ARE THE FUNDAMENTALISTS ANTI-CAPITALIST?
Others have argued that the attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon are a response to US imperialism. Others go further, seeing the attacks as part of the international anti-capitalist “anti-globalisation” movement. This is not accurate. There are millions of poor Muslim people around the world who are forced by local robber-baron capitalist ruling classes to work themselves to death for a pittance of the wealth they generate for these bosses. The local elites in these countries manipulate religion, replacing any sense of the solidarity of humanity with a violent, xenophobic and conservative nationalism that divides and suppresses the working class. Those who preach this anti-worker message are misnamed by the media “Muslim fundamentalists.” The right-wing project of these local capitalist classes project is to establish repressive capitalist states that ban workers’ organisations, encourage racism, preach propaganda instead of teaching education, encourage leadership cults, repress women
