[anniegetyourgun]

Wooo--eeee - Waller was on fire when he did this one! My computer was smokin' as I read it....

[Molly Pitcher]

WOWzers!! Much to digest here!

[The Grammarian]

I'm amazed that there's more of a connection between these Islamist terrorists and our good ol' leftist pals than I thought -- I thought that it was primarily the leftists' fault to begin with, but, wow!

This proves it, postmodernism is evil (as if we didn't know that already).

TG

[ramdalesh]

Great paper. I don't know anything about Hiedegger, and now finally have a resean to find out more.

Marx and Lenin both believed that the communist revolution must be international in order to survive. If Al Queda truly is the first international communist regime/revolution then Lenin and Marx would most likely predict World Socialism as a result of their uprising.

Go here On Suicide by Karl Marx, to further indulge the topic of European Leftism influencing Al Queda idealogy.

[Shermy]

Excellent. Great find.

He should consider adding Said-ian anti-Orientalism and its effects.

[Lexington Green]

Kill a commie for mommy... bad ideas are always an enemy

[Fiddlstix]

Good Post!
Thank You!

[XBob]

1- WOW - "Heavily influenced by Heidegger and Sartre, Foucault was typical of postmodernist socialists in having neither concrete political aims nor the slightest interest in tangible economic grievances as motives for revolution. To him, the appeal of revolution was aesthetic and voyeuristic: "a violence, an intensity, an utterly remarkable passion." For Foucault as for Fanon, Hezbollah, and the rest down to Osama, the purpose of violence is not to relieve poverty or adjust borders. Violence is an end in itself. Foucault exalts it as "the craving, the taste, the capacity, the possibility of an absolute sacrifice." In this, he is at one with Osama's followers, who claim to love death while the Americans "love Coca-Cola." "

[Republican_Strategist]

Resource: Clinton's Bin Laden GATE - Mother of all Scandals

[Hugh Akston]

ping a ding ding

[truth_seeker]

At the end of all of the "iltellectual" investigation, it is simple. The reasons for bin Laden's madness are Karl Marx and Mohammed, founder of Islam.

[stands2reason]

Great find, Poke. I was wondering why obl had the Marxist claptrap down pat. Now it's obvious why the university neomarxists are playing the part of "pacifists" again. They ARE on obl's side. They ARE seditious. They ARE traitors. Just like the "pacifists" during the Vietnam War. They only want one side "pacified." Our side.

[Number_Cruncher]

Now we see why the Left loves the Taliban. They are soulmates.

[annalex]

The Left is the Left is the Left. Whether they are traditionalist like the ayatollahs, or modernist like Mao or the French, is of secondary importance. They are united in the fundamental belief in the primacy of the collective over the individual, from which one gets the lust for violence and death worship.

[livius]

Excellent article. I have frequently thought in the last few weeks that it would not be surprising to see leftists begin to convert to Islam. It has everything they like: authoritarianism, irrationality, violence, and a heavily collectivist bent.

Interestingly enough, when the Spanish police broke up an al-Qaeda cell in Spain last week, the leader was found to be a Spaniard who had converted to Islam. His pre-Muslim background? Active in HB, the political wing of the Marxist Basque-separatist terrorist group ETA. That same day, I read about Hugo Chavez, the left wing dictator of Venezuela, praising bin Laden.

The doors between Marxism and Islam, in other words, open both ways, and I think the result is going to be an unbelievably dangerous and violent force. What makes it even worse is that several generations of American intellectuals, mentally deconstructed out of any ability to have a coherent thought, will be able to offer no leadership or resistence. (But then, I guess I really didn't expect much out of them anyway.)

Very thought provoking article, and a very good analysis.

[Cicero]

It's a mystery to me how postmodernist intellectuals in our universities can worship people like Nietzsche, Heiddeger, Foucault, and Paul De Man, not to speak of the recent vogue for the Marquis de Sade. Ideas have consequences.

[headsonpikes]

1968.

So the American "New Left" and the Arab "Al Qaeda" are twins separated at birth!

That makes a kind of black-hearted sense.

[ramdalesh]

Here Pok/Everybody take a look at McArthyism, Does History Repeat Itself?

Bill Clinton. You are Surreal!

[beckett]

Roger Kimball smashes Hardt and Negri's Empire to smithereens in an article in The New Criterion, which can be found HERE.

[SauronOfMordor]

I like his analysis