FourthGenerationWarVsNeoFeudalism

A lot of FourthGenerationWar people are catching on to the idea that non-state actors such as GlobalGuerrillas and gangs (ThirdGenerationGangs) are a return to feudalism.

• http://www.cominganarchy.com/archives/2006/05/19/forget-the-gap-try-the-middle-ages/

• http://www.cominganarchy.com/archives/2006/05/20/neo-medievalism-ii

I don't entirely buy it. As I say on WorkArticulationTopologies, the myth of the hierarchy or feudalism is the permanence of the hierarchy. These new networks of non-state actors, co-ordinated via a BazaarOfViolence are not pure feudal. Nevertheless, what may be arriving is similar to my idea of InformationalistReductionOfCapitalism a similar informationalist reduction of feudalism.

To the extent that AlQaeda are NeoMedievalism they are not fascist.