أنا من أمريكا. لكن الآن أنا أسكن في المملكة العربية السعودية. أدّرس اللغة الانكليزية هنا. الجميع يعرفون السعودية بلد غني. لكنهم ربما لا يعرفون أن المجتمع السعودي ممتلئ بالمتناقضات الاجتماعية. في الواقع أن الغنى يسبب متناقضات في المجتمع السعودي. و هذه مقالات قصيرة سوف أحدثكم عن بعض منها.
مثلاً الأغلبية من السعوديين كسالي جداً. عندما أقول هذا أنا لست متكبر.لكن لو قارنا طالب اللغة الانكليزية في شرق آسيا وبين طالب لغة أجنبية من أمريكا ثم طالب السعودية نجد أن طالب السعودية كسلان جدّا. عند تعلّم اللغة الأجنبية يحتاج الطالب إلى حافز. للأسف نجد أن السبب الرئيسي للالتحاق بالجامعات لدي كثير من الطلاب السعوديين هو لأن حكومة السعودية تدفع لهم مبالغ مالية شهرية طيلة فترة الدراسة.
متناقض آخر في المجتمع السعودي عن الأجانب والعمل. عموماً نجد أن السعوديون لا يحبون الأجانب. لكنهم أيضاً لا يريدوا أن يعملوا بأنفسهم.
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The last contradiction in Saudi society is the most interesting. Saudis do not like foreigners. But they also do not want to serve themselves.
So what is one to do? What is a Marxist reading of Saudi society?
well, this is a huge-ass question, especially for somebody who has not been reading a whole lot of Marxism in recent years. I apprectiate the question though, and will say this. Saudi is a feudal society with modernity interspersed around its edges. The way relationships to authority work show this. It is not about how you perform here but rather about who you know and asking who you know who happens to be in a postion of power to open doors for you. This causes incompetence and is one way to understand the slowness that you see here with regard to develpments in Women being able to participate in Saudi society. As long as competence is downplayed and power relationships are put front and center, women and foreigners do not have a chance. the modernity at the edges of society which creeps furhter in year by year insures that the posture of incompetence both becomes harder to play yet stays in place and renews its shape and has to renegotiate its conditions.
Ah, that's right. A largely feudal society, but not -- as far as I know -- agrarian, so there's one difference, which is to say Saudi is not medieval but modern (despite western insistences that it just may well be medieval in its rising forms of fundementalism). It's feudal in its social arrangements, but it has an industrial core: oil production, and perhaps building projects and whatever else I'm missing. Maybe this is the Marxian contradiction: "The contrast between the fabulous natural resources and the poverty of ordinary people, has led to a ferment of discontent in Saudi Arabia." Source, and there may be points of this with which you disagree: http://tinyurl.com/23328y
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