I struggle to try and place the extreme Salafi Islam movements like ISIS and Boko Haram and their early progenitor al Queda in some context that applies to AE’s and alt economic ideas in general. They do represent or say they do the complete rejection of modernism which is ultimately economic and materialistic. While their means are certainly anathema to us all their goal sort of looks like what we expect the future to look like in material terms.
Of course we all hate the idea of living in a place ruled by religious extremists. I am starting to wonder if the ISIS of the world and their rejection of today’s world is ultimately a reaction to and/or a result of system breakdown, at the margin.
I’ve awaited the rise of of anarchists in the West but so far they have not appeared. In some sense the Salafi jihadis are anarchists and I am tending to think of them in those terms. Strip away the quasi religious underpinnings of al Qudea or Boko Haram and I see anarchism.
I’m not sure where to go with this train of thought. Just saying.
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