Friendly reminder that the best model for ISIS is the French Revolution, both in that people in other countries found it hard to...
Friendly reminder that the best model for ISIS is the French Revolution, both in that people in other countries found it hard to look past the terror and decapitations and that it’s really about replacing a mishmash of local systems of postfeudal personal rule with a coherent modern state rooted in popular identity.
quoms said: The Taliban are probably a closer analogy here; ISIS was modernising, but the fact that they were trying to do it across existing state borders with a force largely composed of international recruits throws it off a bit
yeah I was going to say let’s wait and see if the Taliban can construct a pan-Afghan nationalism first, that would be interesting.
Yeah honestly the Taliban strike me like Italian unification: just enough to hang together in a world of states