Empire recruits native intellectuals to demolish local cultures that resist global capitalism

Evidence

The home-grown comprador intellectuals and the native informers imported from the farthest corners of the empire, white or whitewashed, have joined forces with capital, very much like the mercenary armies that the empire recruits to fight its wars; it is no accident that both Ajami and Nafisi have worked for Paul Wolfowitz or that Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr and Ray Takeyh have taught at US military colleges. The task of the globalized comprador intellectual is quite clear. The empire needs to destroy all communities and cultures that may be the potential sites of resistance to what Max Weber called “predatory capitalism” and its corresponding planetary (homogenized) culture. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 326

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth verifying the specific career ties cited: Ajami and Nafisi with Wolfowitz, Nasr and Takeyh at US military colleges.

Related

• Globalization erases the center-periphery distinction defining comprador intellectuals (similarity 0.83)
• Comprador intellectuals now serve power regardless of birthplace or color (similarity 0.80)
• Exiled intellectuals can become native informers who manufacture consent for empire (similarity 0.79)
• Comprador intellectuals reaccredit discredited colonial knowledge systems (similarity 0.79)
• Empires recruit native intellectuals to season their self-justifying narratives (similarity 0.79)
• Native informer intellectuals have replaced Orientalists in serving imperial capital (similarity 0.78)