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To: LindyBill who wrote (68658)9/9/2004 9:35:50 PM
From: skinowski  Read Replies (2) of 793597
 
non-state actors looking to hijack societies from globalization's creeping embrace so they can disconnect those societies from the global grid and have their way with the captive population. Increasingly, the most motivated non-state actors will employ terrorism to scare off advanced states from caring about those societies they seek to hijack from history. That's basically the al–Qaeda's game, and if it reminds you of a similar movement of a century earlier (Vladimir Lenin's Bolsheviks), then you were paying attention in history class.

Like Lenin, Osama bin Laden has proven himself a capable leader of a transnational terrorist movement, and like Lenin, bin Laden seeks to break off a huge chunk of humanity (a billion Mulsims living in predominately Islamic societies) from the Western-dominated global economy so as to be able to lord over them in their collective pursuit of a "good life" divorced from all that Westoxification imposed by globalization's advance.

Absolutely. The similarities between today's Al Qaedistas and international Marxist (later Leninist) "revolutionary" movements of the 19-20th centuries are rather obvious. Glad to see I'm not the only one talking about it. One group strived to build a Marxist paradise, the other - to talibanize much the world into a theocratic Caliphate.
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