Radical Islamism and Totalitarian Ideology: a Comparison of Sayyid Qutb's Islamism with Marxism and National Socialism

Autor:	Hendrik Hansen, Peter Kainz
Rok vydání:	2007
Předmět:	Politics Utopia media_common.quotation_subject Modernity Good and evil Sociology Ideology Political philosophy Classless society Religious studies Qutb media_common
Zdroj:	Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions. 8:55-76
ISSN:	1743-9647 1469-0764
Popis:	The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the reasons for the strong anti‐western point of view in radical Islamism by comparing its political ideology to the western totalitarian ideologies, Marxism and National Socialism. The comparison is based on a reconstruction of the political theory of three major founders of these ideologies: Sayyid Qutb, Karl Marx and Adolf Hitler. Despite all differences, their arguments follow the same basic structure: the history of mankind is perceived as a life and death struggle between good and evil, in which those who are evil threaten the existence of mankind. Those who personify good have the mission to save humankind by ridding it from evil and by realising the utopia of the classless society, the natural race struggle or the purified society of followers of the true faith. The article concludes that radical Islamism is not a rejection of modernity from a pre‐modern or Islamic standpoint, but is rather an ideology which seduces its followers by criticisin...
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