Drewk writes: >In any case, it is an important point that fundamentalism is at least partly a modern, "Western" import, and not -- contrary to common portrayal -- the traditional, indigenous ideology of the people. <
It's true that the fundies learn from each other. Interestingly, in Nolte's otherwise useless book on fascism, he indicates that the European fascists of the 1930s learned from each other, even though (officially) they were French nationalists, Italian nationalists, etc.
My reading suggests that fundamentalism is a response to capitalist modernization, the "destructive creation" that capitalism imposes on communities and ways of life (including primitive accumulation).
JD
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