any attempt at global organization risks reinscribing the colonial difference. And yet, as critical Muslims, critical Israelis, critical Americans, Europeans, and others, we cannot allow our identities to hold us apart. We recall Gramsci's insight that hegemony depends not on the absence of oppositional discourses, but, rather on the "the disorganization of dissent." We are indeed traveling a difficult road. But let us at least agree to eliminate false steps along the way. I shall discuss a few of these briefly...
-Susan Buck-Morss, "Can There Be a Global Left?," in Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left, p. 102
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