacks were made from a position of power. Rather, the existing confrontation is rooted in political Islam’s provisional structure as the state of bourgeoisie in the periods of crises and its inappropriateness for metamorphosing into an ‘ordinary’ bourgeois state. This inappropriateness is based on the political Islamic state’s ‘imperfection’. The inner contradiction of the political Islamic state is intensified owing to the pressure of the masses from below and the international economic and political-administrative crises of the international bourgeoisie, which yields a power struggle between the regional and international competing bourgeois factions. The coup attempt and the consequent events are evidence of the decline and the eventual fall of ‘moderate’ political Islam in Turkey. © 2016 Critique.
The state of emergency, class struggle, and the state: Political islam at the stage of collapse
(Routledge, 2017) Azeri S.
Apparently political Islam, particularly its Erdoganist ‘moderate’ version, has dominated Turkey since 2002 and it seems that it has been successful in eliminating its critiques and consolidating itself as the national and international bourgeoisie’s desirable state. This article, to the contrary, aims at showing that political Islam in Turkey is at the stage of collapse owing to specific local and international factors, changes in power balances, the intensification of the class struggle and the essential properties of so-called ‘moderate’ political Islamic movement. © 2017 Critique.
Value and Production of Knowledge: How Science is Subsumed to Capital
(Routledge, 2016) Azeri S.
One of the differences between knowledge-production activity of Modern science and pre-Modern science and other systems of belief is that the former attributes a universal character to its product. This unique aspect of modern scientific activity is related to its conceptuality. Modern natural science develops in response to the social needs that are determined by the continuous demand of capital for self-valorisation. The conceptual structure of modern natural sciences is the consequence of sciences' subsumption to capital and their realisation through the mediation of abstract labour. The universality of scientific knowledge is the expression of this mediation. © 2016 Critique.