Re: How Europe viewed the Mahdi revolt

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 17:55:02 -0500, Louis Proyect wrote:
>In Europe at this time, and especially in
>England, there was a  general disposition to
>regard the Mahdist state as an implacable  evil
>--as evil as ever Lenin's Bolshevism was
>regarded in the  nineteen-twenties or Hitler's
>Nazism or Mussolini's Fascism in the  nineteen
>-thirties and nineteen-forties. Mahdism, of

I neglected to mention that this comes from Alan Moorehead's useful 
if Eurocentric (and aptly named?) "The White Nile".

-- 
Louis Proyect, lnp3@panix.com on 11/09/2001

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