[americandream]

The Arab Revolutions set the stage for the next phase of capital's expansion (after China) with free market access to Arab oil and the rise of a true post feudal bourgeoisie. Get yourselves ready for another boom to rival the one that has just run out of steam as this region explodes into a flurry of intense energy development as the Islamists and kleptocrats retreat. Iran had better be prepared for similar upheavals as Ahmadinejad's days are numbered.

Islam is finished.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/ ... 0220110306

[Cloud9]

I am sure that's what the Crusaders thought too.

[americandream]

I am sure that's what the Crusaders thought too.

Religion is a normative force. What we would like to do to others by virtue of a set of artificial beliefs. Social economy however is an objective reality. What we have become by virtue of material conditions. The latter must always prevail over the former and always has which accounts for why each ages dominant theme has always been the underlying material imperatives. In fact, when one scrapes away the normative elements of religion, one finds and underlying material reality which is what sums up Christianity and Islam and all the rest as they wax and wane before the forces of dialecticism.