-you can't make a simple equation Lenin=Marx=Left.
Yes you can, Tek. The problem is you and John, etc, don't like that logic.
they are pointing out (correctly) that violent extremist movements have a lot in common with each other in ways that are not characterized easily by a simple left/right split.
The Authors make it quite obvious that this movement came right out of Marxism.
as much a fascist movement as anything else
You and John, etc, see "fascist" as right, I see it at left. But, we have been down this road on this thread before, and nobody changed their mind as a result of the discussion.
The main point I see out of the article, and I linked the main points from it together in a earlier post, is that the authors have proven that these terrorists are a bunch of leftist thugs disguised behind a Muslim appearance. The Government they set up in Iran and Afghanistan is and was a totalitarian regime, that, when stripped of the Religious front, is no different than any other collectivist "Peoples State" of the last century. |
