The Caucasus wars is fundamentally
over control of oil nothing to do with fighting medievalism.
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That much of what LP writes is almost correct. It is fundamentally over
control of the transport of oil, and for that reason alone the secession
of Chechnya, its welcoming of Islamic fundamentalists, is another aspect
of capital's attack on remnants of the Soviet Union, and should be
opposed. Moreover, it is clear, from Afghanistan, and Iraq, Nigeria,
that Islamic reaction, ("medievalism" is not really a proper application
of the term, since during the medieval conflicts, those forces of
Islamic culture were surely more advanced, modern, enlightened than the
European medievalists), has carried capitalism's water in battling
workers' struggles.
dms
