The Clash Of Fundamentalisms by Tariq Ali
Crusades, Jihads and Modernity
A polemical analysis that traces how religious and political fundamentalisms—most notably militant Islamist movements and reactionary strains in the West—have grown as responses to modernity, colonialism, neoliberal capitalism and aggressive Western foreign policy; it draws parallels between their methods and appeals, shows how imperial interventions and economic dislocation feed authoritarian, exclusionary ideologies, and argues that these currents undermine secular, democratic politics while exploiting popular grievances, concluding that a left-wing, anti-imperialist and secular alternative is necessary to counter both religious reaction and neoliberal hegemony.
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- 2002
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- British
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- English
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