Fascists

Islamic idealists such IS (formerly known as ISIS) are effectively fascists, especially considering their blurring on the concepts of state and religion (i.e. to them its all one and the same thing).

Leon Trotsky actually wrote a book entitled ‘Fascism, what it is and how to fight it?’ The presumption is that there is always a large group of disenfranchised people (workers in his world view) within a Fascist state that need to educated, armed and incentivated to fight back against the Fascists.

There must be large groups of people within Levant that are horribly disenfranchised by IS, such as the mild, the sane, the women, anyone without a beard and a mad and bad attitude. But how to get them organised and angry? Bombing the crap out of the country is probably counter-productive since it will just create an enemy of everyone when they become a victim.

What is needed is an alternative mad group of revolutionaries that believe in a separation of state and religion. In the old days these used to be called communists. But we have run out of sponsors for communism so maybe the US has to reconsider their aversion to the concept. Only communists have ever had the guts to fight Fascists from within.

I can’t see a mad group of US-style mildly-religious shopping mall consumers having a chance in hell in the Levant.

And if the US simply bombs them into submission the Fascists will just re-emerge, angrier than ever, when the US finally pull out of their occupation of the place. It’s a plan to nowhere.