CT250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Islamic Fundamentalism, Mujahideen, Social Liberalism
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Only under capitalism do we see military conflict global in scale. Capitalist competition results in attempts by capitalists to control large sections of the planet. Huge chunks of the world was divided between imperial cultures. They just decided that they should take control of part of the africa without asking. The constant drive for profit - capitalistic accumulation. Capitalist accumulation always seeks out foreign markets (wanting control over foreign territories to access these markets) Afghanstan had always been a secular state until the mujaheddin (islamic fundamentalist force) until the mujaheddin instituted the islamic republic of afghanistan in 1992. Us has poured billions of military aid to arm islamic fundamentalist forces since at least 1979 in order to defeat a left liberal government in afghanistan (p 245) Reagan government referred to islamic militants like osama bin laden as "heroes" Us government has long been cosy with authoritarian islamic regions (ex, saudi arabia) and.
