[Marxism] Alexander, Iskender, Gog & Magog, The Iron Wall (was: How Rome's endless "war on terror" ended up -- anahistorical t...)

["Lüko Willms" <lueko.willms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 13:54:07 EST, 
Shacht@xxxxxxx wrote 
under Subject "How Rome's endless 'war on terror' ended up -- an ahistorical 
t..."

> Well, what did the invaded peoples call Alexander? A freedom  fighter?

  Iskender, as Alexander is known among the invaded peoples, is remembered 
as something like that. Sort of a messias who's return is awaited for 
deliverance. 

    While browsing for these Iskender legends on Wikipedia, I found a legend 
according to which Iskender stopped the predatory peoples Yagog and Magog 
(Gog and Magog in European biblical language) by building a big iron wall 
across a valley. 

  This made me think that maybe Vladimir Yabotinsky alluded to this legend 
of Gog and Magog with the title "The Iron Wall" of his famous (rather 
infamous) 1923 article laying down the Zionist strategy of "the Arabs don't 
understand nothing but violence". 

  BTW, I interpret these legendary Yagog and Magog as representing the 
nomadic peoples which have been a recurring danger to crop planting 
agricultural peoples, a class conflict known from the Mongols threatening 
everybody on the Eurasian landmass from China to Western Europe, and 
continuing as the class conflict between Hutus and Tutsis in the Great Lakes 
region of Africa or Janjaweed and agriculturers in the Darfur region of Sudan. 


Comradely yours, 
Lüko Willms
Frankfurt, Germany
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visit http://www.mlwerke.de Marx, Engels, Luxemburg, Lenin, Trotzki in 
German

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