I cannot pretend to be any kind of expert on the social structure and
class
dynamics of the Muslim countries, but it seems to me "Bin Ladenism" is
the
ideological expression of social classes driven to despair and madness
by
the ruthless, suffocating, crushing weight of that system. That there
would
be a response by these (and other social classes in the Islamic world)
to
imperialism was inevitable. But that this response to imperialism has
found
an extremely reactionary social and political program, and an ideology
that
befits such a program, is due to the failures of the working class
movement
in the 20th Century, not just in the advanced capitalist countries
but also
in the Soviet Union.
I disagree. Bin Ladenism exploits the non-capitalistic
social classes. It is
as much an expression against imperialism as Pat Robertson or Jerry
Falwell's movements.